He will speak with reporters about the Coronavirus Response in his city. Mayor de blasio we are so ready to kick 2020 out the door. And i am feeling totally energized that the new year is going to be here and great things are going to happen. Tonight is going to be very special. Do not believe any doubting it will that say that not be special, it will be arguably the most special, the most poignant and moving new years eve. Everybody watch on television, do not go there. Watch from home. It will be powerful. We will be honoring our Health Care Heroes and First Responders my folks who did amazing work this year. Folks from the curb iris movement. All out there, deserving of the festivities. They will be the people we truly have in our hearts, because they saws through this year. Think about the performers, too. New york citys own jennifer bronx, ande for the great moment to have her highlighted as we ring in the new year. And Gloria Gaynor will be singing i will survive. I cannot think of a more appropriate song for this occasion. Veryl tell you, it will be powerful, very special. Everybody tune in. I guarantee you that we will push the button on time. We will be tempted to push it early, in fact, but we will get there for sure. 2021 is around the corner. We will do great things in 2021. I want to start with the most important new years resolution i could possibly offer you. In the month of january, we will vaccinate one million new yorkers. One Million People we will reach in january. This city can do it. The Amazing Health care professionals of this city already. We are going to set up new sites all over the city, on top of the many that are already operational. We will expand from her and set up alllocations over the city. Our goal is to get upwards of 250 locations citywide. This will be a massive effort. This will be part of the largest single vaccination effort in the history of new york city. Its going to take a lot of work. It will take urgency and focus. And we will need help from the federal government, we will need help from the State Government and from the vaccine manufacturers. But we are making clear to the world, we can achieve one million vaccinations in january. We will make it happen. We have the ability to make it happen on the ground and we are anxious to get it done. President elect joe biden said it right, this whole country is behind the pace where we need to be. We need to go faster to beat back the virus and restart our economy, to protect our lives and recover. We have got to go faster and new york city will lead the way. We have the will, the capacity and the knowhow. This is a chance for new york city to shine and help achieve the president elects gold. It is so clear that there is no reason, no reason for anything but urgency at this point. And that every Single Person we reach takes is one step closer to recovery. Now, we are doing better than most of the country, that is the good news, but we are nowhere near where we need to be. 80,000 have been vaccinated so far. That is great, but we need to go into overdrive now. We need every day to speed up and reach more and more people, and we are committed to doing that. So, we know that we have the ability. We are going to do this with a really centralized grassroots effort. We will go all over the city and we will create new hubs of activity. Number one, new hubs will be created on top of the locations we have. Willtest and a trace sites be locations for vaccinations as well. Test and a trace has been very successful, reaching into every corner of the city and protecting people. We will take that capacity to use us use to achieve more vaccinations. Three, we will scale up the capacity of local organizations that can do this work. We have so many partners on the ground that can be part of this and have the ability to motivate people and move people. They will be part of this in a big way. All of this will be coordinated by arc vaccine our vaccine command center. We can get it done. We need the federal government to be committed and help us achieve our goal. We need the State Government to work with us to keep us moving. Wee need the manufacturers to keep providing the doses. But, that can be done. All those things can be done. We will make Something Special happen here together. What we will not allow to happen in new york city is for people to jump the line and use their wealth or privilege to get vaccines they should not be getting. We are already seeing this around the country, the congressional staffers jumping the line, even if they are not in a category that is a priority. We are seeing executives jumping the line. We want people who need the vaccine the most to get it first. And we are going to stick to those priorities and we will be aggressive on it. Right now, the focus is the Health Care Workers, our heroes who need to be safe Going Forward. We are focusing on nursing home staff and residents. We will keep building out from there, faster and faster, but we will make sure that the distribution is based on fairness as we get into communities, and that we focus on those hardest hit. Those who have had the most deaths, the most cases and of the most need. We can do it. All of us together. And the person who will help us to lead the way with the and