NY Officials Claim Vaccine Distribution Issues, CDC Says State Had Left Over Doses

By: Jared Evan

NY officials have claimed they are not receiving enough vaccines from the distributor; however according to CDC numbers published in Bloomberg, there were thousands of left-over vaccines from the first round.

After being forced to cancel 20K+ appointments over “logistical issues” that were blamed on McKesson, Moderna’s partner for distributing the vaccine, NYC has admitted that it will delay opening vaccination megasites like Yankee Stadium and Citi Field as shortages of vaccines leave the city shorthanded.

According to Bloomberg, the city will almost definitely fall short of its goal of doling out 1MM+ doses by the end of January. So far, the city has doled out 628.8K doses, compared with 21.8MM vaccine jabs doled out world-wide.

NY Post reported, New York City received another “paltry” 100,000 new doses of the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday — a fraction of what is needed, officials said.

Last Friday New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced his state had temporarily run out of the vaccine. But according to a chart on vaccine distribution published in Bloomberg, NY state has used just 61% of its nearly 2.4 million doses.

According to the Bloomberg chart, the country has administered 22.3 million doses out of 41.4 million delivered. Only ND and WV have used more than 80% of the doses delivered. Very few localities should have absolutely no doses left on the shelves, National Review reported.

Thus far the local media has not grilled Cuomo about, the data Bloomberg supplied. Thus far the local media has not grilled Cuomo about these numbers from Bloomberg which were compiled from CDC numbers

Some analysts on social media pointed out “means they have tossed out a HUGE amount of their vaccines in the trash. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of doses.”

The NY Post reported: New York City has used 74 percent of its supply of first doses to date, administering 532,132 of the 717,350 shots on hand, according to the city’s Web site. The city calculates its numbers slightly differently to the state — including doses allotted to, and administered in, the federally-run nursing home inoculation program.

As for second doses, it has administered just under 29 percent, or 86,740, of its supply of 301,950, the city said.

During a Monday press briefing, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city is equipped to vaccinate 500K people a week should it receive the increase in supply that it has been expecting.

“We’re not going to be able to soar until we get more supply,” de Blasio said.

“We should be vaccinating 400,000 a week,’’ said city Councilman Mark Levine (D-Manhattan), chairman of the council’s Health Committee.

“The new shipment is expected in the city Tuesday, but I don’t know if they have to wait for that shipment to be parceled out to locations, which might push [distribution] to Wednesday,’’ he told The Post on Sunday.