MLK Center To Hold 2nd Pop-Up Vaccine Clinic In Spring Valley

SPRING VALLEY, NY — The MLK Center in Spring Valley will again be the site of a pop-up community-based coronavirus vaccination center, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.

Community-based vaccination centers usually identify residents from that community who are eligible to be vaccinated. Appointments are scheduled directly with the host site or partner provider who work with community organizations and community leaders to identify the list of people to receive a vaccine.

It's part of the community kit campaign started in January by the state's Vaccine Equity Task Force to serve poor communities where health care is less available.

Since Jan. 15, the community-based pop-up sites have enabled about 30,000 New Yorkers to receive their first COVID-19 vaccine dose. As has been the case with previous pop-up sites, these sites will be re-established in three weeks to administer second doses.

"We are grateful to the Governor for sending additional vaccine here to Rockland County and specifically to one of the areas that has been hit extremely hard by COVID-19," County Executive Ed Day told Patch on the occasion of the MLK Center's first pop-up clinic last week. "Our collective advocacy is working and I ask our residents to continue contacting the Governor's Office to ask that more vaccine be sent here."

The establishment of many of these vaccination sites was made possible through partnerships with public and private health care providers.

Community vaccination clinics in the Hudson Valley this week:

MLK Community Center
110 Bethune Blvd
Spring Valley, NY
Thursday, February 11 - 9AM - 5PM

People's Place
17 St. James Street
Kingston, NY
Friday, February 12 - 9AM - 5PM