The failure of laboratories to comply with the doses of vaccines agreed with the States complicated vaccination campaigns worldwide and NY was no exception, as he had to cancel his immunization campaign, reported the mayor himself Bill de Blasio.
“We are stuck, we cannot carry out vaccinations because we don’t have enough vaccines“, explained de Blasio, who also asked the federal authorities to use the reserve doses.
New York City has now vaccinated more people than the entire population of Portland, Oregon. We could be doing MUCH more.
We only have 7,710 first doses left. We need more supplies and we need the freedom to use the 72,409 second doses we have on hand and yet to be scheduled. pic.twitter.com/VrUGIUMjdI
– Major Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor)
January 26, 2021
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Those reserved doses are around 100,000 and he requested permission from the federal government now commanded by Joe Biden to use them, even knowing that Inoculation of the second dose may be delayed for those who have already received the first.
At a press conference, de Blasio reported that the city has only 7,700 doses, so appointments already agreed for vaccination were postponed and the start-up of the Yankee Stadium and Citi Field for a massive campaign was also suspended.
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“We are committed to everyone getting their second dose, but we are experiencing a shortage. We don’t live in a perfect world, we have total scarcity“, said.
Scenes like the one in New York are recorded almost everywhere in the world, where the demand per dose collides with the complications of the laboratories when it comes to mass production. Pfizer received complaints from central European countries for their non-compliance, which forced them to delay those campaigns.
Argentina itself had to postpone the flight to Moscow in search of 600,000 doses of Spassenger V since the Gamaleya Institute was experiencing problems with production.
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