Saratoga County Board of Supervisors Chair Theodore "Todd" Kusnierz said the county has over a dozen-and-a-half locations for vaccine distribution, once vaccines become available, and the county has entered an agreement with the City of Saratoga Springs to use the City Center as a location for mass inoculations.
He estimates that statewide about 600,000 doses will be ready in the weeks ahead.
“We here in Saratoga County are ready to hit the ground running once the vaccine becomes available in mass quantities,” he said during a press conference earlier today.
The state has already been getting 300,000 doses weekly, but many Saratogians have had to go to the Albany area to receive shots.
Supervisor Tara Gaston of Saratoga Springs, chair of the board’s health committee, thanked all those involved to make the City Center, at 522 Broadway in the city, available.
“It’s available for 24/7 use, and we could move thousands of individuals and get them vaccinated very quickly through that facility,” she said.
She echoed quickly what Kusnierz had said: all the county needs is the vaccine which is doled out by officials in Albany. The county has not yet heard when that will happen.
Despite that, the county is moving quickly, Gaston said, “to prove to the governor that we are ready, willing and available.”
To that end, all county departments have been charged with doing what they can to help in the COVID response.
“We are going to earmark $600,000 in additional funding to be utilized by the Public Health Department, and any other, that will be able to assist us on our COVID response,” Kuznierz said. Kusnierz was elected chair of the board of supervisors earlier this year on a platform to control the spread of COVID.