NEW YORK: A shortage of vaccines went up on the front lines of the U.S. battle against the pandemic of coronavirus on Friday (January 15), prompting at least one major health care system to prevent the eradication of people who hope to be circulated.
The supply chain hits rose as the country struggled to accelerate the pace of vaccination, which totaled 12.3 million, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In New York, the most inhabited city in the country, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city has vaccinated about 300,000 of more than 8 million residents, but planned to run dry the next week as it burned through vaccines faster than they replenished.
“We’ve been getting a relapse right now at a very paltry rate of about 100,000 doses a week,” de Blasio told WNYC radio. “We went through 125,000 in the first four days of this week, and our numbers are going up every day.”
De Blasio has said the city would be on track to vaccinate its 1 million New Yorkers target by the end of January if they can afford it.
“If there is no supply, we have to freeze the meeting system,” he said.
“That would be crazy after all the progress has been made.”
De Blasio, who said vaccination provision should be given to areas commensurate with their administrative capacity, was among three dozen mayors who called for the incoming Biden administration. COVID-19 vaccine addresses sent directly to them, circumventing state governments.
At least one New York City health care system interrupted vaccination meetings and another suspended new ones. A spokesman for Mount Sinai Hospital said “sudden changes in vaccine provision” had forced him to postpone the case through next Tuesday.
While NYU Langone Health did not cancel meetings, they said it would not accept new ones, “unless we have a confirmed dose in hand or know we will get it ahead of time,” someone said. -talk by Kate Malenczak.
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SOLAR GAPS
Since the outbreak began, the virus has infected 23.1 million Americans, about 7per percent of the population, killing 388,467 of them, according to a Reuters account.
The rate of new cases has gone up since December to 235,766 per day on an average of seven days, with an average of 3,332 people dying each day in what one model projects as the deadliest month in the country.
In one encouraging sign, the number of COVID-19 patients sick enough to be hospitalized has declined in the past two weeks, with 128,612 reported Thursday.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo blamed the supply gaps on the federal government, which he said had cut supplies this week to 250,000 doses from 300,000, expanding its eligibility to 7 million of 19 million residents of the state to be included.
“They increased eligibility, they did not increase supply,” Cuomo said at a briefing.
Cuomo was controversial over Blasio’s prediction that the city would run out of doses, but acknowledged that the city would keep cutting in line with the state’s overall cut-off. According to the CDC, however, the state of New York has received only about 757,000 doses of the 1.9 million it received administration.
In Oregon, Governor Kate Brown said she was told by a federal official that the state would not receive an extra vaccine supply because the federal government has nothing.
“I want answers from the Trump administration,” Brown said on Twitter. “I’m shocked and horrified that they’ve come up with an idea they couldn’t deliver, with such a huge impact.”
Brown’s comments came after a report in the Washington Post that the federal government has no reserve of the two approved vaccines, one by Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech and the second by Moderna Inc, which has an emergency use license.
Citing unidentified officials, the Post said the reserve, which the government said had been set aside for the second dose required of all vaccines, had already been disbanded starting at the end of the year. December.
Earlier this week, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said the federal government would begin distributing the reserve to states, a situation taken over by the Biden administration, which takes over Jan. 20. .
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