No appointment needed for people age 50 and older for COVID-19 vaccine at city sites
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New Yorkers who are 50 and older are now able to walk into city-run vaccine sites and get the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine without an appointment, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Saturday. (Staten Island Advance/Paul Liotta)
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Previously, walk-in appointments were exclusively for New Yorkers age 75 and older.
“Our priority for the next few months is clear: we need to vaccinate as many New Yorkers as possible,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “By making it easier for New Yorkers 50 and older to get vaccinated, we are on our way to fully vaccinating five million New Yorkers by June.”
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A vaccine command center will be set up Monday at 253 Broadway, across from City Hall, to track everything vaccine-related, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday.
The vaccine command center will work with every part of the city’s government, including NYCHA, the Department of Education, Health + Hospitals, and other city agencies.