Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente says county operated PODs will look to vaccinate more than 5,000 area residents over the next five days.
Picente says the county recently received more than five thousand new doses from the state, a combination of Pfizer, Moderna and recently approved Johnson and Johnson vaccines.
Residents can visit to schedule an appointment. Picente says the county will book appointments for each location one day prior to the POD schedule. In other words, they won t be booking appointments for Sunday s POD, for examble, until Saturday:
Thursday, March 4 -
9:30 a.m. to 1:30p.m. at St Paul s Baptist Church on Leah Street in Utica
Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente says county operated PODs will look to vaccinate more than 5,000 area residents over the next five days.
Picente says the county recently received more than five thousand new doses from the state, a combination of Pfizer, Moderna and recently approved Johnson and Johnson vaccines.
Residents can visit to schedule an appointment. Picente says the county will book appointments for each location one day prior to the POD schedule. In other words, they won t be booking appointments for Sunday s POD, for examble, until Saturday:
Thursday, March 4 -
9:30 a.m. to 1:30p.m. at St Paul s Baptist Church on Leah Street in Utica
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County Executive Anthony Picente says the most recent delivery from New York State will be administered to local seniors and first responders at county operated PODs at MVCC in Utica and at the drive-thru location at Griffiss International Airport in Rome.
“There are many seniors in Oneida County who have had difficulty navigating the laborious vaccination process that has been dictated by New York State,” Picente said. “Our government has been working with those who do not have the ability to make online appointments and who have trouble with transportation or mobility, and will be making sure they are vaccinated at our county-operated sites on Thursday.”
It s not the amount that local officials were hoping for, but Oneida County Health received 500 new doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday.
County health officials will again begin booking appointments this evening (at ocgov.net) and administering those doses tomorrow at the Griffiss Airport location and at the MVCC Utica campus. Officials say once those 500 appointments are booked, they will again be out and won t book any new appointments until the state delivers more. They also noted they still have 430 doses on hand from a previous delivery from the state.
An exact time for when Oneida County will begin booking those appointments online tonight was not announced, but it will undoubtedly set off a virtual race local residents scramble to snag one of those appointments.