Should I do this?’,” said Zain, 47 after getting the shot at Brooklyn Army Terminal on a frigid Sunday afternoon. “You should do it because this is the way to move forward.”The Brooklyn site is one of two mass vaccination locations that opened in New York City on Sunday. As of early Sunday, New York City had administered 203,181 doses of the vaccines to its residents out of more than 524,000 doses that have been delivered, data from the city’s health department showed. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said healthcare workers and nursing home residents and staff should have priority for the limited supply of vaccines. The United States is now averaging 3,000 deaths and 245,000 new cases a day, according to a Reuters tally of public health data.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 10, 2021 22:30 UTC