cripple effort of his team, the health department, and they have a lot of Great Success historically in vaccinations, we are proud to introduce on this auspicious day our health commissioner, dr. Dave chokshi. Dr. Chokshi thank you. Beating a virus is a team sport and we need every position on the field to come together. I saw that yesterday when i visited a nursing home in my neighborhood in queens. Residents and a staff were getting vaccinated. One resident said she could not wait to get her shot, but she asked her regular nurse to stay by her side while she was getting it, for moral support. These are the small and large ways our Health Care Heroes have quite literally moved the needle for the past couple weeks, resulting in over 88,000 vaccinations to date. But we will need to accelerate our efforts to turn vaccines into vaccinations. One key to doing this, as the mayor mentioned, is expanding points of access across our entire city. Our goal is to double the access point for vaccination within a month, two Emergency Health centers to emergency clinics, titling totaling 200 sites. Part of our strategy includes launching the first vaccine hub in the coming weeks. These are city operated vaccination clinics set up rapidly as points in school gymnasium. There are plans to expand over time if we get adequate supply of vaccine. Are picking the sites to help ensure access for our priority neighborhoods. Most often hit by this vicious virus, communities of color. In addition, the city has built a testing apparatus. There is a focus on hardest hit communities. Given the organizations have been activated by those who will vaccinate onsite in communities, providing capacities for several tens of thousands of vaccinations per week by the end of january. This is the kind of thing we do every year during flu season, with events in churches and community centers. This would be like our flu campaign in overdrive. Growing capacity through these initiatives along with our existing hospitals, clinics, and pharmacy infrastructure gives us the ability to administer over one million doses by the end of january. I do want to specify that these and thisssive folks campaign is a team sport. We will need blocking and tackling to run at the pace that we want from a number of partners, but particularly our colleagues and states and federal government, swiftly vaccinationtes for for hospital workers, Nursing Homes, First Responders, and of course our seniors. And we need sufficient supply of clear ideach has a fromat we want to receive the federal government for the weeks and months ahead. If these elements come together, we can move fast and travel far. Finally, we need new yorkers themselves to get vaccinated. We will help you by making sure your vaccine questions get answered, endeavoring to dispel with accesson points to make it more convenient for you. Mr. Mayor, it is a particular honor for me to be able to join you this last day of 2020. I wanted to conclude with some brief, tailored messages. To my fellow Health Care Workers, thank you so much for all you have done during this really tough year. But if you have gotten your vaccine, i have one more task for you. Be sure to tell the story of why you got vaccinated, and reach out to people who may still have unanswered questions. Covid. Gov has the resources you need. Covid19 is not taking the weekend off. Scheduley urge you to vaccination clinics over the weekend. I remainw yorkers, quite concerned by the increase in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. It is not too late to cancel your new years eve gathering plans and stay safe by saying home staying home. And i am looking forward to a better year ahead. Mayor de blasio what a day. I want to say to our commissioner, dave johnson, thank you for your extraordinary work, for your teams amazing work. Some colleagues here as part of s press Conference Today the Senior Advisor and ceo of health the hospitals you have all been heroes. You are very modest people, so maybe i am making you blush. The fact is, all of you have been heroes in 2020. All of you have been part of the history of this city and you will be in the history books as people who have made Tremendous Positive difference for the people in new york city. I am thanking you as individuals, but also thanking you for the amazing teams you have assembled and the amazing work you have all done. This isut team going to be a team effort to reach one million vaccinations in january. We are going to work with the whole community. We are going to work with the whole health care world. We are going to call all city agencies to be part of this, as dave mentioned. The School Committees and the department of education has to be part of this. Think about Public Housing, our community centers. We are going to be out there in developments where the months ahead. They will be a crucial piece of this as well. We are going to focus intensely on the communities in need, communities that bore the brunt. Our Public Housing certainly bore the brunt of this crisis. You are going to see this grow. More and more grassroots. More and more people getting involved. Leaders, agencies, parts of the community you name it. This is going to be an extraordinary effort. A special thank you to the state of new york which has been working really closely with our state partners over the last weeks, determining how to do something that has never been done before. This is a brandnew vaccine, a brandnew type of vaccine. Have had to be smart and careful about getting it implement it. We are working together to figure out how to do this as quickly as humanly possible. Thank you to everyone and State Government who worked so hard this year. I appreciate all of the work we have done together. To, together, find a way to push harder. We are going to push the federal government to do its share in the manufacturers to do its share, so we can really go into overdrive. Of good news ahead. 