LI Restaurant Gets Booster Shot As Group

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY — Cases of the omicron variant topped 90 percent in New York, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While breakthrough examples are still possible, health experts say getting fully vaccinated including the COVID-19 booster shot is the best way to stem the tide of the latest wave.

Nick Milano, co-owner of Bonbino's Pizza in Rockville Centre, is continuing a tradition of having his staffers get vaccinated at the same time.

"We were all vaccinated eight months ago because my brother got sick," Milano told Patch. "He was in the hospital for 18 days."

Seeing his brother, a co-owner with Nick, get ill with the coronavirus was a wake-up call for Bonbino's workers to get the shot as a group.

Milano coordinated the booster shot for his 20 employees on Monday (and a few others got the additional shot a day before) with the help of Mount Sinai South Nassau.

Milano said his brother is "100 percent" recovered, but urges people not to hesitate and "get their booster shot; you never know what's going to happen."