'We can stop people from dying' - Rockland County executive frustrated over lack of mass vaccination sites
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that 10 more mass vaccination sites will be opening in the state Friday - but one county says it's still waiting for one.
•
Mar 18, 2021, 2:27 AM
•
Updated 1,227 days ago
Share:
More Stories
Hometown Heroes in the Hudson Valley
2ds ago1:28
Medical experts recommend to still take precautions following CDC's revised COVID isolation guidelines
147ds ago1:52
Judge: 3 men convicted in COVID-19 relief aid fraud
168ds ago1:47
Wondrous Things store in Briarcliff Manor to close after 34 years; everything 25% off
295ds ago0:28
Rockland small businesses get COVID-19 reimbursement grant
295ds ago
Nobel in medicine goes to 2 scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
298ds agoHometown Heroes in the Hudson Valley
2ds ago1:28
Medical experts recommend to still take precautions following CDC's revised COVID isolation guidelines
147ds ago1:52
Judge: 3 men convicted in COVID-19 relief aid fraud
168ds ago1:47
Wondrous Things store in Briarcliff Manor to close after 34 years; everything 25% off
295ds ago0:28
Rockland small businesses get COVID-19 reimbursement grant
295ds agoNobel in medicine goes to 2 scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
298ds agoGov. Andrew
Cuomo announced Wednesday that 10 more mass vaccination sites will be opening
in the state Friday - but one county says it's still waiting for one.
The new
Hudson Valley sites are SUNY
Orange in Middletown and the Ulster Fairgrounds in New Paltz. The sites will be
open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and will give out 1,000 COVID-19 vaccines per day.
Rockland County Executive Ed Day, who has
been calling for a mass
vaccination site for months, says the area is at or near the top in both
infection rate and death rate due to COVID-19.
"My God, what the hell... we can stop people
from dying," he says.
Rockland residents can use other state vaccination
sites, but Day says that he's ready to have Rockland County Community College
up and running in a day if he has the approval.
