The New York authorities launched an initiative on Wednesday to encourage the New Yorkers from between 12 and 17 years what do i know vaccinate against covid-19, offering 50 scholarships for centers public university students that will be raffled among those who get the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, the only one approved to date in USA for people in this age range.
The scholarship will cover the four years of tuition, university accommodation Y Cost of materials in the universities state publicannounced the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
Although the amount of scholarships, the website of the State University of New York (SUNY) specifies that the amount of one year of tuition, university accommodation, materials and transport amounts to about $ 25,000, so a 4-year scholarship would be worth about 100,000 dollars.
In total, they will be raffled 10 weekly scholarships during the next five weeks among the people who receive the first puncture of the vacuna, as part of an initiative called: “Get a dose to build your future “.
According to the head of the Department of Health, Dave Chokshi, so far more than 50,000 young people Come in 12 and 15 years have been vaccinated in the state, where more than 50% of the Adults they are already totally immunized.
On New York se began to vaccinate minors between 12 and 15 years with the pharmacist’s vaccine Pfizer on May 12.
This initiative joins many others launched by the state and local authorities in the last days.
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Last week, Cuomo said they will be distributed in the vaccination centersn lottery tickets with prizes of up to 5 million dollars.
The mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, announced Tuesday that it will deploy temporary vaccination centers in Beaches and in the most popular places of the summer from next weekend, which marks the unofficial start of the summer activities with the festivities of the Memorial Day.
The authorities thus try to promote the vaccinations in the state of New York, dWherever the rate of injections has dropped more than 40%, from 216,000 daily doses in mid-April to almost 124,000 today. EFE
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