As New York State again expands the list of those eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente is encouraging local residents who can get inoculated to roll up their sleeves and do so.
Those eligible to get the vaccine further opened on Monday to now include first responders, like fire fighters, police officers, investigators, corrections officers and other law enforcement, along with local teachers, public transit employees, and those 75 and older (For a detailed list, see below).
Picente says a POD (Point of Distribution)
is up and running at Mohawk Valley Community College s Jorgensen Center on the Utica campus - open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The county received some 3,000 doses last week and is due to receive another 1,300 on Tuesday, he said. As of this posting, a few appointments remained open for this week, but are filling up quickly.
they re being hit by it. we also knew before this started that there would be something of a green zone back here. by that, i mean agencies that would considered essential so they re not cut back as much. airports and customered and border patrol. the mail service, things like that. the real area of concern you re hearing so much talk about is this, the yellow zone here, where there are cuts of people maybe weren t thinking of or didn t expect so much. for example, the national security agency, the cia and other intelligence forces. in some areas we re hearing there are 70% reductions. 70% in terms of civilian staff. that has a potential impact on diplomatic missions, military missions overseas. a lot of concern over that on capitol hill. if you need to hire somebody, you need to check on immigration status, so you may use the e-verify. it s not working now so you can t check on that that way. meat inspections by the department of agriculture are going on now as they normally would, bu