The new Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine is coming to a handful of state vaccination sites, including Yankee Stadium, the Javits Center and the New York State Fair site in Syracuse. The state expects to get over 160,000 doses of the vaccine this week, to also be distributed to counties, pharmacies, and Federally Qualified Health Centers. Meanwhile, the Emmy Award-winning governor of New York hasn’t held a televised COVID press conference since February 24th.
COVID-19 by the numbers now, here in Rockland, we lost two more to COVID, the total is 891. We’ve got 34 hospitalized confirmed with coronavirus, and 1,457 active cases. Our total case count is 38,797, that’s 169 more than Tuesday.