Since the County Center building is still the primary building in White Plains used to vaccinate people against COVID-19, the adjacent tents could have provided much additional space for that purpose. But rather than use them to vaccinate, Westchester County removed the tops in January supposedly to make room for additional parking, which was not needed. Then rather than complete the removal of the tents, they sit there as of February 11, 2021: unusable and still occupying possible parking spaces.
What the heck? How does that make any sense? The following post contains more detail:
$43 million County Center emergency hospital included those four HUGE unused tents being dismantled. Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Those tents have large steel structures and external equipment for plumbing and heating/cooling. People could live in them in an emergency.
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The tents were intended for COVID patients, so they should easily be useful for simple vaccination. No COVID patients ever used those tents. They were created when Westchester County and New York panicked rather than planned a year ago. Now Westchester County is further wasting the many millions of dollars spent on these tents.
Who is responsible for these decisions?
Where is the oversight?
Where is the media attention to this?
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