The Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, said on Tuesday that the city was virtually without vaccines against coronavirus, Suspended his plans to open stadiums during the immunization campaign and does not recommend making plans with groups of people until the summer.
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De Blasio pointed out at a press conference that the city only has 7,700 doses of covid-19 vaccines and called on federal authorities to use the doses reserved for the second dose, still at risk of vaccinations not being received in the expected time the second injection required.
“We’re stuck, we can’t get vaccinated because we don’t have enough vaccines,” the New York mayor explained. who has been forced to cancel appointments to vaccinate and suspend plans indefinitely to enable Yankees and Citi Field stadiums for a massive vaccination campaign, as there are no injections.
We are stuck, we can’t get vaccinated because we don’t have enough vaccines
De Blasio said he has 100,000 reserved doses that are not being used and that he asked permission from federal authorities and the new administration of President Joe Biden to release.
The city council expects to receive between 107,000 doses this Tuesday and Wednesday of vaccines against covid-19 and reschedule postponed vaccination appointments. “We are using what we have right now, because we are already seeing efforts to improve production,” De Blasio said.
“We are committed to getting everyone to receive their second dose, but we are experiencing scarcity (…) We do not live in a perfect world, we have total scarcity,” said the official, who recalled that the second dose can be delayed without it loses effectiveness when it comes to immunizing against the 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 “I would not plan any weddings this spring.” and we will have to wait until the summer to see the effects of immunization on the evolution of the pandemic.
The administration of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, both authorized at the moment, is being slower than expected, both because of poor coordination between the federal government and states and because of production difficulties.
Moderna said on Tuesday that it is meeting deadlines committed to the US government, which has already delivered 30 million doses and expects to be able to ship the committed 100 million doses before the end of March this year.
EFE
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