NY state to set aside 35K COVID-19 vaccines for college students: Cuomo
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- New York state will set aside 35,000 COVID-19 vaccines for college students as part of an effort to "stamp out" the virus on campuses, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
Health care workers will administer 21,000 vaccines to residential and non-commuter SUNY students and 14,000 vaccines to private college students as part of the state's "initial allocation," Cuomo said in a press release.
Students will be able to set up appointments through their schools, the governor noted.
"We're now focusing on students, and we want to get students vaccinated before the end of the year," he said in a statement. "The 18 to 24 population is growing in positivity, and many of them are in colleges and universities."
"The state of New york is announcing that we will be giving direct allocations to colleges and universities so they can vaccinate their students in their facilities and help us stamp out the COVID beast," he added. "This is the moment of opportunity and we have COVID on the run, but we have to stay New York tough and New York smart."
Two state-run mass vaccination sites, Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood and SUNY Old Westbury in Old Westbury, will be administering vaccines to SUNY students on Long Island, the release said.
















