Community Vaccination Kits Will Be Deployed to All 33 NYCHA Senior Housing Developments to Provide Vaccine Access to Eligible Senior Residents
Community Vaccination Program Expanded to Public Housing Complexes Statewide and More Than 300 Churches
Kits Deployed to Four NYCHA Sites on Saturday to Administer First Doses to More Than 1,000 Senior Residents; Eight Kits Also Deployed to Churches to Vaccinate Nearly 4,000 Eligible New Yorkers
Follows Last Week’s Successful Deployment Which Administered First Doses to Nearly 1,200 Senior NYCHA Residents and Nearly 4,000 Eligible New Yorkers at Church Locations
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that New York is expanding its deployment of community vaccination kits to further strengthen fairness and equity in the vaccine distribution process. Last week, New York successfully piloted the deployment kits to five NYCHA senior housing developments and eight churches and cultural centers where nearly 4,200 seniors and eligible New Yorkers received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Kits are now being redeployed to four additional NYCHA sites and eight other churches to further build on that progress. In total, this initiative is expected to provide first doses of the vaccine to an additional 3,000 seniors and eligible New Yorkers by Tuesday. As with the pop-up sites established last weekend, these sites will be re-established in three weeks to administer second doses.
Following this weekend’s deployments and as the federal vaccine supply increases, New York will continue to be deploy these kits until pop-up sites have been established at all 33 NYCHA Senior Housing Developments which house more than 7,600 seniors. Pop-up locations will also be established at other public housing complexes statewide, as well as at more than 300 churches and cultural centers which have volunteered to house these sites through Governor Cuomo’s Vaccine Equity Task Force.