2021 is going to be a good news here. 2020 is going to go down in history as one of our saddest, toughest years, one of the toughest in new york city. Through it, came those of us who made it. We have to remember those we lost. And we have got to be there with their families every day, all the families who lost loved ones. You are in our thoughts and prayers all the time. We know this has been incredibly difficult. Without the case to mourn in many cases, without the chance to be with loved ones. It is important that we have a day of remembrance. It is important that we have a day Going Forward in the future of the city. Inays remember what happened 2020, remember those we lost. Honor them. Honor their families. At the same time, remember all the heroism, all the people who did so much good. The day we lost our first new waser to covid in this year march 14, 2020. Next march 14, 2021, will be a day of remembrance in new york city. We need to recognize 25,000 of our fellow new yorkers gone. That is something we have to always mark, Going Forward. And weve got to remember them by being there for their families, by honoring those who did so much to try to save them, and by working to make this city in theirr all the time memory. So many we lost were victims of the disparities and inequality in our society. This was not the shocking. Tatement so many did not get their fair share no matter how hard they worked. There is still too much discrimination in our society. We lost people of every background, of every income level, every neighborhood. This was a disease that affected everyone, but it did not affect everyone recent everyone equally. We will 14 this year, rededicate ourselves to making a difference and changing things. It will also be a day to look forward and say, how do we do better . So we never lose people again and we have a city that is better for everyone Going Forward . Before i move forward to what we do every single day, which is our daily indicators, i want to take a moment, since it is a very special time of year we have many faith traditions, christmas, hanukkah, so many important holidays people celebrate, so many times when people restore faith and hope. We are looking forward to tonight, tomorrow. We are still in kwanzaa and it is important to talk about the kwanzaa principles. This is something we are really highlighting this year. We are going to do it in a big way next year. These principles say so much to us, so much positive, so much helpful that really moves us forward and helps us think about where we need to go. Each day at the beginning of the , we ask, what is the news . Ba, and that means creativity. I want to celebrate the creativity of new yorkers, the resourcefulness, the ingenuity of new yorkers in the year 2020. Unbelievable. The things people did this year to help each other. Talk about making a way when there is no way. In the year 2020, new yorkers had to create like never before. Whether you are talking about whatever healthcare workers had to do to protect people and savor Hospital System, and the First Responders, what they have to do, the incredible challenges they overcame you are talking about the way the city ended up creating its own ppe, its own processing labs for tests things we did not have before, we created them all here. And we did it in record time. That is what new york city is all about. And just the way people help each other. They express their own personalities, their own hope, their own belief, whether it was designed a face masks or the way people celebrated and supported each other, cultural activities put together to support people, give them hope. This was a year for creativity if ever there was one. So a lot to be proud of, the creativity of our people. We see it blossom in 2021. Now we are going to go to our indicators. Im going to put a bit of a qualifier on that. We have seen some pretty aberrant numbers the last two days. We obviously have the situation of a lot of people getting tested in advance of the holidays, and then during the holidays, test numbers were uneven, so you get a different kind of sample. Even though these numbers look somewhat skewed, it is important to focus on them. First, number one, the number of people admitted to new york City Hospitals 199 patients. The goal is 200. We want to drive that down. The hospital rates per thousand, still too high. We want to get that back under two. The number of new cases for covid19, seven day average way too high again. The goal is 550. Percentage ofand new york City Residents testing positive a very high number today. That is probably aberrant