Carmilla31 t1_j9g0t09 wrote
Not to mention renting the Javits center and getting a hospital boat that no one even used.
jay5627 t1_j9g8ni9 wrote
Javits Center was really convenient for getting the vaccine
Carmilla31 t1_j9gb1in wrote
I got it a local pharmacy pretty easy.
drpvn t1_j9gfhla wrote
Without having to schlep all the way to the Hudson.
DJBabyB0kCh0y t1_j9ghhum wrote
And nobody with machine guns pushing you thru the line. I also got mine at a local pharmacy the first day I could. I was having a drink and the bartender told me they got vaccine next door. I said keep my tab open I'll be right back. 5 minutes in and out.
gigawort t1_j9husui wrote
Maybe you got in and out easy because hundreds of thousands of people got theirs at Javits & other mass vax sites.
Carmilla31 t1_j9gieex wrote
Why am i being downvoted for saying i had an easy time getting the vaccine at a pharmacy? :o
DJBabyB0kCh0y t1_j9gogxb wrote
I dunno I didn't downvote you. Maybe people think you're implying we didn't need Javits. At the time we definitely needed anything that would get more vaccines out there. Personally I waited until I could get it in my neighborhood which was only a few days after my age bracket opened up.
Guypussy t1_j9gro9j wrote
Probably members of the Javits family.
lantonas t1_j9ipxbx wrote
SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Old Westbury, and Westchester County Center all had field hospitals that closed without seeing a single patient.
Total Cost: $320,976,632
sulaymanf t1_j9ipss7 wrote
Doctor here and I sent patients over there.
The Javits center was helpful because we needed beds. However since it wasn’t a hospital with all the associated services we had to restrict who could go to Javits center. Anyone who couldn’t walk couldn’t get transferred there. Neither could anyone who needed specialty consults. No children, no pregnant women. Nobody on a ventilator and anyone who looked like they would go on a vent we held in the hospital in case they crashed. So we offloaded a lot of the “healthier” patients there who just needed oxygen.
The USS Comfort was a hospital ship but they also had limitations. They required a complicated set of steps to do a hospital-to-hospital transfer of a patient, and they asked for no women or children and they had limited specialists; if you needed a cardiologist they shouldn’t get transferred.
In the end NY was able to flatten the curve and after a few weeks the need for both was lessened.
bottom t1_j9gc782 wrote
damn, we have to made global pandemic more efficient ! 🤦♂️
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