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500 Inoculated After Storm Postponements: Nassau County Exec
County Executive Laura Curran said residents with storm-related coronavirus vaccine postponements at county centers have been inoculated.
NASSAU COUNTY, NY — The 500 people who missed their COVID-19 vaccination appointments at Nassau County’s two distribution centers last week due to the storm were inoculated yesterday, County Executive Laura Curran said.
The appointments were spread out between the county’s two centers at Nassau Community College in Garden City and the Yes We Can Community Center in Westbury. All together the county inoculated 1,500, or 50% more than previous days.
“We were excited to do 1,000 [vaccinations] a day,” said Curran, who made the announcement at a news conference on Wednesday. “The fact that we did 50% more is incredibly impressive.”
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The vaccination appointments were missed due to Sunday’s storm. Postponed appointments from last week’s storm have also caught up, according to Curran’s office. One hundred and fifty thousand people have been vaccinated in Nassau County, and of that number, 21,000 have been vaccinated at the county’s two vaccination centers.
Curran said county officials are also undertaking an education campaigns to dispel misinformation about the vaccines, and they will be working with Long Island Federally Qualified Health Clinics to reach vulnerable populations.
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Curran on Wednesday said that the county had a positivity rate of 5.9%, meaning that 820 people tested positive out of the 14,458 who were tested. Hospitalizations continued trending down with 710 hospitalized. Of that number, 102 were housed in Intensive Care Units and 61 people required ventilators.
“As predicted, the winter has been tricky,” Curran said. “We have seen the post-holiday slump and the numbers are going down, which is what we like to see.”
She encouraged residents to “keep up the good work with this decline” while officials work on getting more vaccines.
County Health Commissioner Dr. Larry Eisenstein also said officials will be adding more vaccine providers to its website, and it will be streamlined to make it easier for residents to sign up.
An update of the county’s COVID-19 numbers can be found by clicking here.
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