Governor Andrew Cuomo held another closed-to-the-press announcement arm-and-arm with political allies who praised his efforts over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday in Rochdale, Queens.
The “Roll Up Your Sleeve” campaign is a new initiative from the Cuomo administration to encourage Black and Brown New Yorkers to get the COVID-19 vaccine as sites become widely available in their sections, but perceptions of distrust in these communities remain.
“The Black community is 27% of the population: only 19% of the people who have gotten vaccines. Latino community, 28% of the population, only 23% of the population was received vaccines. We are doing everything we can to do this equitably and fair. We are bringing the vaccines to the Black community, to the Latino community, 189 pop-up vaccine sites in communities of color,” Cuomo said.
