SOMOS, Cuomo team up to boost COVID-19 vaccine delivery in communities of color

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In yet another closed-to-the-press public event, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Friday another program aimed at expanding COVID-19 vaccine access to communities of color.

The nonprofit SOMOS will be using its network of more than 2,500 medical professionals, including doctors and pharmacists, to deliver a million vaccine doses to the Black and Latino communities they serve. Additional pop-up vaccination sites — including the New Settlement Community Center in the Bronx, where Cuomo held the March 26 gathering — will also be established.

Cuomo said the state, through an “unprecedented network,” will directly provide SOMOS with the vaccines for distribution in areas hardest hit since the pandemic first struck New York last March.