The following report is from CBS New York:
A new mobile vaccine bus is rolling around the five boroughs trying to get as many people as possible to roll up their sleeves and get a COVID-19 shot.
But first it’s targeting some specific groups of people.
CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge saw two buses on Wednesday. The first was the vaccination bus. After getting the shot, patients walk over to the 15-minute observation bus to make sure they don’t have a reaction.
The idea is to get to bring shots into hard-to-reach areas and focus on getting restaurant workers, undocumented New Yorkers and, eventually, the city’s homeless population.
Duddridge took a tour of the city’s first mobile vaccination buses. They will be parked for the next three days in Sunset Park on 7th Avenue, near 54th.
I think it’s great. It’s easy for everybody, gets done faster. I think a lot of people were not doing it because it’s hard to get an appointment. It’s hard to get to places where you have to take the vaccine.
Christian Obredin. Employee at Peter Luger’s Steak House.
The roving bus will focus on restaurant workers like Obredin, as well as undocumented people, many who work in food service.
There’s 500,000 New Yorkers who work in restaurants. We want to find all of them who want to be vaccinated and make it easier for them.
Sean Feeney. Co-founder of Relief Opportunities for All Restaurants (ROAR)
The mobile vaccination bus is a joint effort between Promobile Kitchen, Daybreak Health, and the city.
They were out of work. They were in a bus yard. We had the idea that we could turn these buses through design and fabrication into mobile vaccine clinics that can go anywhere.
Giovanni Martinez. Director of client services for Promobile
This bus is really exciting. It’s going to be a game changer, as well. We could do up to 200 vaccinations per day.
Mayor Bill de Blasio
It will administer the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
There’s going to be six exam rooms, so that we can be doing six vaccines at any given moment here. This is our refrigerator here, where we keep all of the vaccine.
Dr. Ted Long of NYC Health + Hospitals gave the media a tour of the bus
For now, people have to make an appointment online or by phone. Eventually, walkups may be available.
To be as accessible as possible, the mobile clinics will accommodate multiple languages.
I feel good. I’m glad they have the bus here. It’s so easy, because I don’t have a car. It’s so inconvenient to travel too far.
Elane Xi. Restaurant worker
The mayor said Wednesday there have been 4.6 million doses administered in the city so far and added the city will start offering walk-up vaccinations for people 75 and over at 25 sites sites in all five boroughs. The city will also be doubling the number of vaccine pop-ups, including to consulates, retirement homes and 12 New York City Housing Authority locations.
Very important, very important.
Very good. They are handling it very well.
Two anonymous individuals
The bus is the latest addition to city’s mobile fleet of 20 vans and it will remain in Sunset Park until 3 p.m. on Friday before moving on Saturday to Union Avenue and North 10th Street in Williamsburg.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
C’mon everyone, “Ride on the Magic School Covid Bus!” – that’s a reference to an old cartoon my generation grew up with and watched all the time in Elementary school, if you didn’t know.
It would not surprise me if this new “wonderful” idea catches on quickly and more of these start popping up.
Eventually this’ll probably turn into the bus that drags you off to an internment camp for not getting vaccinated or for whatever other reason they come up with.
The report also mentioned they will be giving out the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the same one that led to an older man breaking out with severely inflamed and peeling skin.
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Ride on the Magic Death Bus is more like it! What’s next, a covid jab helicopter ride? A pleasure cruise with pokey pokeys and lobster supper?
Lol, don’t hold your breathe. That’ll be next weeks new scheme.