Citi Field opened as a mass COVID-19 vaccination site on Wednesday, and Mets owner Steve Cohen was on hand along with New York City mayor Bill de Blasio to officially open the site.
Cohen’s thoughts, in short?
“Let’s get vaccinated, and Let’s Go Mets,” he said with a smile.
Check out Cohen’s full statement below thanks to SNY:
Citi Field is the latest mass vaccination side to open in NYC, a list that also includes Yankee Stadium.
“We know the suffering that’s going on with COVID, and any way the organization could help support this effort, we were going to do it,” Cohen said last week in the initial release about Citi Field. “We have talked about being involved in our communities, and I can’t think of any way that’s more important than what this effort is. The goal is just to get the vaccine in people’s arms so we can get this crisis over with, and get back to living a normal life. I really would look forward to that, and I think everybody else would, too.”
Perhaps some good news on that front for Cohen: New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that, per local Department of Health approval, arenas can open back up later this month, with a maximum of 10 percent capacity for those holding 10,000 or more seats.
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