The Rockland County Department of Health hosted its first community vaccination clinic at the Martin Luther King Multi-Purpose Center in Spring Valley yesterday. The village ranks second-to-last in the number of residents in the county by percentage who have received their first dose, and Spring Valley NAACP President Willie Trotman says many village seniors simply aren’t tech-savvy enough to work through the system…
Only the Monsey zip code ranks lower than Spring Valley. At the top of the list, Palisades in Orangetown. Rockland County Executive Ed Day says despite the success the health department has had with its efforts at the Health Complex and the Fire Training Center in Pomona, the county still needs its own state-run facility…
Day says if the county were to get a state facility it would likely be located at RCC.
COVID-19 by the numbers now, here in Rockland, we lost two more to COVID, the total is 901. We’ve got 41 hospitalized confirmed with coronavirus, and 1,848 active cases. Our total case count is 40,407, that’s 204 more than Thursday.