Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday that he expects one million doses of the vaccine to be administered in January. coronavirus continuing with health workers. The idea is that this week alone, more than 100,000 vaccines will be administered and that at the end of the month 400,000 thousand vaccines will be administered per week.
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To make that possible, de Blasio says he needs the federal government to increase the number of vaccines that are allocated for New York City and to be flexible with the rules of which group of people can be vaccinated.
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According to the city’s health commissioner, David Chokshi, the idea is to increase the vaccination centers from 125 that exist today to 250 by the end of the month. And many of these centers begin operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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This week the city will deploy two mobile clinics, five vaccination centers within NYC Health + Hospitals clinics and three vaccination centers in schools that will open Sunday, January 10.
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The three vaccination centers in schools will be at the Bushwick School facility at 400 Irving Avenue in Brooklyn, another at Hillcrest High School at 160-05 Highland Avenue in Queens, and the last one at the south of The Bronx at 701 St. Ann’s Avenue.
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If the city obtains permission from the federal government as of January 4, personnel from the tracking teams, health workers who work with outpatient surgeries, dentists, physical therapists, employees of specialized clinics, and medical personnel may be vaccinated. of the NYPD. Starting on January 11, health workers who work in private homes, hospice workers and more employees of nursing homes will be able to be vaccinated.
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