New York State Team
New York had been on pace to spend about $1 billion on the historic effort to vaccinate its population against COVID-19, but slowing demand has led the state to pursue a shift in its strategy in recent weeks.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week urged local officials to shutter larger COVID-19 vaccination centers that have all but turned into ghost towns after months of churning out millions of doses to New Yorkers.
“We don t have enough people coming into vaccination centers to justify having the centers open right now,” Cuomo said during a media briefing Monday.
“We have centers open all day and two, three, four people show up,” he added.