A Peconic Landing resident receives the first dose of the vaccine Thursday. (Credit: Tara Smith)
In 17 years at Peconic Landing, president and CEO Robert Syron described Thursday as his “best day ever” on the job.
That’s because the retirement community partnered with Stony Brook Medicine to administer approximately 650 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations to both residents and members of the greater community.
In an interview Thursday, Mr. Syron said Peconic Landing has been advocating to be a mass vaccination “pod” due to the density of residents across the North Fork who are ages 65 and over.
“When [the state] was putting pod sites together, they didn’t take into consideration the demographics out here and also didn’t take into consideration how hard it is for an 80-year-old to get in a car and go an hour and 20 minutes,” he said.
Shelter Island Town Hall (Credit: Tara Smith)
Supervisor Gerry Siller got a call Tuesday from Dr. Josh Potter of the Medical Center that a limited number of doses of COVID-19 vaccine were to be made available at Greenport’s Peconic Landing this week.
Dr. Potter also called Senior Services Director Laurie Fanelli to let her know that a list being compiled of those Island seniors unable to travel to get inoculated might be able to get appointments.
But if an appointment hasn’t been made, it’s too late, Mr. Siller said. Nonetheless, any senior not already on the Senior Center’s list should be sure to sign up there.
Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker, left, and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Fatalities at nursing homes across New York due to COVID-19 were undercounted by as much as 50% as residents who died at hospitals were not included in that data, according to a report released Thursday by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Discrepancies in data released by the State Department of Health has been a point of contention ever since the initial COVID outbreak resulted in thousands of deaths in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. State lawmakers held a pair of public hearings last summer to question officials such as Dr. Howard Zucker, the state health commissioner, on the state’s handling of nursing homes and the data that had been released.
New York State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, M.D. (Credit: Courtesy photo)
Fatalities at nursing homes across New York due to COVID-19 were undercounted by as much as 50% as residents who died at hospitals were not included in that data, according to a report released Thursday by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Discrepancies in data released by the State Department of Health (DOH) has been a point of contention ever since the initial COVID outbreak resulted in thousands of deaths in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. State lawmakers held a pair of public hearings last summer to question officials such as Dr. Howard Zucker, the state health commissioner, on the state’s handling of nursing homes and the data that had been released.
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