based on uneven testing with the holidays. Still cautionary and troublesome, and some thing we need to focus on, need to act on. We want to get that number below 5 and drive it down. Dr. Just heard the peoples tell you, if you are thinking about going to some kind of large Holiday Gathering tonight, just dont do it. I will borrow from nike and modify the phrase, just dont do it. It doesnt make sense. Next year, you will be able to celebrate all you want. Of doingt sick because the wrong thing, it is not going to speed our days of recovery. Please avoid large gatherings tonight. Keep it small. Keep it simple. Stay home. Stay close. Be healthy. Lets help each other. Spanish] annothat, and feliz nuevo, while im at it we are joined by the deputy mayor, by dr. Katz the first question goes to Hazel Sanchez from wcbs. Good morning, mr. Mayor. Happy new year to you. Host happy new year, hazel. How do you feel . Reporter i am good. You have probably seen the video of a group of bicyclists attacking a man and his mother inside his suv. The driver is a lifelong new york city resident, and he says he feels he deserves answers from the city as to what allowed this to happen. What is the city going to do to make sure it does not happen again . Isor de blasio hazel, it unacceptable. You have teenagers doing something that is just wrong. At least one has been arrested. The others will be. Look, weve got to teach our young people that are all the time. It is incumbent upon all of us. We also have to have consequences. It will be consequences. Go ahead, hazel. Hazel going back to vaccinations, you are launching an Aggressive Campaign in january. What about in december when you know the vaccine will be arriving . Mayor de blasio we said in the beginning we were going to get this right. Our doctors have spoken about this many times. Have are realities we never experienced before, including the need for ultracold refrigeration, very tight standards about how it could be utilized. We need the federal government to really be committed to speeding this process. Looking at all these standards, we want everyone to be safe, but we have to have a focus on speed and urgency. The first weeks were about getting it right, making sure everything was safe and proper. We knew we wanted to go a hell of a lot faster. Comfortable. The first weeks we were really testing to make sure everything worked right. Have seen the results. People have been getting these vaccinations safely, effectively. We have had very, very few side effects. We have had a very successful experience. To take off. Me now, it is time to race. The next is matt from newsday. Matt happy new year early. Mayor de blasio happy new year. How are you feeling . Matt i am ok. How about yourself . Mayor de blasio i am ecstatic. Ive been dreaming of this day. Matt under your nyc vaccine for all campaign, will units be available to someone in those 37 on aborhoods that is faster timeline or in any different way whatsoever, yes or no . Mayor de blasio first, let me frame it. We are going to follow of course the guidelines that originate with the federal government, then are codified by the state. We are going to work with the state to keep expanding those guidelines constantly. So to get the point where we are talking about everyday people, senior citizens, folks with preexisting conditions that has to happen within the state guidelines. We will work to speed that along because we want to be able to always jump ahead to the next group of people when we find there is more vaccine available. When we have gone through one group, we want to immediately move on. We need state guidance to do that. Are going line is, we to make sure priority neighborhoods get the vaccine. They have to be the first wave because they are where the most people suffered the most cases, the most deaths. I definition, that is where you need to protect people the most. What had. Matt want to say on this 1 you say they have to be the first wave. Will they be the first wave in new york city . Mayor de blasio we have been saying this for weeks and weeks let me flip the equation. Where else would you go but where the need is greatest . Of course when it comes to going out to the grassroots, we are going to go to the places that suffered the most and are still the most vulnerable. Absolutely. Reporter good morning, mr. Mayor, and happy new year. Mayor de blasio happy new year. How are you doing today . Reporter i am good. How are you . Mayor de blasio could not be better. Reporter on a personal note, i know you said the new years resolution was going to be to get those million vaccines. Do youa personal note, have any resolutions . Can tellblasio all i you is i want to make 2021 an amazing year in new york city. I have so much energy right now. Im going to burn my way to the finish line this year. On december 31, 2021, we are going to look back and say we did Amazing Things in new york city. We turned the tide. We started the recovery. We reached people and protected people in ways never seen before. That is my resolution. I feel very confident we can do that. A million is a big goal. I want to be clear about this. This is not something we did lightly. Say it out loud. Our goal is to vaccinate one million new yorkers in the month of january, 