The Javits Center will extend its schedule for vaccinations, including Johnson & Johnson’s, starting this Saturday.
A schedule that according to Luis Hurtado, who this Friday missed work to get the vaccine, will benefit workers who do not have time during the day to get the dose.
“Oh, it would be very beneficial. That way you wouldn’t have to take the day off and at night practically leave work and come to get vaccinated,” Hurtado explains.
The news comes at a time when the Convention Center began operating, from this Friday, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
This as part of a pilot program in which the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is offered overnight.
This initiative also included the Yankee Stadium, where the vaccine began to be administered this Thursday and also at the State Fairgrounds in Syracuse.
During the day, every vaccination center in the state will have this new vaccine.
Some residents say they trust the dose of Johnson & Johnson will help fight the coronavirus: “Even if one does not know much about Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, something is better than nothing because many lives we lost.”
Mark Levine, the chairman of the Council’s Health Committee, posted on his social media that there is inequality in the distribution of vaccines in Manhattan with less minority population that has received the vaccine.
The councilman noted that the Javits Center, the only mass vaccination site in Manhattan, is operating for all residents of the state.
For which he called on the city government to enable a mass vaccination center only for residents of Manhattan.
German Acosta, who lives in Manhattan, agrees with this idea: “You don’t want to stay here all day. So if there is a place for Manhattanites it will not be as crowded, of course as if you come here all day. world, from everywhere. “
Levine also called on the city to restore service to subway now that the vaccination centers will be operating 24 hours a day. “You can have a vaccine, but you can’t use the subway”, ewrote on his Twitter account.
