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Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center tries to convince vaccine hesitant residents to get vaccinated
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Apr 18, 2021, 8:02am EDT
Even as vaccine distribution is increasing, one Westchester health care center
is dealing with issues of vaccine hesitancy.
The Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center deals with a large minority
community.
Research shows that minorities have been hardest hit by the coronavirus, but
there is still a widespread distrust among them to get the vaccine.
Tawanna Youngblood says she doesn’t feel comfortable getting the vaccine
because there isn’t enough information.
Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center CEO Judith Watson says they were on the
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Updated on:Apr 13, 2021, 10:09pm EDT
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Many people on News 12 s social media pages are saying the news is turning them off from going to vaccination sites to even get the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
Other people News 12 spoke to say that this will not stop them from getting vaccinated. There are a lot of folks who are going to say See? We told you, says Watson.
As head of the center, it s her job to get as many Black and Hispanic members of the community vaccinated as possible.
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A mayor in one of Westchester’s largest cities is calling for better performance from Montefiore after it was made public that it had the lowest vaccination rate in the state of New York.
This week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo highlighted the top and bottom performing hospitals in administering the allocations of vaccines provided to them, with some reaching 100 percent efficiency and Montefiore Mount Vernon at the bottom of the list with an 11 percent vaccination rate.
The next lowest-performing hospitals were Montefiore New Rochelle (23 percent), Brookdale Hospital Medical Center (24 percent), Wyoming County Hospital (26 percent), and NYC Health + Hospital/Queens (29 percent).