Posted on January 15, 2021 at 09:39 by Carol Tannenhauser
By Carol Tannenhauser
Mt. Sinai Hospital canceled all vaccinations from Friday 15 January to Tuesday 19 January – a sudden and surprising change for those on the list. People who had appointments on those days were notified by both text messages and phone calls on Thursday afternoon. Mt. Sinai made the following statement:
Due to sudden changes in the vaccine supply, we were forced to cancel our public vaccination appointments from Friday 15 January to Tuesday 19 January. We will notify our patients when more vaccine supplies are available and re-vaccinate eligible patients. For anyone with an appointment scheduled for Tuesday, we will provide updates as soon as we know more. “
Lois Wolff (76) was ‘terrified’ when she received the news around 17:30 on Thursday. She and her husband both have appointments at Mt. Sinai this Friday morning. “We were so relieved to get them,” Wolff said. “I can not tell you how nervous we have been all these months. And Mt. Sinai was very efficient! Yesterday, 24 hours to the minute, I received an sms from them confirming my appointment.
“I also got a call to cancel,” Wolff continued, “a living person. I said, ‘How could you do that?’ She said, ‘Well, we’m not there anymore. We will call if we have more. I said, ‘What happens if you get it? Should we go to the bottom of the list? “She said, ‘No, no, we’ll work it out.’
Mt. Sinai may not be the only hospital forced to cancel appointments. A source at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx said the hospital had canceled recent vaccinations for vaccination, but staff did not offer a reason for it, ‘writes Daily News. ” An official said there were no issues. ‘
WSR has also heard from reliable sources that similar problems occur at Northwell, NYU and New York Presbyterian Hospitals. We will keep you informed.