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Vaccination sites in the New York subway area will close on Monday due to an impending winter storm that is expected to throw up to 16 inches of snow on the area.

Winter storm warnings were issued on Sunday for much of the eastern United States, disrupting vaccinations in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, New Jersey and elsewhere.

Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he did not want older New Yorkers on their way to vaccinations and warned of blizzard-like conditions with gusty winds. The vaccinations scheduled for Tuesday in New York City have not been canceled for the time being, de Blasio said.

The storm will temporarily disrupt the vaccine rollout in New York City, which is plagued by inadequate supplies, faulty registration systems, and confusion over the state’s stringent licensing policies. The vaccine is available to residents aged 65 and over, as well as a large number of workers classified as “essential”.

About 800,000 doses have been administered in the city so far, de Blasio said.

Vaccine appointments at multiple locations in the area – the Javits Center in Manhattan, the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, a transit point on Jones Beach on Long Island, SUNY Stony Brook and the Westchester County Center – are postponed for this week, according to a statement from this week Melissa DeRosa, a top advisor to Governor Andrew Cuomo. “We are asking all New Yorkers to monitor the weather and stay out of the streets tomorrow so our crews and first responders can do their jobs safely,” she said.

In the Philadelphia area, urban testing and vaccination sites will be closed on Monday. Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and parts of the DC, Maryland, and Virginia areas followed suit. Some areas outside the center of the storm were expected to remain open for vaccination, including parts of Massachusetts and New York state.

In Oregon, a storm on Tuesday resulted in a group of health officials hauling vaccines to be offered to drivers stuck on the side of the road shortly before their expiration date.

The rollout in New York City was also hampered by distribution problems and severe racial differences, according to de Blasio, with residents of black and Latino receiving far fewer doses than residents of white.

The city’s demographics were incomplete, but the numbers so far have been remarkable: of the nearly 300,000 city dwellers who received a dose and whose race was recorded, about 48 percent were white, 15 percent were Latinos, 15 percent were Asian, and 11 percent were black . The Latino and Black residents were underrepresented: the city’s population is 29 percent Latinos and 24 percent black.

Attempts to provide more vaccination kits to underserved communities in Brooklyn and the Bronx, including churches and public housing areas, were also delayed this week as six pop-up locations in the two counties were moved to Wednesday. Ms. DeRosa said.

As the holiday season draws back and the long length of the winter months approaches, you can fight the mood or embrace it. Here is a playlist of cold weather podcasts, some fiction, some nonfiction, all of which are well told and produced, and all lying in the snow.

For music theater nerds:

Audio dramas – podcasting parlance for fictional podcasts – can sometimes get into trouble if a show is done too well. If a fiction presented in true crime style is too perfect in its imitation, the audience can feel betrayed (see: the angry reviewers of “Heads of the Sierra Blanca”). While “In Strange Woods” begins with your standard reporter ‘s tale of a teenager disappearing in the snowy woods of Minnesota, any matter of verité is completely resolved in minutes when the characters break into a song. If you don’t love musical theater then you can skip it. But the vocal performances are beautiful; The songs add drama in a way that manages don’t be annoying; and the protagonist of the series, a little sister mourning her brother, makes for an exciting story that is still unfolding – so far, three “chapters” of the limited series with five episodes have been published.

For storytellers:

The magic of live storytelling podcasts like “The Moth” and “Snap Judgment” lies in the way they break down the space between your headphones and the speaker on stage. Dark Winter Nights began in 2014 with the aim of making Alaskan stories accessible to anyone who wants to listen. These live event recordings are intended to transport you into “the stories we tell here in Alaska on dark winter nights,” according to presenter and creator Robert Prince, professor of documentary film at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Stories range from great to worldly, like a blind Alaskan woman who finally “sees” a whale on a trip with her family, or someone else who runs away from unusually alert bears.

For sports fans:

When it comes to cold weather athletics and a beautiful sounding story, most podheads probably think of Rose Eveleth’s “On the Ice” episode for the ESPN podcast series “30 for 30”. In this classic piece of sports journalism, Eveleth tells the story of the women who led the first all-female trek to the North Pole in 1997 (“no expedition experience required”, read the classified ad she drew). While the challenge at the center of the story seems to be the cruel conditions of the Arctic, the beauty in it comes not only from the women’s journey to the top of the world, but also from the life they left behind. If you miss the Winter Olympics and the stories of women athletes triumphing against impossible odds, try Bonnie Ford’s episode “Out of the Woods” about the 1984 kidnapping of Olympic biathlete Kari Swenson.

For true criminal freaks:

Wondery went on to become a great podcast player by producing lively and bingeable series, and one thing is clear: true crime. And as all good true crime fans know, there’s nothing more tempting than breaking a cold case. With Wondery as a partner, Salt Lake TV station KSL did just that in the case of Susan Powell, a mother of two from Utah, who disappeared on a stormy evening in December 2009. After her husband, Josh, the main suspect, killed himself and their sons in a fire two years later, local police declared the case closed. But with the help of Wondery, KSL reporter Dave Cawley searches the evidence, conducts new interviews, and discovers the dark legacy of psychological and emotional abuse within the Powell family in this well-told and bingeworthy 18-episode series.

For children:

Children (and their adults) who love the X-Men and other stories of adolescents with innate powers will be lost in this fictional saga. “Six Minutes” tells the story of Holiday, an 11-year-old with total amnesia who is found floating in the icy waters of Alaska by the Anders family. They immediately adopt her and tell Holiday that she is their own. But her veiled past is slowly being revealed, along with some superhuman abilities. The story is told in six minute increments and results in an epic 200 epic adventure.

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