2020 one. That is a tough goal. It is a difficult goal. It is a necessary goal. All we are saying to everyone out there we rely on is join us, and we can do it. We are going to drive and drive and drive and get this done. Reporter i know you spoke about this on cnn already, have you got the chance to see the new videos the nypd put out about the incident at the hotel . And can you talk more about what you think should happen to this woman . Happenedblasio this i have not seen the new video. I will tell you the bottom line on this. Things seen a series of like this around the country. It almost has become tragically comical how much you can rely on the fact that someone will unjustly accuse a young man of color in america. I mean, it is just crazy. It is very personal for me. I have a son of color who is about as good a human being as you can possibly imagine, and yet i know he will be looked down on and disrespected throughout his life. It is not fair. It is not right. It has to end. It is destructive. I had this experience as a father. What do you do as a parent . Hope,y to give your child keep them safe, a sense of selfesteem and belonging. If you are a young black man or any young men of color in america and you are looked down on and treated like there is something wrong with you, how are you going to succeed . How are you going to believe in yourself . How are you going to believe your society is going to be fair to you . This is why we have a broken approach to stop and frisk that was used years ago. It was denigrating the young people of color. Young women as well, but certainly young man. It was taking away their selfesteem. Cityo you build a better and a better country if you are robbing the majority of people of their selfesteem . This has to end and the way for it to end is for everyone to somebodyt, and when does Something Like this, they have to suffer consequences. There needs to be real action by the criminal Justice System to make sure there are consequences of the case. Next is erin from politico. Reporter good morning, mr. Mayor. Early happy new year. Mayor de blasio happy new year. Reporter it is a relief to have this year over with soon. Can you tell us more about how the logistics will work in terms of the Vaccination Campaign . For instance, if we are doing expectlion shots, do you it to be anyone over 65 or any essential worker . Where will that get us up to in the line . Is this going to be by appointment . Kind of where are the numbers going to come from with you said 45,000 a week. It does not add up to a million. Mayor de blasio hold on. Youve got a lot going on there. We try to pull out the core of what you are saying. , our vaccine say command center will be constantly providing updates, and how each center will relate to the overall number, the different categories suffice it to say you will hear more and more about that, each day to come. I will turn to dr. Chaffee, that i do not expect him to have the perfect chart of how all will be done in january yet. I also wanted to say at the effort,t is a voluntary meaning you will decide how many people in each category it will depend on how many People Volunteer in each category. The more come forward, the faster it goes in those groups. If you were people come forward, we move on to other groups. We always want the ability to keep moving to the next group. It is voluntary. See hopeful that as people how successful this is, a safe it is, how effective it is, more and more people will want it. We want the ability to jump ahead constantly to the next group. I cant tell you exactly which groups we are going to cover. I can tell you the First Priority remains. The folks who are most vulnerable, particularly in settings like Nursing Homes we need to stay safe. As we work to those categories, we start out into the General Community for the folks who are more vulnerable. Sir, you said all of the high points. Im going to pull out a couple to elaborate on. Is calledare in what phase one a right now. Mentioned, this is primarily healthcare workers as well as nursing home staff and othernts, and those in longterm care facilities. The estimate from new york city is we have a Million People just in those categories. Putting the one million for january is to be able to say we want everyone in that category who is eligible to get vaccinated to actually have the ability to get vaccinated. That, we do have to expand out the eligibility from where it is currently, which focuses on hospital workers as well as nursing home staff and residents. We want to get to other communitybased Health Care Workers, including Home Health Care workers, and do that as rapidly as possible. That is the other viewpoint the mayor has emphasized. For us to move quickly, as is our intent, we have to be able to expand the circle of eligibility swiftly as well, so that we can match the capacity we have with that eligibility. Mayor de blasio i want to also turn to the deputy mayor, who has done outstanding work organizing the command center, the vaccine command center. Because one of the crucial is to constantly move on with what is going on at the grassroots level. We have to constantly make moves to reach deeper into each population and then move on to the next. Deputy mayor, why dont you jump