NEW YORK CITY (WABC) Vaccine supply is stretching thin across several hospitals in New York City, causing some to cancel or stop scheduling new appointments.
Mount Sinai Hospital said it canceled public vaccination appointments from Friday, January 15, through Tuesday, January 19, due to supply shortages.
A spokesperson with Mount Sinai said the hospital will inform patients when more supplies become available and reopen vaccination appointments for eligible patients.
For those who have appointments scheduled after Tuesday, Mount Sinai said it will provide updates as it knows more.
NYU Langone is no longer scheduling new appointments due to their supply constraints.
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) Vaccine supply is stretching thin across several hospitals in New York City, causing some to cancel or stop scheduling new appointments.
Mount Sinai Hospital said it canceled public vaccination appointments from Friday, January 15, through Tuesday, January 19, due to supply shortages.
A spokesperson with Mount Sinai said the hospital will inform patients when more supplies become available and reopen vaccination appointments for eligible patients.
For those who have appointments scheduled after Tuesday, Mount Sinai said it will provide updates as it knows more.
NYU Langone is no longer scheduling new appointments due to their supply constraints.
This cluster is unrelated to the previous cluster of cases in Saratoga Springs confirmed last week.
In light of this, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has called for flight restrictions to prevent more cases of that contagious strain from arriving here from the UK and other places.
The Jones Beach mega-site opens Thursday morning with a news conference, but the Nassau County executive was not expected to attend.
Laura Curran is quarantining at home after possible exposure to COVID-19. She is reportedly feeling well.
So far a little more than 700,000 people have received the vaccine statewide.
She was admitted last month.
Pignataro had shortness of breath but thankfully she responded to treatment. So Tina is a remarkable patient with a remarkable story, said Dr. Srikant Polepalli of Staten Island Hospital. She s 100 years old, she was born in 1920 right at the end of the Spanish flu and now she s here living through the COVID-19 pandemic and she s very soft-spoken but is a very strong fighter.
Pignataro wasn t the only one discharged. Her younger sister Marie was also hospitalized for COVID in the same field hospital.
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) After a rollout that some officials admit was slow, the push is on to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19 in New York and vaccinated quickly.
People have started snapping up appointments at the vaccination sites that have opened over the past couple days, and on Wednesday, two more sites are being added to the mix: one in Westchester County and the other at the Javits Center in New York City.
The Javits, which functioned as a massive field hospital last spring when New York City was the epicenter of the pandemic, will now serve as a huge vaccine distribution center.