The Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio assured this Tuesday that the city was practically without vaccines against the coronavirus, plans to open stadiums during the vaccination campaign have been suspended and recommends not making plans with groups of people until the summer.
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De Blasio pointed out in a press conference that the city has only 7,700 doses of vaccines against covid-19 and asked federal authorities to use the doses reserved for the second dose, even with the risk that the vaccinees will not be delivered within the expected time. would get. the second injection required.
“We are stuck, we cannot perform vaccinations because we do not have enough vaccines,” explains the Mayor of New York. that he has been forced to cancel appointments to vaccinate and suspend plans indefinitely to enable the stadiums of the Yankees and Citi Field for a massive vaccination campaign as there are no injections.
We are stuck, we cannot perform vaccinations because we do not have enough vaccines
De Blasio said he has 100,000 reserved doses that are not being used and that he has asked federal authorities and President Joe Biden’s new administration for permission to release them.
The city council expects to receive 107,000 doses between Tuesday and Wednesday vaccines against covid-19 and opposing postponed vaccination appointments. “Let’s use what we have now because we are already seeing efforts to improve production,” said De Blasio.
“We are determined to make sure everyone gets their second dose, but we are deficient (…) We are not living in a perfect world, we are totally deficient,” said the official, recalling that the second dose can be delayed without losing effectiveness when it comes to immunization against coronavirus.
Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York.
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De Blasio said that given the lack of progress in the vaccination campaign, “he wouldn’t be planning a wedding this spring.” and we will have to wait until the summer to see the effects of immunization on the evolution of the pandemic.
The delivery of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, both of which are currently approved, has been slower than expected, due to poor coordination between the federal government and states as well as manufacturing difficulties.
Moderna said on Tuesday that it was meeting deadlines agreed with the US government, which has already delivered 30 million doses and it hopes to be able to send the 100 million committed doses by the end of March this year.
EFE
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