New York City had received more than 42,900 doses of vaccine against him coronavirus from Pfizer pharmaceutical, of which 5,200 had already been provided to healthcare workers. With these figures, the Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to explain this Thursday, that although it seems that the immunization process is slow, on the contrary it is taking place without interruption, ensuring that in the next few days they will increase very quickly.
“The first days have been very cautious because everyone he has been very methodical and careful to do this very well, and we have been learning how to carry out this process which is unusual and which we have not had before. But now there will be a notable acceleration that will increase steadily, and that will allow us serve all New Yorkers”, Explained Mayor.
And you ask, when can you estimate that all New Yorkers who wish to be vaccinated?, De Blasio replied: “I think a healthy way to think about this is that it will be between now and June. We want to reach as many people as possible, but let’s face it, there are many New Yorkers who, no matter what we tell them, will not choose to get vaccinated, but I think that number will be small. “
He City Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi, confirmed that in the next few days there will be an acceleration in the immunization plan, “Especially because we will allow new medical appointments for vaccination, with hours in some health centers ranging from six in the morning to midnight, and all this will result in an additional number of health workers receiving the doses.
And when explaining why in the first two days of the vaccination plan there has been a feeling of slowness in the process, the President of the NYC Health + Hospitals Corporation, Dr. Mitchell Katz, explained that a key point “was to make sure we were as careful as possible not to waste any of the vaccine, Since it comes in an individual container that in turn has several doses, and that can only be out of the freezer for a very short period of time, and therefore especially at the beginning we had to be super careful. But today that we are already in the second day of the application, we are going to go much faster and do more, while the process becomes easier and easier ”.
Dr. Katz reiterated that the goal is that in next three weeks all the staff of the 11 public hospitals from Big Apple has been vaccinated.
They will fight misinformation
The Mayor reiterated that the City “has a large number of doses which will allow the process to be expanded quickly, but at the same time it is important that people know that this vaccine is safe and we are going to give them all the information they need ”.
With these words, the municipal leader addressed the recent reports that say that some people are registering serious side effects after receiving a dose. “There is a lot of misinformation out there and we have to fight against that, and the best way to do it is by explaining with good information and answering all the questions that are had about these vaccines so people know they are safe. “
He Dr. Chokshi emphasized in that Mayor’s message about how safe the vaccine is, and said that when talking about possible serious side effects that can occur, it was important to “watch the full movie, and remember that the pfizer vaccine proved in clinical trials and experimentation to be safe and effective, and was reviewed by top scientists from the FDA and the CDC, with Pfizer studies involving up to more than 44,000 people, and there were no signs of safety-related concern involving any of those people. It is possible that there may be an adverse reaction, including an allergic one, but that is very, very rare, like one in a million cases. “
The ‘top doctor’ of the City guaranteed that if something like this happens it would be in the observation period 15 to 30 minutes after injection, and it is at that time that they are taking extreme care. It was precisely between those minutes that the case was observed in Alaska. “In New York we have not heard of any adverse reaction of that type, and we continue to monitor in case something like this occurs.”
“We have a serious problem”
Now that we are in the middle of the vaccination plan, De Blasio insisted that it was essential that New Yorkers do not lower their guard and remember the situation we are experiencing, with a virus that continues to negatively affect the city, and in light of what he said directly : “We have a serious problem.”
“The infection rate continues to increase, hospitalizations continue to rise, and that is why we need this vaccine to fight this virus,” De Blasio said.
And as is customary every day, the Mayor presented the indicators of the coronavirus in New York City, starting with the new hospitalizations of suspected COVID-19 cases that were 174 on Wednesday, a metric whose cut-off figure was set 200 patients daily, while hospitalizations per 100,000 inhabitants had reached 3.06% and here the limit is not to exceed 2%, and in terms of new cases, these figures continue to “grow and grow”, as the president said, reaching 2,739, when here you want to not exceed 550, a goal that is far from being achieved. De Blasio concluded by stating that the positivity rate, which is being kept at no more than 5%, had risen to 6% on Wednesday, something that he classified as “not acceptable.”
The mayor taking the opportunity to list the strategies that must be followed in this final battle against COVID-19, if another total closure is to be avoided: wearing masks, practicing social distancing and avoiding traveling during the holidays.
Figures of COVID-19 in NY:
In the state:
- 120 dead in the last 24 hours.
- 28,222 total deaths.
- 10,914 new cases in the last 24 hours.
- 5.38% positivity rate.
- 6,147 people were hospitalized.
- 1,095 of these people were confined in the intensive care unit.
In NYC:
- 27 dead in the last 24 hours: 12 in Brooklyn, 9 in Queens, 3 in Manhattan and 3 in The Bronx
- 6% positivity rate.
- 2,739 new cases.
- 14 new hospitalizations of suspected cases.
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