Two teenagers have been charged with assault after allegedly attacking and stabbing a fellow student at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens last week.
Van Buren students and classes were briefly placed on lockdown shortly after the stabbing occurred, authorities said. The lockdown, however, was brief, and
NYC Vaccine Supply Drops Below 7,000 Doses Due To Weather Delays With Shipments • Updated: Feb. 19, 2021 5:39 p.m.
arrow Doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine stored in an ultra-cold freezer at NYC Health + Hospitals Metropolitan, February 18, 2021. Mary Altaffer/AP/Shutterstock
Most of the vaccine shipments scheduled to arrive in New York this week have been delayed due to winter storms sweeping across the country, and New York City’s supply is quickly running out.
“Every dose that should have shipped on Monday was held back, and only a limited number of Pfizer vaccines left shipping facilities on Tuesday and Wednesday,” Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a statement Thursday. As of Friday, only 40% of this week’s expected delivery had arrived, according to the state’s vaccine tracker. That’s just days after the state expanded eligibility to millions of people with pre-existing conditions.