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Hundreds of New Yorkers descended on a vaccination site after a Facebook post said there were over 400 spare shots Andrea Michelson A pharmacist fills a syringe to prepare a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for front-line health care workers at a vaccination site at Torrance Memorial Medical Centre on December 19, 2020 in Torrance, California. A Facebook post said there were more than 400 extra vaccine doses available in New York City for walk-in appointments that needed to be used before 7pm. Swarms of New Yorkers lined up at Brooklyn Grand Army Terminal seeking the vaccine, but officials said there was not enough for people without appointments.
Vaccine frenzy in New York: Hundreds line up and traffic is jammed for eight blocks after false rumors spread on social media about spare doses being given away as state s rollout is branded a completes mess
Reports on social media said 400+ doses were available to anyone aged 18+ at the Brooklyn Army Terminal
Claims sent New Yorkers into a frenzy Thursday night with around 500 flocking to the site
New York City officials tweeted that this was misinformation and sent cops to disperse the crowds
Less than 4% of the state s population have so far been vaccinated, according to data from Bloomberg
Governor Cuomo and NYC Mayor de Blasio have pushed the blame onto the federal government
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Connected devices will change the economics of collecting and acting upon data.
The data contains enormous potential.
Smart cities will improve quality of life while reducing costs.
Still, given this perspective, we must ask, if all this is so evident, why isn’t
smart city adoption happening quicker? What is holding the floodgates back?
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Smart lighting reduce city electricity and maintenance costs.
Other solutions help cities track costly assets, improve transportation services, manage waste services, and create more resilient electricity and water distribution networks. Potential abounds.