Dr. Ramon Tallaj, left, SOMOS Community Care Chairman and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hand out COVID-19 vaccination information near a COVID-19 vaccination site at Yankee Stadium, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in the Bronx borough of New York.
Yankee Stadium opened as a COVID-19 vaccination site Friday, drawing lines of people from surrounding neighborhoods in the Bronx.
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)NEW YORK ā Yankee Stadium was opened as a COVID-19 mass vaccination site Friday by officials trying to boost inoculation rates in surrounding Bronx neighborhoods hard hit by the pandemic.
The megasite is being restricted to residents of the New York City borough with the highest percentage of positive coronavirus test results.
I was registered around town and nobody called me," she said, but her doctor "was on the ball, and found out as soon as Yankee Stadium got the vaccine.āNot everyone had a smooth experience.