The sites, located in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, are for people who have already made appointments online.
Officials have said another clinic will open soon at NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Vanderbilt on Staten Island.
The Big Apple has become the epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S., primarily impacting the LGBTQ+ community, and Governor Kathy Hochul says there are tens of thousands of additional doses on the way.Almost all of them, 461, are in New York City, but Westchester County is now up to 16 confirmed cases, while Nassau and Suffolk counties are reporting 4 and 3 confirmed cases, respectively. Additionally, there is one case each in Rockland, Sullivan, Chemung, Erie, St. Lawrence and Monroe counties.
Nearly 33,000 of those doses will arrive in New York next week, but Mayor Eric Adams says the city needs more. The vaccine rollout has been plagued with glitches and delays, prompting the city to switch from outside vendors to its own website, the same platform used for COVID vaccination appointments.
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