The city of NY will run out of vaccines against Covid-19 next week, unless the federal government and other parts of the supply chain change their approach to meet demand, the mayor warned on Friday Bill de Blasio, which already last week had warned of this chance.
“About 300,000 New Yorkers have been vaccinated in the last month when we were given vaccines, and this number is increasing very rapidly., but at the rate we are going there will be no dose left in the city of NY by the end of next week “de Blasio pointed out.
In statements to the radio WNYC, the official complained that the city was “receiving refueling right now at a very insignificant level, around 100,000 doses a week” and that is why there is a risk of shortages.
“We will run out of vaccines next week in New York City if there is not a very different approach from the federal government, the state capital Albany and the vaccine manufacturers “said the mayor.
Mount Sinai Hospital and NYU Langone Health are two of the medical centers in the city of NY who have already stopped attending appointments to vaccinate against the coronavirus, the agency reported Sputnik. And according to the network TelemundoAt the Empire State, the wait is until mid-April.
The lack of dose, the main problem
Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna, the two manufacturers of coronavirus vaccines whose doses have been authorized for emergency until now by global health agencies, admitted manufacturing problems after initially promising hundreds of millions of injections for this year.
The two companies have covid-19 vaccines that need very low temperatures to ensure storage and require at least two doses per person to be effective.
Johnson & Johnson, meanwhile, which developed a single-dose vaccine that does not require extreme cold conditions, says it is working to reach the market with about 10 million doses by the second half of February.
Until now, the logistics for the supply of vaccines was coordinated by the Operation Warp Speed program of the administration of Donald Trump, and each state capital is responsible for its distribution in the area.
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