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New York Vaccine Expansion Reaches College Students New York Vaccine Expansion Reaches College Students

By Owen Valentine

OWEN VALENTINE: IN THE LATEST OF VACCINE ELIGIBILITY EXPANSION IN NEW YORK STATE…ANYONE AGES 30 OR OLDER BECAME ELIGIBLE THIS MORNING…AND JUST ONE WEEK FROM TODAY THAT EXPANDS TO ANYONE 16 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. MEANING ALL NEW YORK STATE ADULTS WILL BE VACCINE ELIGIBLE NEXT TUESDAY.

OWEN VALENTINE THE NEWS MEANS ALL COLLEGE AGED STUDENTS ARE NOW VACCINE ELIGIBLE. SOMETHING COUNTY EXECUTIVE RYAN MCMAHON SPOKE ABOUT YESTERDAY.

MCMAHON SOT: “SO WE WANT TO SEE WHAT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY GETS. WE WANT TO TALK TO LEMOYNE TO SEE WHO WE CAN VACCINATE THERE. ESF. THEN WE WILL SEE WHERE THE CASES ARE STILL GOING AND CERTAINLY WE ARE GOING TO MICRO TARGET VACCINES TO WHERE WE SEE CASES.”

OWEN VALENTINE: NOW MCMAHON SAYS PEOPLE AGE 16 TO 49 TYPICALLY ACCOUNT FOR OVER 70% OF DAILY CASES. WITH OVER 100 INDIVIDUALS ON THE SYRACUSE CAMPUS TESTING POSITIVE OVER THE LAST 14 DAYS AND OVER 300 MORE CURRENTLY IN QUARANTINE…IT MAKES VACCINATIONS AMONGST THOSE MORE SOCIAL GROUPS ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT.

OWEN VALENTINE: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY FRESHMAN JESSE COOK SAYS IT LEAVES A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR WHAT’S AHEAD.

JESSE COOK: “MAYBE NEXT FALL WE’LL ACTUALLY GET TO WATCH SOME FOOTBALL GAMES IN THE DOME. I MEAN IT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD, I LIKE KNOWING THAT I’M ON A SAFER COMMUNITY.”

OWEN VALENTINE: NOW IMPORTANT TO NOTE IF YOU’RE 16 OR 17 YEARS OLD LOOKING TO SCHEDULE A VACCINE APPOINTMENT…THE MODERNA AND JOHNSON & JOHNSON VACCINES WERE ONLY APPROVED FOR AGES 18 AND UP. MEANING IF YOU ARE IN THAT 16 TO 17 AGE RANGE…YOU’LL HAVE TO LOOK FOR A PHIZER VACCINE LOCATION. REPORTING IN SYRACUSE. OWEN VALENTINE. NCC NEWS.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) – The list of adult New Yorkers eligible for a COVID vaccine has reached its culmination as individuals ages 16 or older become eligible on April 6, opening vaccines up to adults statewide.

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this week that vaccine eligibility will expand to ages 30 and older March 30, before completely opening to 16 and up the following week. This was an idea Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon had been pushing for as Central New York vaccinations had already been expanding faster than the rest of the state.

In Monday’s press conference, McMahon said it is typical for over 70% of daily positive tests to be in individuals ages 16-49, the vast majority of whom, become vaccine eligible in the next seven days.

The process taken to vaccinate college campuses is still unknown. “We want to see what Syracuse University gets,” McMahon said. “We want to talk to LeMoyne. ESF. Then we will see where the cases are still going and certainly, we are going to micro target vaccines to where we see cases.”

On the Syracuse University campus, the news allows for a sigh of relief.

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