Vaccination centers in New York City were emptied over the weekend as one local health official said, “We blew our chance to vaccinate thousands.”
Images show that Lincoln High School on Coney Island and George Westinghouse Vocational High School in Brooklyn were ghost towns last Saturday.
One health department at Hillcrest High School in Queens told The New York Post: ‘You can not imagine how much nothing it was. We could have used that day to vaccinate thousands of people and we just blew it up. ‘
Data show that just over 22,000 doses were administered this Saturday in NYC; On Friday, it was more than 36,000. There were vaccinations against vaccine detectives on January 30, 18686 compared to 39,964 the previous day.
A Department of Health spokesman told DailyMail.com: ‘Our ability to spread is far greater than our stock of vaccine. The limited supply we had was exhausted over the weekend. DOHMH websites were open that day to accommodate a limited number of rescheduled appointments from the previous week.
“Every dose was used during the weekend.”
The daily number of people vaccinated now exceeds the numbers infected, CNN reports. A total of 102,420 people tested positive for the virus on Friday; the US consumes an average of more than 1.3 million vaccinations per day.
More than 26 million were infected with the virus; 462 272 died.
The Centers for Disease Control announced Saturday that 8,317,180 Americans now receive both doses of COVID-19 vaccine, accounting for 2.5 percent of the population.
At least one dose of a vaccine was administered to 30,250,964 million people, equivalent to 9.1 percent of the population.
Photos show Lincoln High School. pictured, and George Westinghouse Vocational High School in Brooklyn were ghost towns last Saturday
The vaccine detectives show that half of the number of vaccinations given on January 30 – 18,866 – compared to the previous day – 39,964 But the daily number of people vaccinated now exceeds the numbers infected, CNN reports
City Councilman Mark Treyger tweeted video of the center at Lincoln High School on Coney Island and wrote: ‘Mostly staff and almost no one is vaccinated. Irony is the city’s website and says that there are no appointments available to my voters today, but no one is there and they are sitting with vaccine. This is unacceptable @nycHealthy! ‘
City Councilman Mark Treyger tweeted a video of the center at Lincoln High School on Coney Island this past weekend, writing: ‘Mostly staff and almost no one is vaccinated.
‘Irony is the city’s website and says there are no appointments available for my voters today, but no one is there and they are sitting with vaccine. This is unacceptable @nycHealthy! ‘
Councilor Brad Lander shared his own footage of a center the same day and wrote: ‘Heard from a voter that the same thing happened today in George Westinghouse HS in the center of Bklyn: Many staff would like to be vaccinated, but no appointments and no one do not come in.
‘@NYChealthy what’s going on? We can not put on stock, we need as many gunshots as possible. ‘
Yankee Stadium finally opened on Friday as a COVID-19 mass vaccination site, but many of the coveted venues for appointments are still unclaimed by Bronx residents.
Randy Levine, president of the Yankees, said at a news conference with the Cuomo government on Friday that they would “hand out trinkets and gifts to 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 now receive both doses of COVID-19 vaccine, accounting for 2.5 percent of the population. At least one dose of a vaccine was 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, it was more than 36,000. The vaccine trackers show half the amount of vaccinations given on 30 January – 18 866 – compared to the previous day – 39 964
Following Treyger’s tweet walk-in, the center was in the center. He said: “It seemed like they were going to just let the day go by without anyone being vaccinated at all with vaccine doses in the fridge, which is unacceptable.”
A health department spokesman said the city’s 15 vaccination centers were open this past weekend ‘to accommodate a limited number of rescheduled appointments from the previous week’.
Officials say all doses were used by the end of the weekend. They added: “There was a shortage of doses and there were also appointments the next day.”
The staff who worked at Hillcrest High School on Jan. 30 said he was one of 70 working; only ten people got the jab, he said.
Nevertheless, the unidentified worker said that requests to allow those without appointments were denied.
People stand in the rain outside Yankee Stadium on Friday
The hubs had to be 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 blamed the city for the ‘bad outreach’, especially among the high number of black and Latino residents in the Bronx, many of whom are cautious and reluctant to take the chance.
New York City Councilman Mark Levine, who represents District 7 in New York (North Manhattan), shared a screenshot of the many unfilled appointment slots on Twitter.
‘There are still … vaccine programs available at Yankee Stadium next week. They are not disappearing fast, ‘he said wrote on Thursday.
‘This is good news – but also bad news. That means NYC is not doing enough people on the ground. The city must have teams all over the country [Bronx] people sign up. ‘
Levine lamented that not enough yard crews had been sent into the city to report residents.
‘Everyone please help spread the word. We do not want one [appointment] lock to be unused! he tweeted.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they had distributed 59,304,600 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States and that 39,037,964 doses had been administered as of Saturday morning.
The agency said the tariffs for both Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech have been vaccinated.
According to the report published on Friday, the agency administered 36,819,212 doses of vaccines and distributed 58,380,300 doses.
According to the agency, 30,250,964 people received 1 or more doses, while 8,317,180 people received the second dose as of Saturday.
A total of 4,628,962 doses of vaccine were administered in long-term care facilities, the agency said.
