Vaccination centers in New York were empty last weekend, as a local health official said: “We’ve had a chance to vaccinate thousands.”
The images show both Lincoln High School in Coney Island and George Westinghouse Vocational High School in Brooklyn were ghost towns last Saturday.
A Health Department employee at Hillcrest High School in Queens told The New York Post: “You can’t imagine how much nothing was. We could have used that day to vaccinate thousands of people and we just blew it.
Data shows that just over 22,000 doses were given in New York on Saturday; on Friday this figure was higher than 36,000. Vaccine followers show that 18,866 vaccinations were given on January 30 – compared to 39,964 the day before.
A spokesman for the Department of Health told DailyMail.com: “Our distribution capacity is much higher than our vaccine supply. The limited offer I had was sold out over the weekend. The DOHMH sites were opened that day to host a limited number of rescheduled meetings from the previous week.
“Each dose was used over the weekend.”
The daily number of people vaccinated now far exceeds the number infected, CNN reports. A total of 102,420 people tested positive for the virus on Friday; The US carries an average of more than 1.3 million vaccinations a day.
More than 26 million have been infected with the virus; 462,272 died.
The Centers for Disease Control announced on Saturday that 8,317,180 Americans have now received both doses of COVID-19 vaccine, worth 2.5% of the population.
At least one dose of vaccine was given to 30,250,964 million people, representing 9.1% of the population.
The photos show Lincoln High School. pictured, and George Westinghouse Vocational High School in Brooklyn were ghost towns last Saturday
Vaccine followers show that half of the number of vaccinations were administered on January 30 – 18,866 – compared to the previous day – 39,964, but the daily number of people vaccinated now exceeds the infected number, CNN reports
City Councilor Mark Treyger wrote a video on Twitter at the Lincoln High School in Coney Island, writing: “Mostly staff and almost no one gets vaccinated. The irony is the city’s website says it doesn’t have meetings available for my constituents today, but no one is there and I’m on the vaccine. This is unacceptable @nycHealthy! ‘
City Councilor Mark Treyger posted a video on Twitter at Lincoln High School in Coney Island last weekend, writing: “Mostly staff and almost no one gets vaccinated.
“The irony is the city’s website, which says no meetings are available for my constituents today, but no one is there and I have the vaccine. This is unacceptable @nycHealthy! ‘
Councilor Brad Lander shared his own images from a hub the same day, writing: “I heard from an electorate that the same thing happened today at George Westinghouse HS in downtown Bklyn: Lots of employees eager to help with vaccination , but without meetings and no one enters.
“@NYChealthy what’s going on? We can’t stand the supply, we need as many shots in our arms as possible.
Yankee Stadium finally opened as a COVID-19 mass vaccination site on Friday, but many of the coveted venues remain unchallenged by Bronx residents.
At a news conference Friday with Governor Cuomo, Yankees President Randy Levine said they would provide “trinkets and gifts for people to help stimulate people.”
The Bronx has by far the worst COVID positivity rates anywhere in New York, but it has the lowest interest in the vaccine.
The Centers for Disease Control announced on Saturday that 8,317,180 Americans now receive both doses of COVID-19, accounting for 2.5 percent of the population. At least one dose of vaccine was administered to 30,250,964 million people, representing 9.1% of the population
Data show that just over 22,000 doses were given on Saturday; on Friday this figure was higher than 36,000. Vaccine monitors show that half of the vaccinations were given on January 30 – 18,866 – compared to the previous day – 39,964
Following Treyger’s tweets, they were in that center. He said: “It seemed that he intended to let the day go by without anyone getting vaccinated with vaccine doses in the refrigerator, which is unacceptable.”
A spokesman for the Department of Health said the city’s 15 vaccination centers were opened last weekend “to host a limited number of rescheduled meetings from the previous week.”
Officials say all doses were used by the end of the weekend. They added: “The doses were insufficient and there were appointments the next day.”
Staff working at Hillcrest High School on Jan. 30 said he was one of 70 working; said only 10 people.
Despite this, the unidentified worker said that applications for authorization of those without an appointment had been rejected.
People line up in the rain outside Yankee Stadium on Friday
The centers have already been forced to close on January 21-24 due to supply problems. Last week’s snowstorm also meant closures on Monday and Tuesday.
Lawmakers have criticized the city for its “bad work,” especially among the large number of black and Latino residents in the Bronx, many of whom are cautious and reluctant to get shot.
New York City Councilor Mark Levine, who represents District 7 in New York City (northern Manhattan), shared on Twitter a screenshot of the numerous slots for unfilled meetings.
“There are still … vaccine applications available at Yankee Stadium next week. I don’t disappear fast, ‘he said wrote on Thursday.
“This is good news – but also bad news. It means New York is not providing enough information to people on the ground. The city should have teams everywhere [Bronx] enrolling people. ‘
Levine complained that not enough survey teams were sent to the neighborhood to enroll residents.
“Please help everyone spread the word. We don’t want one [appointment] slot to stay unused! wrote on Twitter.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it distributed 59,304,600 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States and that 39,037,964 doses had been administered since Saturday morning.
The accounts are for both Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech, vaccines starting at 6:00 ET on Saturday, the agency said.
According to its number published on Friday, the agency administered 36,819,212 doses of vaccines and distributed 58,380,300 doses.
The agency said 30,250,964 people received 1 or more doses, while 8,317,180 people received the second dose as of Saturday.
A total of 4,628,962 doses of the vaccine were given in long-term care units, the agency said.
