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Expectation meets reality: Batavia COVID vaccination site a disappointment for rural access Rob Hackford
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New numbers from the state-run mass vaccination site in Batavia have local leaders expressing concern once again about rural access.
The site located at Genesee Community College opened Friday with plans to inoculate 3,500 people with the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine over the next five days.
Located between Orleans County and Wyoming County, local leaders had hoped the site would help address the low vaccination rates in their more rural counties.
But the new numbers don t suggest that. It was a fiasco in terms of getting rural folks the shot in the arm, Assemblyman Steve Hawley said Friday.