Residents Offer Suggestions To Improve Roosevelt Island Covid 19 Testing And Vaccination Service, Is Anybody Listening? Cheers To Local Nisi Restaurant For Providing Free Hot Chocolate To Freezing Roosevelt Island Residents Waiting On 3-4 Hour Line For Covid Testing, Latest Covid Stats Too

The
NYC Health & Hospitals
contractor
DocGo Mobile
Covid Test and Vaccination Unit Van arrived for a Roosevelt Island week long stay at Good Shepherd Plaza last Monday. 

Today, Friday December 24th, is the last day scheduled for now.

While the mobile
DocGo Covid
and Vaccination Unit Roosevelt Island service was needed and welcomed this week, there were problems
each day starting last Monday with long wait lines of 3-4 hours in the
freezing cold.

Comments from
Roosevelt Islander Instagram yesterday:

  • Waited for 3 hours. It’s insane how long it took. But I have to say everyone
    was very courteous and helpful.
  • They were terrible. Was in line for 4 hours and it was avoidable. They never
    told us you had to register until you joined the line. Public safety
    could’ve have the code for people to do that instead of leaving the line and
    coming back. Then they ran out of PCR’s. Instead of having one person do
    testing and are in that line, and other in a line for COVID vaccines they
    just let those wanting to get vaccinated just can walk up to the van and do
    it! Public safety didn’t help at all with the overflow. They just allowed
    some random person to walk up and ask questions while holding up the line
    causing the testing to stop! The mobile van has about 5-6 people in there
    and it makes no sense you have one person doing testing and then they stop
    to do COVD vaccines or assist someone else with all those people in there.
    What also made that set up worse? They had someone in that van not wearing a
    mask!

More suggestions for improving the service next time on Roosevelt Island here.

Roosevelt Island resident Josina Baez adds:

Why did the residents of Roosevelt Island have to stand for many hours on a
very cold and windy plaza, when across the street we have a covered and better
protected sidewalk?

What is so complicated that when it is your turn, a Public Safety officer
guides you across the street to the
DocGo van?
There were many elderly and handicapped residents standing for 3-4 hours in
bitter cold, that was dangerous, unsafe and unhealthy !

I did go to the Public Safety Office to ask if it was possible to make the
move to the covered sidewalk and the answer was that “they” would take it
into consideration.

NISI restaurant provided free hot chocolate which brought big smiles and
greatly appreciated !

THANK YOU NISI ! 

According to NYC Health Department, the most recent 7 Day Covid Testing Data from December 14 – 20 for
Roosevelt Island (Zip Code 10044 ) shows 932 people tested and 78 Positive
Cases for a rate of 8.37%.

 As previously reported
the:

… 7 Day Covid Testing Data from December 13 – 19 for Roosevelt Island (Zip
Code 10044 ) shows 980 people tested and 79 Positive Cases for a rate of
8.06%….

…
7 Day Covid Testing Data
from December 11 – 17, on Roosevelt Island (Zip Code 10044 ) shows 835
people tested and 51 Positive Case for a rate of 6.11%

 7 Day Covid Testing Data
from December 10 – 16, on Roosevelt Island (Zip Code 10044 ) shows 778
people tested and 36 Positive Case for a rate of 4.63% 

7 Day Covid Testing Data
from December 7 – 13 for Roosevelt Island (Zip Code 10044 ) – 813 people
were tested and 33 Positive Case for a rate of 4.06%.  

7 Day Covid Testing Data
from December 6 – 12, when the
Covid Mobile Test Van was here
on Roosevelt Island (Zip Code 10044 ), 973 people were tested resulting in
30 Positive Case for a rate of 3.08%. 

7 Day Covid Testing Data
from November 24 – November 30  for Roosevelt Island Zip Code 10044
shows 578 people tested and 15 Positive Case for a rate of 2.6%…



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