Vaccination centers in New York City had been left empty last weekend, as a local health official said, “We’ve ruined our chance to vaccinate thousands.”
Photos show that both Lincoln High School on Coney Island and George Westinghouse Vocational High School in Brooklyn were ghost towns last Saturday.
A Department of Health employee at Hillcrest High School in Queens told The New York Post, “You can’t imagine how much nothing it was. We could have used that day to vaccinate thousands of people and we just screwed up. ‘
Data shows just over 22,000 doses were administered in NYC on Saturday; Friday was more than 36,000. Vaccine trackers show that 18,866 vaccinations were given on January 30 – compared to 39,964 the day before.
A health ministry spokesman told DailyMail.com: “Our capacity to distribute far exceeds our range of vaccines. The limited supply we had was exhausted this weekend. The DOHMH locations were open that day for a limited number of scheduled appointments from the week before.
“Each dose was used over the weekend.”
The number of people vaccinated daily now far exceeds the number infected, CNN reports. A total of 102,420 people tested positive for the virus on Friday; the US performs an average of more than 1.3 million vaccinations per day.
More than 26 million are infected with the virus; 462,272 have died.
The Centers for Disease Control announced on Saturday that 8,317,180 Americans have now received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, representing 2.5 percent of the population.
30,250,964 million people have been given at least one dose of a vaccine, equivalent to 9.1 percent of the population.
Photos show Lincoln High School. pictured, and Brooklyn’s George Westinghouse Vocational High School were ghost towns last Saturday
The vaccine trackers show that half the number of vaccinations were given on Jan. 30 – 18,866 – compared to the day before – 39,964 But the daily number of people being vaccinated now exceeds the number infected, CNN reports.
City councilor Mark Treyger had tweeted a video from downtown at Lincoln High School on Coney Island, writing, “ Mostly staff and almost no one gets vaccinated. Ironically, the city’s website says there are no appointments available to my constituents today, but no one is there and they are on the vaccine stockpile. This is unacceptable @nycHealthy! ‘
City councilor Mark Treyger had tweeted a video last weekend from Lincoln High School center on Coney Island, writing, “ Mostly staff and almost no one gets vaccinated.
Ironically, the city’s website says there are no appointments available to my constituents today, but no one is there and they are on the vaccine stockpile. This is unacceptable @nycHealthy! ‘
Councilor Brad Lander shared his own images from a hub that same day, writing: ‘Heard from a voter that the same thing happened today at George Westinghouse HS in downtown Bklyn: many staff eager to help vaccinate but no appointments and no one comes in.
@NYChealthy what’s going on? We can’t have stock, we need as many weapons as possible ASAP. ‘
Yankee Stadium finally opened Friday as a COVID-19 mass vaccination site, but many of the coveted spots for appointments remain unclaimed by Bronx residents.
In a press conference on Friday with Governor Cuomo, Yankees President Randy Levine said they would “ hand out trinkets and gifts for people to encourage people. ”
The Bronx has by far the worst COVID positivity rates of anywhere in New York City, but has the lowest interest in the vaccine.
The Centers for Disease Control announced on Saturday that 8,317,180 Americans have now received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, representing 2.5 percent of the population. At least one dose of a vaccine has been administered to 30,250,964 million people, equivalent to 9.1 percent of the population
Records show that just over 22,000 doses were administered on Saturday; Friday was more than 36,000. The vaccine trackers show that half the number of vaccinations were given on January 30 – 18,866 – compared to the previous day – 39,964
After Treyger’s tweet, walk-ins were in that focus. He said, “It seemed like they were planning to just let the day go by without anyone getting vaccinated with vaccine doses in the refrigerator, which is unacceptable.”
A health ministry spokesman said the city’s 15 vaccination centers were open last weekend “to accommodate a limited number of scheduled appointments from the previous week.”
Officials say all doses had been used by the end of the weekend. They added, “Doses were scarce and there were next day appointments as well.”
The executive who worked at Hillcrest High School on Jan. 30 said he was one of 70; only 10 people got the shot, he said.
Despite this, the unidentified employee said requests to admit people without an appointment were denied.
People are standing in the rain at Yankee Stadium on Friday
The hubs had to be closed from January 21 to 24 due to delivery problems. Last week’s snowstorm also meant closures on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Lawmakers have criticized the city for its ‘poor reach’, especially among the Bronx’s large number of black and Latino residents, many of whom are wary and reluctant to take the photo.
New York City Councilor Mark Levine, who represents District 7 in New York City (Northern Manhattan), shared a screenshot of the many uncompleted appointment units on Twitter.
“There will be … vaccine applications available at Yankee Stadium next week. They don’t go away quickly, ”he says wrote on Thursday.
‘This is good news, but also bad news. It means that NYC is not helping the people on the ground enough. The city should have teams everywhere [Bronx] people sign up. ‘
Levine regretted that not enough investigation teams had been dispatched to the neighborhood to register residents.
Everyone please help spread the word. We don’t want one [appointment] lock to remain unused! he tweeted.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had distributed 59,304,600 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States and 39,037,964 doses were administered on Saturday morning.
The deals are for both Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech, vaccines from 6:00 a.m. ET Saturday, the agency said.
According to the census released on Friday, the agency had administered 36,819,212 doses of the vaccines and distributed 58,380,300 doses.
The agency said 30,250,964 people had received 1 or more doses, while 8,317,180 people had received the second dose on Saturday.
A total of 4,628,962 doses of vaccine have been administered in long-term care settings, the agency said.
