Nassau Launches New Travelling Vaccination Program

WESTBURY, NY — Starting today, Nassau County businesses can schedule appointments for Department of Health personnel to come to their businesses to offer coronavirus vaccines to their employees.

The new initiative was announced today by County Executive Laura Curran outside of Cafe Baci in Westbury, where the first shots under the program were administered to employees. Businesses owners can call 516-227-9570 to schedule an appointment.

"With many businesses now requiring vaccines, we at Nassau County want to make it as easy as possible for those businesses," Curran said. The county will administer doses of the Moderna vaccine to employees 18 and older.

Curran said the new program is part of the county's goal to get all residents vaccinated against the coronavirus. As of today, Curran said that 82.8 percent of Nassau County adults have received at least one dose of the vaccine — the highest vaccination rate of any county in New York. But despite that, the extremely contagious delta variant of the coronavirus is spreading among the unvaccinated.

"As we see, the fight against coronavirus is not over," Curran said. "The delta variant is significantly more infections than other variants of this virus, and it is driving an uptick in new cases."

Dr. Lawrence Eisenstein, the county's health commissioner, touted the effectiveness of the coronavirus vaccines in not only preventing the disease, but significantly reducing its impact if you do contract it. Getting more people vaccinated is the key to stopping the spread of the disease, he said.

"We're making it as easy as possible," Eisenstein said. "Show up at your workplace, and we'll take care of everything else."