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“SOMOS Community Care” activated today a vaccination center in Upper Manhattan, after receiving its first shipment of COVID doses – 19 of the Moderna laboratory.
The first batch will be administered to healthcare workers, in close collaboration with city officials and the state, according to a statement.
Two phases of vaccine distribution are anticipated . The first limited to frontline healthcare workers, followed by a massive supply of vaccines, available to the network of 800 thousand SOMOS patients.
Vaccines of Modern require two doses to be effective , and continuous storage and monitoring of the temperature rigorously.
Dr. Ramón Tallaj, founder of “Somos Community Care” and member of the COVID Working Group – 19 NY of the governorate, publicly received the first round at 1: 00 pm at Doctor Urgent Medical Care (44 Sherman Ave), to demonstrate that it is a safe vaccine for the most vulnerable people in the Latino community who have been suffering disproportionately as the pandemic continues to threaten your health, nutrition, education and well-being on a daily basis. ”
SOMOS’s network of primary care physicians and pediatricians has been on the front line providing evidence free Covid – 19 in communities of color and low-income mainly in public and Catholic schools in the city.
“To date, SOMOS has established more than 50 trilingual test sites, has tested more than 1 million people across the country and served more than 2 million meals to the most deprived New Yorkers. ”
Having traveled to the southern states, a region known as the “Sun Belt”, SOMOS created what has become “a model Culturally Competent National Care for the Neglected in the Battle with Covid – 19 ”. In the early months of the pandemic, 12 physicians and nurse practitioners of their network died from the virus.
SOMOS is a non-profit network run by doctors, with more than 2, 500 care providers serving more than 800 thousand beneficiaries of Medicaid in NYC, created in 2015. More information here. 2019