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Covid vaccine comes to Elmont New inoculation distribution site opens at Belmont Park of the state’s Vaccine Distribution and Implementation Task Force, which comprises experts One day after County Legis- in public health, data and other lator Carrié Solages publicly relevant fields, and by the Vaccalled for a vaccination distri- cine Equity Task Force, which, bution center in the 3rd Legis- Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a lative District, which includes news release, seeks to “break Elmont and Lawrence, on Jan. down barriers to vaccination 5, Northwell Health opened a and ensure there is equitable vaccination site at distribution Belmont Park as a across the state.” public-private partWith that in nership with the m i n d , M at t h ew state. Harris, Northwell N ew Yo rk re Health’s medical ceives the Pfizer director for and Moderna corore gional pods, navirus vaccines said that health from the federal system of ficials gover nment and are trying to set distributes them to CARRIé soLAGes up distribution counties and hos- County Legislator sites in areas that pitals, which have been disprorequest a certain portionately afnumber of doses from the state fected by the virus. based on the community’s Studies show that majoritydemand each week. All doses minority communities like must be administered to eligi- Elmont have had higher rates ble residents within a week of Covid-19 hospitalizations after they are received, accord- and deaths than predominantly ing to state guidelines, and white communities since the facilities must notify the state pandemic began last March, Department of Health if they and in November, the Centers are not on pace to administer for Disease Control and Preventhem all. tion reported that AfricanThe vaccines are allocated Americans are 1.4 times more based on the recommendations Continued on page 7
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Courtesy Gina Pugliese
toNY PUGLIese, A second-grader at the John Street School, became interested in the art of claymation when he watched a special last March starring the popular clay character Morph, and has since created a clay figure of himself.
A claymation kid from F.S. Tony Pugliese’s work recognized by producer
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After watching a special starring the popular children’s video character Morph last March, Tony Pugliese decided to do some research on Morph, and discovered that he was made of clay — as were the characters in one of Tony’s favorite Christmas
movies, “Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer.” Tony started sculpting his own figures out of everything he could get his hands on, and took a virtual claymation — clay animation — class when Franklin Square schools switched to remote learning last spring. Now, at the age of only 7, Tony’s work has been featured on U.K.-based Aard-
man Studios’ Twitter account. He submitted his work to the studio — which has created a number of claymation shows over the years, like “Morph,” “Wallace and Grommit” and “Shaun the Sheep” — using his mother’s email because, he said, he was proud of his work, and earlier this month, his mother, Gina, Continued on page 5