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On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio made a “whale” of an advertisement: the American Museum of Natural History will be remodeled into a vaccine opposed to COVID-19.
“It’s an exciting new effort and I assure you that many other people will say, “That’s where I need to get vaccinated,” he said of Blasio.
New Yorkers can begin to be photographed under the museum’s iconic blue whale style starting this Friday, April 23.
Turning the highest cultural video establishment in this city and country into a vaccine will increase the number of vaccines. “The more, the better, the more there is, the more other people feel comfortable,” he said of Blasio.
All New Yorkers can be vaccinated on site, but residents of social housing, cultural workers, DC37 union members, members of the American Federation of States, county and municipal employees, and the museum will take precedence in the first place, De Blasio said.
On Monday, more than 5,746,370 New York City citizens won at least one injection of the vaccine, according to city data.
“I can really believe this, we’ll see photographs of New Yorkers emptying under the whale and it will be a snapshot of New Yorkers fighting, taking care of each other. and the days when things started to get better,” said Ellen Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History. Array, who soon joined De Blasio for the announcement.
The 150-year-old establishment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side closed for six months last year due to the pandemic and reopened to the general public with reduced capacity and masking protocols for visitors last September.
New Yorkers interested in making an appointment for vaccination can do so in New York. Gov/VaccineFinder or call 877-VAX-4NYC.
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