Top lawmakers and ushers at the Gracie mansion demanded that officials do more to expand the coronovirus vaccine in the working class and minority areas of the Big Apple, after the Post revealed that the wealthy Manhattan neighborhood is home to a lion’s share of injection sites .
The paper’s analysis showed that Manhattan, south of 110th Street, has 99 vaccination sites – eight more than all of Brooklyn, home to 2.6 million people.
All told, Manhattan – population 1.6 million – has 125 private and publicly run locations where New Yorkers can form a squad, replicating about 69 locations in The Bronx that have roughly the same population.
Councilman Mark Levine (D-Manhattan) said, “We need exactly the same places in communities of color, areas where the epidemic has been killed, and very little vaccination in the last two months.” Health Committee of the City Council.
As expected 2021 Manhattan Borough President, Levine said the distribution effort included independent mom-and-pop drug stores in working-class neighborhoods, which are more common.
The list of 413 distribution points obtained by The Post included only four such providers.
Councilwoman Carlina Rivera (D-Manhattan) said, “It is clear from The Post’s report that City Hall should make more efforts to ensure that vaccines are evenly distributed at sites across the city.” “This explains why it is so important that the administration finally reveals how much the vaccine is going to each site.”
New Yorkers can actually get the much-desired COVID vaccine after data from the city’s Health Department showed that the paper’s investigation shows the shots are ending up in the arms of a white New Yorker, who is black or latino Newtoners live in more wealthy neighborhoods than the Manhattan core.
A new analysis of the news non-profit The City reported on Thursday that the white New Yorker Black New Yorkers are twice as likely So far to get a shot.
City Hall pinched the gap on state and federal guidelines, which include private chain pharmacies, which are popular in neighborhoods such as Duane Reade, at the forefront of the vaccination effort. And, officials said, the city has opened about 50 sites – including City -field and Yankee Stadium – in a bid to improve Outer-Boro access.
“The city has led the way in setting up vaccine sites in neighborhoods of color and will continue to do us,” said Press Secretary Bill Neirhart.
But those seeking to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is term-limited, said it was not enough and City Hall sought to double its efforts to improve vaccine distribution in black and latino areas.
“Beginning with the vaccine rollout, we are warning that it will happen – and now there is evidence of that,” said Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a key contender in the upcoming Democratic mayor primary this June. “The city quickly transfers resources to cover the outermost boroughs, communities of color and areas hardened by the virus and report its progress in real-time.”
City Comptroller Scott Stringer, another top 2021 optimist, called the vaccine rollout “a management and ethical failure of the highest order”.
“We knew the vaccine was coming and we knew where the disparities were and yet the city almost did not have to face those disparities,” Stringer said.
De Blasio’s former crisis prevention and sanitation commissioner Catherine Garcia described the disparities highlighted by The Post as “unacceptable”.
“The rollout of the vaccine has been a failure and the disparities seen from this data confirm what we knew – the vaccine is not being received by all of our communities equally,” she said. “A well-organized, equitable vaccine delivery is essential to New York’s recovery and New York’s health and safety. We need to do better. ”
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