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Steve Martinis sharing his positive experience of getting thecoronavirusvaccine.
In a series of tweets posted Sunday, the actor and comedian jokingly shared the “good news” and “bad news,” writing, “Ijust got vaccinated! Bad news: I got it because I’m 75. Ha!”
In response to one user who asked how he got the vaccine, thePlanes, Trains, and Automobilesstar said, “I signed up ON line through an NYC dot gov website (sorry I don’t have the exact site),and waited IN line at theJavits Center.”
Leveraging his signature humorin a third tweet, Martin said of his lack of reaction after receiving the vaccine, “Right now, I’m having no fide resects.”
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Martin joins a list of celebrities over the age of 65 who have gotten the vaccine, includingJudi DenchandMartha Stewart.
Dench, 86, shared in an interview with the BBC News thatshe has had one shot of the vaccineand will get the booster dose in several weeks.
“I had one a week ago so I think my next is something like 11 weeks' time, that’s a great start!” she said, according to theDaily Mail. (The United Kingdom became thefirst Western country to roll out the vaccinein December.)
On Jan. 11, Stewart, 79,shared a videoofherself getting the vaccineat the Martha Stewart Center for Living in New York City, assuring the public that she “waited in line with the others” and did not “[jump] the line.”
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New Yorkers flocked to Brooklyn Army Terminal in the borough’s Sunset Park neighborhood on Thursday night after a fake WhatsApp message went out earlier that afternoonpromising vaccine doses to anyone in the area.
Whilethe anonymous message was wrong, the distribution site was inundated with walk-ins as a result, creating confusion among people who had actual appointments.
“There is NOT available vaccine for people without appointments. This was misinformation and the notification did not come from the NYC gov,“Bill Neidhardt, press secretary for Mayor Bill de Blasio,posted on Twitter.
Currently, health-care workers, nursing-home residents, teachers, school staff, first responders, public-transit workers, public-safety workers and people over 65 are eligible for the vaccine in New York City. But even for those groups, getting an appointment has beendifficult due to demandand issues with the website.
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