him . Good morning. Sir, can you hear me . Mayor de blasio yes. I just wanted to answer the question a little bit more in detail. We have attesting capacity per week for about 150,000 doses. That is to the Hospital System largely. But we are going to be doing during january is doubling that to 300,000 bying the end of january. That includes three major components our Community Vaccination partners, partners who we contract with. The mayor talks about in our hardest hit communities. We could get that capacity to 100,000 per week. We have our own community hub, 40,000 per week to bring on board. Our test and trace core is going to bring another 4000. That is how we get doubling of capacity. Reporter thank you. 298eard today about the City Employees who have died from the coronavirus, disproportionately black and latino. There have been a number of complaints that folks did not feel they were well protected enough. Obviously, some of that goes back to the spring. Just wondering if there is anything more the state can be doing, especially with the second wave underway, to protect its own frontline workers. Mayor de blasio we are absolutely adamant about protecting our folks. Look, we lost so many people. That is why the state of remembrance is so necessary. But m what happened. But lets remember what happened. Alone in new york city. We pleaded for testing. We did not know throughout february that the disease was already spreading widely in the city. We did not have attesting capacity. We did not have ppe from the federal government. We were on our own. We did our damnedest to reach people and protect people. Clearlygoing to show you cannot deal with an International Pandemic on a local level. You need support from the national government. There,t support been those folks would still be there today. The minute we were able to get the information, the testing we needed, get the ppe supply, we made sure folks got what they needed, and we continue to build that. Of ppehy we have a lot in stock at all times. Its why we are constantly working to protect people, especially by getting them vaccinated. That gets us to the urgency of this moment. You need to protect everyone. We need to vaccinate as many of our frontline Public Workers as possible, as quickly as possible. So they are safe and their families are safe. The next is stacy from fox five. Reporter good morning, mr. Mayor, and happy new year. Mayor de blasio how you doing . I am well, thank you. Knowing the city has 7 million , acinated in the next month lot of healthcare workers private Health Care Workers, even the nypd here in new york, the vaccine is being delayed for these groups. Seeing pediatricians in new jersey or connecticut getting the vaccine. There is not an update on when they can get it. Workers and the nursing home staff and residents being able to get it what about other Health Care Workers . Mayor de blasio we are ready. We want to get this done immediately. I want to see all Health Care Workers reached. I want to see all appropriate First Responders reached. There is no question the more people we reach, the faster, the better. It is plain and simple. We need that cooperation all around to smooth this out and make it simple. We have amazing capacity in this city. The ability of new york city in general, our health care in particular, showed us in 2020 they could do Amazing Things in the city. We have the tools. We need the right authorizations and the supply of vaccine, and we can make it work. Everything we are talking about could be resolved in the month of january. We have this rigorous goal. Within that goal, we have the ability to reach a huge number of healthcare workers and First Responders. That is what i want to see happen. Go ahead. Reporter when you say the support we need, are you referring to the supply of the vaccine. Will thewith the doctors be included in the one million in january . Im going to answer by starting with the fact that i am a primary care doctor myself. That people who have been practicing in the community, whether it is a pediatrician or a dermatologist, people have been taking care of patients over the last few months. In doing so with the risk of exposure in delivering that care. I certainly understand the need for that prioritization. Didstate earlier this week issue guidance saying that those communitybased health care ,orkers, independent providers are eligible for vaccination starting next week. Ensure thatred to those workers will have access to the vaccines, beginning next week as well. That will ramp up to the other categories as they get approved by new york state. I mentioned for example Home Health Care workers. Careest of the health workforce, which totaled well over half a Million People across new york city we want those categories to be expanded as quickly as possible, so that we can match up our capacity and get them vaccinated as quickly as possible. Mayor de blasio thank you very much. Next is the washington journal. Reporter good morning. Happy new year, mayor de blasio. I dont have a question. Im just kidding. Mayor de blasio you cut yourself. Im impressed. Reporter i have more important questions to ask. The first is to get to, using a backs metaphor focusing on the priority zones you have identified, some people