10 Assemblymembers Sign On To Sayegh’s Letter to Hochul
Assembly Members Urge Governor to Target COVID-19 Testing & Pop UP Vaccination Sites to Communities at Greatest Risk from the Omicron Variant
Members of the New York State Assembly representing disadvantaged communities are urging Governor Kathy Hochul to target COVID-19 Testing and Pop UP Vaccination Sites to communities at greatest risk. These communities are impacted by their lower vaccination rates, severely reduced access to COVID-19 testing and because many residents are public-facing essential workers who are more likely to be exposed due to the nature of their work.
The Assembly members signed onto a letter from Yonkers Assemblyman Nader Sayegh to Governor Hochul. They represent disadvantaged communities stretching from Queens to Rochester.
In the letter to Governor Hochul the Assembly members said:
“Communities like ours have suffered a disproportionate amount of loss due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Given how much we know about how this contagion spreads, it is a matter of utmost importance that our residents do not continue to adversely suffer.”
The American Medical Association and the New York City Department of Health are among the organizations that have been documenting the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on disadvantaged and marginalized communities where social, economic and health inequities are the norm.
In Yonkers, residents are finding long lines to get a test at Urgent Care locations, and empty shelves in stores when looking for an at home COVID test.
