New Yorkers 50+ can now get vaccinated without an appointment
By FOX 5 NY Staff
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People are checked in at the Northwell Health pop-up coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination site at the Albanian Islamic Cultural Center in Staten Island. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Saturday that city-run vaccination sites will now offer vaccines to anyone over the age of 50 without an appointment.
Previously, the city had only been offering vaccinations without an appointment to residents who were 75 and older. Our priority for the next few months is clear: we need to vaccinate as many New Yorkers as possible, said 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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Updated on February 17, 2021 at 4:07 am
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What to Know
Three million people over age 16 with qualifying underlying conditions became eligible for their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, joining 7 million+ other New Yorkers already eligible
State-run sites saw the highest appointment volume since the rollout began on Sunday, the day they started accepting appointments for that group; appointments are now mostly booked through mid-April
The emergence of more contagious strains has intensified the urgency; the U.K. variant has been found in 40 states and a CT resident is now hospitalized in NYC with the South African one