New York City said it would miss its goal of administering 1 million vaccine shots by the end of January, and Mayor Bill de Blasio appealed to the Biden administration for more doses.
The city has given out more than 650,00 doses so far and only had 7,710 doses on hand on Tuesday. New York expects 107,000 more first doses this week, far short of the city’s capacity to administer half a million doses per week. “We could be doing so much more,” de Blasio said in a Tuesday briefing. “I need hundreds of thousands of doses more, per week.”
De Blasio also said he wasn’t going to push Governor Andrew Cuomo to reopen indoor dining in the city. “We have way too many cases in the city; we have the variants that we’re watching closely,” de Blasio said. “The data and science tell us to be careful.”
New cases in New York continue to decrease, following a nationwide trend. The seven-day average of new cases in New York on Sunday dipped to 4,844, reverting to case levels seen before the holiday surge. The seven-day hospitalization rate of 5.14 per 100,000 residents remains stable.
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