The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, assured this Wednesday that The state is expected to receive the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine this weekend, while waiting for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to grant authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Thursday.
“We expect the delivery of 170,000 doses as soon as this weekend“said Cuomo. At the same time, he advanced that the “priority will be residents and staff of nursing homes and high-risk hospital workers“.
Along the same lines, he added that once the campaign is launched, which could be at the beginning of February, “the communities of black and Latino” will have priority, since they are in a greater situation of vulnerability since their mortality rates were up to twice as high as in white neighborhoods.
“Vaccine equity is paramount“said Cuomo. Vaccination is key to stopping rising infection rates, slowing the rise in hospitalizations and helping rebuild New York City’s ailing economy.
The FDA announced last tuesday that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine “is safe and effective”, which raised expectations that the regulator will grant emergency approval.
To date, and since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, More than 35,000 people died from the disease in New York State, mainly in the city of the same name, which became the epicenter of the second outbreak in the United States.
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