NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New Yorkers can start making appointments for federally backed mass vaccination sites.
Appointments will open up at 8 a.m. Saturday for sites in Brooklyn and Queens.
The sites at Medgar Evers College and York College will start administering shots on Wednesday. The sites will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day.
First dibs will go to people who live within surrounding zip codes. Appointments will open up to the entire borough after a week.
Each facility will give out 3,000 vaccines per day.
Appointments can be made by going to the state’s “Am I Eligible” website or by calling the COVID-19 vaccination hotline at 1-833-697-4829.
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Sites in Buffalo, Rochester, Albany and Yonkers will open on March 3. Eligible New Yorkers can begin making appointments for those sites Wednesday at 8 a.m.
Those sites will administer 1,000 doses per day.
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