Mayor Bill de Blasio says New York City could run out of
coronavirus vaccines by Thursday if they are not given extra doses.
As of Tuesday, during his press briefing, de Blasio said the
city had around 92,000 doses left for the week.
He says if the federal government does not act then they will
have to start canceling vaccine appointments.
A 24/7 vaccine hub in Sunset Park has already been closed
since Friday because the site doesn’t have any more doses.
De Blasio says that 220,000 doses were administered last week
with around 500,000 delivered overall.
The mayor says the city is ready to give out more doses if
they are available.
“The good news is we have the ability to do this faster and
faster,” de Blasio says. “If we have the vaccine we needed, we could vaccinate
300,000 people this week.”
He says he hopes that President-elect Joe Biden will be true
to his word in delivering 100 million doses of the vaccine in his first 100
days in office.
De Blasio says if the city is resupplied with vaccines, then
three more mega vaccine sites are set to open.
The locations will be at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, Citi
Field in Queens and Empire Outlets in Staten Island.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has also created a vaccine dashboard
detailing the distribution of the vaccine throughout the state.