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Ulster County to hold walk-in vaccination clinics next week in Marlborough, Shandaken, Ellenville
Ulster County will have three walk-in coronavirus vaccination clinics next week, County Executive Pat Ryan announced Thursday. The county’s goal, Ryan said during a Facebook Live briefing, is to make it as easy as possible for county residents to access the “lifesaving” vaccines.
No appointments will be required to receive the first dose of the two-shot Moderna vaccine at:
• The Marlborough Justice Court, 21 Milton Turnpike, Milton, from noon to 7 p.m. Monday, April 19;
• The Shandaken Town Hall, 7209 Route 28, Allaben, from noon to 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 20; and
• Ellenville High School, 28 Maple Ave., Ellenville, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 24.
Appointments for the Marlborough and Shandaken shots can be made online at vaccinateulsteer.com but are not required. Appointments to be vaccinated at the county’s main “point of dispensing” (POD)
site, in the former Best Buy store at Hudson Valley Mall in the town of Ulster, also can be made at that website.
The county held its first walk-in clinic from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday at the Andy Murphy III Midtown Neighborhood Center in Kingston. Information about how many doses were administered there was not immediately available.
This week’s allotment
Ryan said 10,480 doses of COVID vaccine were being shipped to Ulster County this week: 4,170 for the county health department; 3,510 for the state-run inoculation facility at the Ulster County Fairgrounds in New Paltz; and 2,800 for county “partner” sites, including hospitals and pharmacies.
Anyone who lives in New York state can be vaccinated at the New Paltz site. Shots at the sites operated by Ulster County and its partners are for county residents only.
Appointments to be vaccinated at the state-run sites, including the one in New Paltz, can be made online at covid-19-vaccine.health.ny.gov.
Vaccination stats
According to the New York state vaccine tracker, 82,674 Ulster County residents, or 46.3% of the population, had received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine as of Thursday, and 52,670 (about 29.5%) had completed the two-dose regimen.
In Dutchess County, according to the state, 123,129 residents, or 41.9% of the population, had received at least one COVID shot as of Thursday, and 74,939 (25.5%) had received both doses.
Dutchess County’s vaccination sign-up site is bit.ly/ dut-vax.
By the numbers
Ulster County on Thursday reported 1,407 active cases of COVID-19, down a sharp 141 from the 1,548 reported Wednesday and lower than at any point since early December. The county’s peak number of active cases was 2,622 on Jan. 30.
Ulster on Thursday also said there were 52 new COVID diagnoses out of the most recent 1,856 test results received, a positivity rate of 2.8%. That’s down significantly from the 5.1% reported Wednesday.
The county has had 14,076 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the local outbreak began in March 2020, as well as 12,422 recoveries and 247 deaths. No additional deaths were reported Thursday.
Dutchess County reported Thursday that it had 1,083 active cases of COVID, down 61 from the 1,144 it reported Wednesday.
The county, though, also reported an additional COVID-related death, bringing the total since last spring to 433.
Dutchess also said Thursday that 67 residents were hospitalized with COVID, up four from the 63 reported the day before but still well below the late-January peak of 172.
Dutchess has had 27,616 confirmed cases of the COVID since last March and said Thursday that its seven-day rate of positive test results was 4.28%, unchanged from the rate reported Wednesday.
In the schools
Newly reported cases of COVID-19 in area school districts are as follows, according to New York state.
• Kingston: One on-site student at John F. Kennedy Elementary School.
• Marlboro: One on-site middle schooler.
• Onteora: One on-site student at Bennett Elementary School.
• Red Hook: One on-site student at Linden Avenue Middle School.
• Rondout Valley: One on-site high school student.
• Wallkill: One on-site staff member at Ostrander Elementary School and one off-site high school student.