Vaccination centers in New York City were left empty last weekend, as one local health official said: “We exploited our opportunity to vaccinate thousands of people.”
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 of anything it was. We could have used that day to vaccinate thousands of people and we blew it up.
Data show that just over 22,000 doses were administered in New York this Saturday; on Friday that figure was over 36,000. According to vaccine supporters, 18,866 vaccines were administered on January 30, compared to 39,964 the day before.
A Health Department spokesman told DailyMail.com: “Our distribution capacity is far superior to our vaccine supply. The limited supply we had was exhausted over the weekend. The DOHMH sites were open that one. day to accommodate a limited number of rescheduled appointments from the previous week.
“All doses were 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 U.S. makes an average of more than 1.3 million vaccines a day.
More than 26 million have been infected with the virus; 462,272 have died.
The Centers for Disease Control announced Saturday that 8,317,180 Americans have received the two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, representing 2.5 percent of the population.
At least one dose of vaccine has been administered to 30,250,964 million people, equivalent to 9.1% of the population.
The pictures show Lincoln High School. in the picture, and George Westinghouse Vocational High School in Brooklyn were ghost towns last Saturday
Vaccine trackers show half the number of vaccines given on Jan. 30 – 18,866 – compared to the previous day – 39,964, but the daily number of people vaccinated now exceeds infected figures, CNN reports
City Councilor Mark Treyger had tweeted a video of Coney Island Lincoln High School Center, writing, “Mostly the staff and almost no one is getting vaccinated. Irony is the city’s website that says that no appointments are available for my constituents today, but no one is there and is sitting on the vaccine. This is unacceptable @nycHealthy! ‘
City Councilman Mark Treyger had tweeted a video at Coney Island Lincoln High School Center last weekend, writing, “Mostly the staff and almost no one is getting vaccinated.
“Ironically it’s the city website that says no appointments are available for my constituents today, but no one is there and is sitting on the supply of vaccines. That’s unacceptable @nycHealthy! ‘
Councilor Brad Lander shared his own images of a center that day, and wrote: “I learned of a component that the same thing happened today at George Westinghouse HS in the center of Bklyn: a lot of staff looking forward to help vaccinate, but no appointments and no one enters.
“@NYChealthy what’s up? We can’t sit on supply, we need as many shots in the arms as possible.”
Yankee Stadium finally opened Friday as a COVID-19 mass vaccination site, but many of the coveted dating sites remain unclaimed by Bronx residents.
At a news conference Friday with Gov. Cuomo, Yankees President Randy Levine said they would hand out “trinkets and gifts to the people, to help encourage people.”
The Bronx has by far the worst COVID positivity rates anywhere in New York City, but it has the lowest interest in the vaccine.
The Centers for Disease Control announced Saturday that 8,317,180 Americans have received the two 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
Data show that just over 22,000 doses were administered on Saturday; on Friday that figure was over 36,000. Vaccine trackers show half the number of vaccines given on January 30 – 18,866 – compared to the previous day – 39,964
After Treyger’s tweets, they were in this center. He said: “It looked like they were planning to let the day go by without anyone getting vaccinated with doses of vaccine in the fridge, which is unacceptable.”
A spokesman for the Department of Health said the city’s 15 vaccination centers were open last weekend “to accommodate a limited number of rescheduled appointments from the previous week”.
Officials say all doses were used over the weekend. They added: “Doses were scarce and there were appointments the next day as well.”
Staff working at Hillcrest High School on Jan. 30 said he was one of 70 working; said only 10 people received the puncture.
Despite this, the unidentified worker said that the applications to allow those who did not have an appointment were denied.
People line up in the rain in front of Yankee Stadium on Friday
The centers had already been forced to close from 21 to 24 January due to supply problems. Last week’s snowstorm also meant closures on Monday and Tuesday.
Lawmakers have criticized the city for its “poor outreach,” especially among the large number of black and Latino Bronx residents, many of whom are wary and reluctant to receive the shot.
New York City Councilman Mark Levine, who represents New York City’s 7th District (north of Manhattan), shared on Twitter a screenshot of the numerous time slots for appointments that have not been filled.
“There are still … vaccine applications available at Yankee Stadium next week. They’re not going away anytime soon he wrote Thursday.
“This is good news, but also bad news. It means New York is not doing enough outreach with the people on the ground. The city should have teams across the territory. [Bronx] enrolling people “.
Levine lamented that not enough campaign equipment had been sent to the city to register residents.
“Everyone, please help spread the word. We don’t want any [appointment] slot not to be used! 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 that 39,037,964 doses had been administered since Saturday morning.
Forecasts are for both Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech, vaccines starting at 6:00 am ET on Saturday, the agency said.
According to its account released Friday, the agency had administered 36,819,212 doses of 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 as of Saturday.
A total of 4,628,962 doses of vaccine have been administered in long-term care centers, according to the agency.
