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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.
arrow Members of the Strategic Response Group confronting a Black Trans Liberation march in November Scott Heins/Gothamist
On a Thursday night in November, two days after the presidential election, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered outside the Stonewall Inn for a march against police brutality. The event was one in a series of Black Trans Liberation marches, a recurring protest and pride parade held each week since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Unlike the previous iterations, which had proceeded without incident, this one was accompanied by scores of heavily armored officers with the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group.