Current Events > NYC with thousands of unused vaccines thanks to everyone's favorite governor

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/nyc-s-de-blasio-blames-state-for-thousands-of-unused-vaccines?sref=uYHHCFbx

New York City is looking into legal options to challenge state vaccination rules that have left thousands of Covid-19 doses unused.

Health officials have thousands of shots available without arms to give injections to, Mitchell Katz, chief executive officer of NYC Health and Hospitals, said in a Thursday briefing.

Now that every eligible worker in the citys 11 public hospitals who wants to be vaccinated has received a shot, Mayor Bill de Blasio is pushing Governor Andrew Cuomo to give the city the freedom to expand eligibility for police, firefighters, correction officers and people over 75 to get inoculated. So far, Governor Cuomo has resisted.

New York Citys public hospital system, the largest in the U.S., has almost no one left to vaccinate within its employee base, de Blasio said in the briefing. We could be reaching folks this minute who are vulnerable. Ill speak to our law department further, because I think whats happening here makes no sense.

The initial batch of vaccines is reserved for health-care workers. Until all those people are vaccinated, Cuomo has said he doesnt want to provide vaccines to other vulnerable groups. Thats left the city with thousands of vaccinations in storage.

Cuomos office did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.

Around 30% of health-care workers in New York City have resisted getting vaccinated, either because they distrust the shot or believe they have become immune through prior infection, said Katz. All of a sudden, we have appointments available.

Some surplus doses are being distributed to health workers outside the citys system, to private hospitals, dentists, home health aides and optometrists, Katz said. Even with that effort, thousands more doses remain unused, which could be given to patients in public hospitals over 75, who statistically are most at risk of severe illness and death if infected, he said.

The issue has become yet another point of division between the mayor and the governor. The feud flared up this week after New York City tried to offer the shots to firefighters and other first responders. Police, firefighters, and correction officers are included in the next tier of eligibility, so the state instructed the city to stand down.

The city had a plan to vaccinate 10,000 police and fire personnel by Sunday and the state said you cant do that, de Blasio said. I have a huge number of folks over 75 who are ready right now, correctional officers, firefighters, but the state wont allow it.

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Wonder what chapter this will be in his sequel corona book.

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I'm glad he got to pat himself on the back for beating covid back in april

It's like Cuomo's goal is to eliminate the elderly in the state. First forcing retirement homes to take covid patients at the beginning of all of this, and now refusing to release more vaccinations to the city to be used on the elderly.

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I'm sure this will look great for him when he runs for president in 10 years.

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Around 30% of health-care workers in New York City have resisted getting vaccinated, either because they distrust the shot or believe they have become immune through prior infection, said Katz. All of a sudden, we have appointments available.

Hmmm

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I dont understand why liberals had been applauding his (terrible) handling of the pandemic in his state. Maybe theyll overlook this too and hell get another Emmy this year.

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iPhone_7 posted...

I dont understand why liberals had been applauding his (terrible) handling of the pandemic in his state. Maybe theyll overlook this too and hell get another Emmy this year.

He talked a good game and he said the right things, then his actions fell well short and the toad he has always been has been revealed. It sucks too since I have so many people in my life who need this vaccine.

iPhone_7 posted...

I dont understand why liberals had been applauding his (terrible) handling of the pandemic in his state. Maybe theyll overlook this too and hell get another Emmy this year.

At that point literally anything short of outright denial looked genius compared to what the White House was doing.

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iPhone_7 posted...

I dont understand why liberals had been applauding his (terrible) handling of the pandemic in his state. Maybe theyll overlook this too and hell get another Emmy this year.

desperate projection from the gen xers who idealize neoliberal nyc politics due to Seinfeld and Friends

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Fuck Cuomo

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Just give the vaccine to anyone who wants it, enough of this tiered bullshit.

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Remember when you said this would happen?

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EvilutionV316 posted...

Just give the vaccine to anyone who wants it, enough of this tiered bullshit.

this. or just work on the next priority group. there's always options cant leave it to waste.
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I get why they can't just give it to anyone who wants it right now because there are people more at risk. The issue here is it's clear he didn't have much of a plan, if you are done with one tier then move on to the next highest priority. Everyone in the first tier had their chance, just sitting by and doing nothing is the last thing that should be happening.

hockeybub89 posted...

Fuck Cuomo

iPhone_7 posted...

I dont understand why liberals had been applauding his (terrible) handling of the pandemic in his state. Maybe theyll overlook this too and hell get another Emmy this year.

He was one of the first US politicians to legit act like he cared about the pandemic, I'll give him that much

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

He was one of the first US politicians to legit act like he cared about the pandemic, I'll give him that much

He wasn't acting much differently from other Democratic governors at the time; he was just constantly on TV because NY had the most deaths.

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