They warn that New York is running out of vaccines

New York City will run out of Covid-19 vaccines next week, unless the federal government and other parts of the supply chain change their approach to meet demand, Mayor Bill de Blasio warned today. last week he had warned of this chance.

“Since a month ago, when they gave us the vaccines, about 300,000 New Yorkers have been vaccinated and this number is increasing very quickly, but at the rate we are going there will be no doses left in New York City by the end of next week,” he said de Blasio.

Speaking to WNYC radio, the official complained that the city was “receiving resupply at this time at a very insignificant level, around 100,000 doses a week” and that therefore 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,” the mayor said.

Mount Sinai Hospital and NYU Langone Health are two of the medical centers in New York City that have already stopped attending appointments to vaccinate against the coronavirus, the Sputnik agency reported. And according to the Telemundo network, in the Empire State the wait is until mid-April.

Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna, the two manufacturers of coronavirus vaccines whose doses have so far been emergency licensed by global health agencies, admitted manufacturing problems after initially promising hundreds of millions of injections for this year.

The two companies have vaccines against Covid-19 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 Donald Trump administration, and each state capital is responsible for its distribution in the area.

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