More Long Islander’s now eligible for COVID vaccine

More Long Islander’s now eligible for COVID vaccine

Forms rest in a box at the entrance to a New York Health and Hospitals vaccine clinic in the Brooklyn borough of New York Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. The clinic, serving 30 people getting vaccines Sunday, will expand to a twenty four hour, seven day a week operation starting Monday. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

(East Farmingdale, NY)- Starting Monday, a whole new group of New Yorker’s will be eligible to get a COVID vaccine.  Group 1B includes; teachers and education workers, first responders including police and firefighters, also corrections officers and persons age 75 and older.  You can check to see if you are eligible to get a vaccine on the New York State Department of Health website.

Photo: Forms rest in a box at the entrance to a New York Health and Hospitals vaccine clinic in the Brooklyn borough of New York Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021 (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)