They Live in an N.Y.C. Virus Hot Spot. But They Won’t Get Vaccinated.

Staten Island’s recent uptick in coronavirus cases foretold a larger increase across New York City.

On Staten Island’s South Shore, the sole mass vaccination site — an elementary school’s gymnasium — closed down this week, and was replaced by a vaccination van that has been giving fewer than 10 shots a day. A large vaccination site near a mid-island beach is quiet and may also shutter soon, a site director said. And at a nearby beach parking lot, the driver of a mobile coronavirus testing van was resting with his eyes closed in a reclined seat last Friday, as only two people, he said, had shown up for testing. “Some days we get 10 to 20 people,” said the driver, Jean Senecharles. “Some days, no one.”