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Press release from the Kings County Government:

April 5, 2021

Governor Launches "Roll Up Your Sleeve" Ad Campaign To Encourage New Yorkers From Hardest Hit Neighborhoods to Get Vaccinated

Statewide Ads Will Begin Running April 7

New Yorkers 16 Years of Age and Older Can Begin to Schedule Appointments and Get Vaccinated Beginning April 6

New York State Will Make Eligibility Universal Nearly a Month Earlier Than President Biden's May 1 Deadline

Governor Cuomo: "Let's take the moment and recognize the injustices that existed and correct them. And COVID showed us a lot of these injustices right up close and personal. The inequality in the education system. Now, we always knew we had two education systems, right? One for the rich and one for the poor, let's be honest, we're in Queens, we can say, honestly, candidly. But that remote learning exploded the injustice, remote learning. Yeah, remote learning works great if you have the internet, if you have the right computer and device, if you have someone who can help you. Otherwise, you got left behind at a hundred miles an hour, the speed of the internet. Worst income inequality in the history of this state and this nation. Not broadband accessibility for everyone. Let's rebuild with new airports like the Congressman is working on, and new trains, and new bridges, and new houses, and new home ownership. New job training that really gives people the skills, finally put in the green economy that we've been talking about and dreaming about, and everyone's been talking about, but nobody's been doing. We'll do that first here in New York in our renewal."

Cuomo: "But the first step towards renewal is what? Is defeating COVID. Do not get cocky with COVID. Do not get cocky with COVID. "Well, it seems like it's getting better." It is. Do not get cocky with COVID. There are variants, this virus changes on you, it mutates on you, hundreds of times a week around the world. All you need it one mutation that is vaccine-resistant, and then we have a problem. We have to crush COVID, and we have it on the run, but now is a time that we have to crush it once and for all. And the fist step towards doing that is you have to take the vaccine. You have to take the vaccine."

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