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Westchester Medical Center Moving “Swiftly”
Just in — Westchester Medical Center Health Network issued this statement to WPCNR last night, but just received by WPCNR on the present status of their vaccinations assignments:
” Westchester Medical Center is moving swiftly through our vaccine allocation.
Daily we are vaccinating hundreds of our workforce members. Earlier this week, we also began administering the second dose to our workforce.
We are closely following New York State guidelines for vaccine prioritization and distribution, and are working under those guidelines hand-in-hand with nearly 200 community partners, including county departments of health, local government, emergency service and other community providers, to deploy vaccine allocations as they become available.
WPCNR has followed up with these queries:
1. When does the Medical Complete expect to complete all first and second doses to all your personnel?
2. How many are left to get the second dose and how many have to get their first shot?
3. Is the second dose have a delay attached to it before it can be administered after the first shot, does that explain the “lag” criticized by the Governor?
4. Is there a shortage of vaccines to cover the persons in this first availability (your personnel) as seems alluded to in the last sentence of your statement?
5. Do you have enough vaccine on hand to move on to the elderly, then the general public?
6. Do you have an explanation for the delay (only 32% vaccinated according to the Governor) Monday
7. For patients suffering from Covid presently at your facilities, do you have enough approved treatment drugs on hand to help those hospitalized, or do you need more supplies?
GREENBURGH SUPERVISOR ENCOURAGES GOVERNOR CUOMO TO CALL OUT THE NATIONAL GUARD TO SPEED VACCINATIONS
WPCNR THE LETTER TICKER. January 6, 2020:
Many constituents have complained about the slow rollout of vaccinating New Yorker’s. Although some hospitals have the vaccines they have not been administered.
The Governor has threatened to fine the hospitals that have the vaccines but don’t use it. I have previously encouraged the state to encourage more retired Doctors, nurses, EMTs to volunteer to help administer vaccines to expedite the process of vaccinating more people quickly.
To encourage buy in among those who don’t believe in vaccinations I think that the religious community should be enlisted in the process.
An idea: vaccinations can be given to congregants at the conclusion of services.
If religious leaders and fellow congregants take the vaccines in front of their congregants it might encourage others to have confidence in the safety of the vaccines.
Another suggestion made to me: school nurses could be given more vaccines and authorized by school districts to vaccinate not only students and teachers but residents who live within the school district.
To coordinate this massive effort – I suggested in today’s NY Daily News that the Governor call in the National Guard just like he did during the past year.
Boots on the ground
Greenburgh, N.Y.: Gov. Cuomo deployed the National Guard to New Rochelle to establish containment centers to stem the coronavirus. The governor also used the National Guard in November to better enforce the state’s testing rules going into the holiday. The National Guard also helped construct a temporary hospital at the Javits Center. Why doesn’t the governor call in the National Guard to expedite distribution and coordination of the vaccinations? We can’t allow the timeline for COVID-19 vaccines to keep slipping. Paul Feiner