New York City is expected to receive another “small” 100,000 new dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, a fraction of what is needed, officials said Sunday.
As of last week, the Big Apple was managing 30,000 to 40,000 shots a day, consuming supply to the point that even a single clip from a manufacturer’s delivery chain forced the city to delay at least 23,000 close. quotes.
“We should vaccinate 400,000 a week,” said City Councilman Mark Levine (D-Manhattan), chairman of the council’s health committee.
“The new shipment to the city is expected on Tuesday, but I don’t know if they should wait for that shipment to be delivered to locations, which could push [distribution] Wednesday, “he told The Post on Sunday.
“In relation to the 2.5 million people in the five eligible municipalities [to currently be immunized] – i [as] we also vaccinate a significant number of people who do not live here: 100,000 a week is really a small sum. “
The city said last week that it had to temporarily close 15 vaccination centers between Thursday and Sunday due to Moderna’s dose supply.
Asked if all centers would reopen as planned this week, city officials told The Post on Sunday that it all depends on the flow of new doses.
The state expects to receive a total of 250,000 doses this coming week, some of which goes to the city.
The same can be said for the planned new mass vaccination centers, such as Mets ’Cets Field Stadium, which was due to open this week and hand out shots to up to 7,000 people a day, officials said.
Since Sunday, New York has used 88% of the first-dose supply of the COVID-19 vaccine, administering 1,144,070 of the 1,304,050 shots it has, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office said in a statement.
The state has a stock of 564,600 doses for the second shot needed. Of this amount, 139,929 second doses have been administered, or just under 25 percent. A person should wait at least 21 or 28 days between shots, depending on whether they first received Pfizer or Modern.
The first person to receive a vaccine in the state – and indeed in the country – was a Queens nurse in mid-December.
Cuomo said the state’s vaccination figures show “once again that the problem we face is the federal government’s lack of supply.”
“We have the operational capacity to do more than 100,000 doses a day, we just need the doses,” he said.
New York City has used 74% of the first-dose supply to date, administering 532,132 of the 717,350 shots available, according to the city’s website. The city calculates its figures slightly differently from the state, including the doses allocated and administered in the federal government-administered residential inoculation program.
As for the second doses, it has administered just under 29 percent, or 86,740, of the 301,950 supply, the city said.
“The big problem for the city is the inconsistency and lack of certainty” of the shipments, Levine said.
“It simply came to our notice then. They scheduled more appointments than supplies, ”he said, referring to the backlog of vaccines for a week.
Part of the problem was a delivery issue with the Modern manufacturer, the city reported.
But the implantation of the city and the state has been far from fluid.
Federals have accused New York of making distribution difficult with overly restrictive rules about who could get the vaccine first.
As for the city, users have booted up their overly complicated registration system, which involves a lot of different websites for different clinics.
“Oh my God,” Levine said when asked what he called “an incredibly complex system for getting a date.”
According to Johns Hopkins University, the country as a whole reached more than 25 million confirmed cases of coronavirus on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the administration of more than 21.8 million shots nationwide as of Sunday.
With publishing cables