Mayor Bill de Blasio sounded the alarm on Friday that New York City would run out of the coveted COVID-19 vaccine until next week.
“We will finish next week. I’m telling you, at this rate, there will be no doses in New York City until the end of next week if we don’t get a major supply. [of vaccine]”, Said de Blasio during the weekly spot for guests at” The Brian Lehrer Show “at WNYC.
Hizzoner explained that the Great Sea received a supply of 100,000 doses per week “very miserable” and that the city went through 125,000 photos “in the first four days of this week.”
“Our numbers are growing every day as many people as we can vaccinate,” de Blasio said, noting that nearly 34,000 people were inoculated in the city on Wednesday.
“If we do not receive a serious supply, we will have to stop making appointments, as happened at Mount Sinai Hospital and NYU-Langone,” de Blasio said. “If there is no supply, we will have to freeze the programming system. That would be crazy. “
Two of the city’s largest hospital systems, NYU-Langone and Mount Sinai, are no longer making reservations and all systems are expected to remain vaccine-free until the end of next week without supplies, the city hall said.
Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan has been forced to remove those who want to be hit this week, even though people have been scheduled to receive the shot.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, speaking later Friday at his own news conference, explained that 7 million New Yorkers are now eligible to receive the vaccine, but that there is a delay due to inadequate supply because the state receives only about 300,000 doses. per week from the federal state. government.
“It’s like opening a tailgate and putting it through a syringe,” said Cuomo, who added that the state received less than 250,000 shots this week.
At this rate, it will take six months to vaccinate all those currently eligible, the governor said.
“Seven million people are following 250,000 doses,” Cuomo said. “This is a math problem you can’t solve.”
Of the 827,715 doses administered at the state level, 731,285 were the first doses, while 96,430 were the second doses of the two-dose vaccine, Cuomo said, citing state data.
Cuomo said anyone receiving the first dose should not be “worried” that they cannot receive the second dose, even if supply is limited.
“We make sure we have a second dose for anyone who has received the first dose,” he said.
Commenting on De Blasio’s claims that New York City is about to run out of vaccine, Cuomo said: “I don’t know exactly what the mayor was talking about … Some facilities work by supplying them from the past.”
“Many facilities in New York have [vaccine] unused allocation, ”Cuomo said.
The governor added that New York City will receive more doses next week, “but it will be less because the overall allocation is lower.”
City data as of Friday shows that of the 800,500 doses administered so far in the Sea, 337,518 photos have entered people’s arms – about 42 percent.
The city administered 71.3 percent of the 175,000 vaccines it sought to distribute by the end of this weekend, according to City Hall, which said that as of Friday, the Great Sea still has less than 186,000 remaining first doses.