Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday called for city staff to again include city employees to include sanitation employees, lifeguards and court room employees – to expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility – as they over dosage for New York City Was also demanded.
During a city hall press briefing, De Blasio said, “I am once again calling on New York State to update the eligibility.” “There are people who need to be involved.”
De Blasio also said that eligibility should be extended to Election Commissions, boards of election workers, NYCHA “frontline staff,” “business and job center employees,” building, housing and health inspectors and other essential employees.
“Our sanitation workers who have been heroes, did a wonderful job during the snowstorm. We depend on them. We need them to be healthy. They should be included.
The mayor said that as the weather warms up, “we need our life guards back.”
He said, ‘We need to train them now. They need to be protected, ”he said.
Hizoner said that “everyone” who works in the courtroom should be eligible to do the job.
“The one who serves a jury, vaccinate all” de Blasio said. “If you are ready to serve on a jury, thank you, God bless you, but you should know that you will be safe.”
De Blasio said the state “is not with the need to update this category, to update these eligibility categories.”
“Give us the freedom to vaccinate,” he said. “Give us that freedom and we can move this city forward.”
Additionally, de Blasio demanded that the state supply more vaccines to Gotham, as it re-caught that large state-run COVID-19 vaccination sites in the city were administering shots for several out-of-towers. .
The mayor revealed on Monday that 75 percent of shots given at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens were given to out-of-towners, while more than 42 percent went to non-city residents on the site of the Javits Center in Manhattan .
“I want those people to be vaccinated as well, but the answer is, give us more vaccines,” De Blasio said.
“If our people from New York City are expected to include more people from the suburbs, plus people from New Jersey and Connecticut – we’ll serve anyone and everyone – but give us our fair share of vaccines. Give us a lot Do not give less commentary and then expect us to handle people in the city and out of town. ”
Meanwhile, de Blasio announced that a new coronovirus vaccination site will open on Thursday at Co-op City in The Bronx.
“The Bronx is often overlooked. We cannot allow this to happen. Therefore, we are going to bring the vaccine to the people of Co-op City, for the people of the Bronx, ”he said.
The new vaccination site at 131 Dreiser Loop will be open from 8 am to 7 pm Thursday-Tuesday
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