Decision to close immunization clinics shows Bloomberg administration's ill will

Jose Peralta

As reported by the Daily News:

Closing down two of only three remaining immunization clinics in the city seems especially thoughtless and cruel even for an administration that, like Mayor Bloomberg’s, is notorious for its blindness when it comes to the most vulnerable New Yorkers.

Yet that’s what the city’s Department of Health is planning to do at the end of this month.

The clinics are in Corona, Queens, and Tremont in the Bronx, and thousands of people visit them for free vaccinations every year. Their disappearance will impact mostly poor immigrants and low-income people, who will be left with only one immunization center miles away in Fort Greene.

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