The city’s 15 vaccination hubs were ghost towns last Saturday, and the city Department of Health is refusing to reveal just how bad distribution went. One DOH staffer stationed at the Hillcrest High School hub in Queens on Jan. 30 said he did nothing all day. “You cannot imagine how much nothing it was,” he said of the demoralizing day. He said there were about 70 workers on hand — some earning overtime pay for 12-hour shifts — and about 10 people to vaccinate. The worker said several appeals were made to DOH officials to be able to vaccinate people without appointments, and they were denied. He said the hubs had about 400 to 700 doses. “We could have used that day to vaccinate thousands of people … and we just blew it,” he said The issue of the empty sites was first brought to light by City Councilman Mark Treyger who tweeted a video of an empty hub at Coney Island’s Lincoln High School. George Westinghouse Vocational High School in Brooklyn had a similar problem, Councilman Brad Lander tweeted. more ...