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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio visits with religious leaders of the Muslim community at a pop-up vaccine site in The Bronx.
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A sudden federal halt to the one-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has dampened hopes among NYC Muslim leaders who were planning for a substantial vaccination push during Ramadan.
Universal eligibility for the vaccines arrived not long before Muslim New Yorkers welcomed Ramadan on April 12th. Religious leaders and the city had debuted pop-up vaccination sites at three mosques, ICNA Markaz and Jamaica Muslim Center in Queens and Al-Masjidu Adam in the Bronx. Each mosque had its own rules on securing a vaccine from simply walking in to filling out google forms. ....

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