Hudson Valley Lawmakers Press For Permanent Vaccination Sites

ALLISON DUNNE

Originally published in WAMC Northeast Public Radio

So the bill we introduced calls for the state to open a mass vaccination site in any county of the state with at least 300,000 people. Currently, every such county that’s that size already has one except for two counties in New York, and that’s Orange and Rockland County,” says Reichlin-Melnick. “Rockland is the eighth largest county in the state. Orange County is the seventh largest county in the state, and yet there is no state-run facility where residents of these counties can go to get their vaccines.”