MTA Front-Line Workers Get Vaccinated At Javits Center: PHOTOS

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — After serving for months on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, MTA workers began getting their vaccines this week at the state-run Javits Convention Center hub.

Thanks to the state's expanded eligibility rules, the agency's entire, 70,000-member workforce got the chance to sign up for the shot this week, the New York Daily News reported.

MTA officials encouraged workers to get vaccinated, adding that smaller sites would be set up at workplaces in the coming weeks, according to the Daily News.

Others, meanwhile, headed to the Javits Center on its opening day Wednesday, where some of the roughly 10,000 vaccines being given out were reserved for MTA workers.

New Yorkers must register online for an appointment at the Javits Center and other state-run sites. (The city-sponsored sites have their own website.) People now eligible to be vaccinated include health care workers and New Yorkers aged 65 or older.

Appointments are filling up fast, though, and the state warned this week that eligible New Yorkers should be prepared to wait 14 weeks or more for their appointment date.

More than 266,000 New York City residents had received the first of the vaccine's two doses by Thursday afternoon, according to the city's tracker.

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