COVID-19 vaccine

Riverhead has arranged for 1,000 first-doses of the two-dose Moderna vaccine to be administered to seniors 65 and older at the town's senior center in Aquebogue. Appointments are required. (No walk-ups.)

Riverhead should have a vaccination site in town for residents 65+ by next week, Supervisor Yvette Aguiar said in an interview today.

The more research I did, the more I realized while it was important for my husband and me to get the vaccine, it was most important for my daughter to be vaccinated.

Doctors in New York and five other states are urging the Biden Administration and state governments to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to community-based...

With more than half of all New Yorkers now eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine though the vaccine supply remains scarce,

The governor this afternoon released a long list of comorbidities and underlying conditions that will make adult New Yorkers eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine regardless of age or occupation, beginning Feb. 15.

Local residents report spending futile hours on end trying to make vaccination appointments through the state's website, which repeatedly crashed. Hundreds of people who made appointments at Stony Brook University, using an unauthorized link, had their appointments voided.

The vaccine distribution system on the East End, with the new, expanded eligibility categories, is virtually non-existent, the East End's state lawmakers, town supervisors and village mayors wrote in a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and County Executive Steve Bellone.

As of today, the 3.2 million New York residents in priority group 1B can begin scheduling appointments to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. But be prepared to wait as much as 14 weeks for the shot, the governor said, due to the "severely limited" vaccine supply the state is getting from the federal government.