booster shots
Where to Get Your COVID Booster in Tompkins County
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Since the CDC authorized all adults to receive booster shots, Cornell community members can sign up at a variety of locations across Ithaca.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/covid-19-vaccine/)
Since the CDC authorized all adults to receive booster shots, Cornell community members can sign up at a variety of locations across Ithaca.
Under a recent executive order, Cornell will require all Cornell employees to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 8 — marking a shift from previous University policy that only encouraged faculty and staff to get their COVID vaccines.
Although 54.7 percent of the total U.S. population is fully vaccinated for COVID-19 as of Sept. 20, the threat of the highly contagious Delta variant and waning antibodies after vaccination makes vaccine boosters a next step in curbing COVID-19 infections for some.
The University will participate in the Tompkins County Health Department and Cayuga Medical Center “College Student Vaccination Day” for students from Cornell, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College at the Shops at Ithaca Mall vaccination site.
New York State residents age 16+ will be eligible to schedule and receive COVID-19 vaccines as of April 6th. Here’s how to get your shot.
According to Tompkins County Public Health Director Frank Kruppa, Cornell has been approved as a vaccination site by New York State.
As COVID-19 vaccine eligibility continues to grow, members of the Cornell community head to local distribution centers to get their shots.
With only one required dose, the newly authorized Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has the potential to dramatically accelerate nationwide vaccine distribution, joining the likes of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna two-dose vaccines.
Cornell students who are frontline workers are eligible for the COVID vaccine. Yet there are still challenges to receiving it.
As science is politicized and misinformation continues to spread through social media feeds like wildfire, the class teaches students how to ask questions, find reputable sources and make informed decisions — and how dangerous it can be when that doesn’t happen.