So far, we have inoculated about 58,000 people, including health care workers and frontline caregivers in the community.Ĭommunity volunteer John Wood carries Christmas gifts to a home on Decemin St Paul, Minnesota. New York’s largest health system, Northwell Health, which I lead, is responsible for working with Nassau and Suffolk counties to vaccinate 2.3 million eligible people on Long Island. In New York, the state has established 10 regional vaccination hubs, led mostly by local hospitals and health systems. Now that the infrastructure is in place, the process is becoming much more seamless. Because of the daunting logistical challenges, it has taken states, local governments and health care providers a couple of weeks to establish a workable infrastructure for storing the vaccine distributing doses to individual hospitals, doctors’ offices and other medical practices working with county and city governments to identify “point of distribution” sites in local communities setting up IT systems to schedule appointments based on available supply validating people’s eligibility administering doses of the vaccine before they expire and then scheduling and arranging for second doses. The supply chain begins with the federal government, which arranges for the vaccines to be shipped to individual states, based largely on their populations and how many people are eligible. Understandably, the public does not want to hear excuses about why it’s taking so long, but vaccinating hundreds of millions of people is an unprecedented national undertaking that requires enormous resources and staffing, as well as flawless timing, precision and execution. The reason? So far, most of the responsibility has fallen on state and local governments and health care organizations to set up an adequate infrastructure to seamlessly deliver the vaccine to the expanding number of people permitted to get it. ![]() While the federal government’s “Operation Warp Speed” has delivered more than 31 million doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to date, only about 12 million of them have been administered. Admittedly, the effort is off to a slow start, but it’s fruitless and unfair to blame federal or state governments, or the millions of health care workers trying to administer the vaccine while caring for the more than 128,000 Americans now hospitalized with the virus. Patients will be required to stay in their cars and will be given a test kit and instructions through the pharmacy window.Ī CVS Pharmacy team member will be observe the self-swab process to ensure it is completed correctly.As the coronavirus continues to spread rampantly throughout the United States, it is urgent that government agencies and health care providers embrace an “all hands-on-deck” emergency response approach to vaccinate Americans equitably, safely and as quickly as possible. ![]() Six CVS Pharmacy drive-thru locations on Staten Island will be offering self-swab COVID-19 testing. Check for eligibility: NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Vanderbilt Call: 86ħ77 Seaview Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10305 Appointments MUST be made by calling 87.Īdvantage Care Physicians - Richmond Avenue OfficeĪll screenings and tests are by appointment only. Appointments will be available Tuesday through Thursday for high-risk veterans and those aged 65 and older. VA Clinic - ELIGIBLE BOROUGH VETERANS ONLYġ150 South Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10314īorough veterans who are eligible for a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine can get vaccinated at the Staten Island VA clinic in Bloomfield beginning Tuesday, January 26. Minors under 18 years old must be accompanied by an adult. ![]() Rapid Test $120, Free test with insurance takes 4-5 daysĬentral Family Life Center - MONDAYS ONLYĥ9 Wright Street, Staten Island, NY 10304 ![]() (Retail space 103 by the North Shore Esplanade Exit) NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Vanderbiltġ65 Vanderbilt Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10304ģ833 Richmond Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10312ĥ7 Cleveland Place, Staten Island NY 10305
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