have criticized it because the list was formulated in the summer and it does not take into account the second wave we experience in the fall and maybe continue to experience. Will you be adding other places to this list . What are you planning . Mayor de blasio we are going to look at the reality of the second wave, absolutely. We want to look at the whole picture. I will remind all of us that what happened in the first wave was indescribably horrible. The second wave has been worrisome, but nowhere near what we went through in the first wave. We have to really understand the first wave laid bare where the vulnerabilities are and the amount of people we lost. What was folks who have not had health care in their life historically. We are going to look at the priorities with all the latest data, and we will make revisions as needed. Go ahead. Reporter my second question can you hear me . Sorry. My second one is about the vaccination plan, specifically school gymnasiums. Will it be schools that are open or closed . Will it affect reopening plans . Mayor de blasio it will not affect reopening plans. But we will do is obviously to be worked out over the coming days. The fact is that we are going to use every and any space we need that is part of what the City Government has. Hospitals, local nonprofits, whatever it takes. There were lots of ways to put this together. Its a way that allows the other operations to keep going around it. It allows us to get the vaccinations to those that need them. Im confident we can strike that balance, but the details will be worked out. Next, from the city. Reporter mr. Mayor, i wanted to ask mayor de blasio you sound like you are on the north pole. What is going on . Theyour mouth closer to phone or something. I cannot hear you well. Try. Reporter i want to follow up on the report. The incident where the police car drove into the group of have you had a to them . Speak mayor de blasio ive talked to the deputy mayor and ask him to have that conversation, and we have not gotten that feedback. Go ahead. Reporter they told me that the way the executive order was, there has not been any investigation that would and they are not planning to look into it. The other is [indiscernible] cannot old me they they are not going to release the information because of a lawsuit. Wondering, is that where things stand . Whether those officers were disciplined or not. I will do myio best as a nonlawyer. Last i heard, that lawsuit is Still Standing in the way of the disclosure of a lot of information we are ready to make public about disciplinary records. I dont believe that is going to go on that long. I believe at some point this case will be resolved, and it will make clear that our ability to release records is now quite clear under the new state law, and we will release those records. I dont think the lawsuit has gotten to the point where we can do it yet. We will confirm that back to you today. My goal is abundantly clear. That theappreciative legislature finally got rid of what was wrong with the 50 a law and gave us the ability to be transparent. That transparency about disciplinary records is going to help people trust their police. It is going to help people be safer. Im looking forward to the day when we will do the full release. As soon as we get clearance from the courts, we are going to progress with that. Question of the day goes to steve burns. Reporter happy new years eve to you. Im happy to have the last question. Mayor de blasio it is a great honor to you. Reporter i will try to do it justice. Plane Vaccine Distribution hospitals, Nursing Homes they are obviously controlled environments. When you move them out to a school or Public Housing lobby, a place where the public can access them, what goes into the verification of knowing that this person has the job they say they have, so when you move into the public spaces, how are you verifying that this is someone who should be getting it right now . Mayor de blasio it is a good question. The ideaart by saying whatever spaces depending on the priorities as we get through one priority, we are the next going to have more success reaching people. We have to do it. Think about schools are in every community. People have to come in to the weekends for a school we do not think the school day makes sense. He could still do vaccinations on a weekend. We have community centers. We could dedicate space specifically for vaccinations. This is only going to work if we get out to the grassroots, but we are going to do it in a way that is safe and smart. To the verification of people and their categories, i want to say i will pass to the doctor. Identification, including i. D. N. Y. C. It has a birthday on it and that tells you one of the categories which is a priority, which is older folks. For other types of priorities, give us a flavor of how you are going to do that. Dr. Chokshi a couple of points. The first is to build on what the mayor said. Between hospitals and what we will be doing out in the community, including at schools, there are many other Access Points that are controlled environments, whether they are Urgent Care Centers or pharmacies. These are the places where the everyday miracle of vaccination happens, whether it is influenza vaccines or vaccines for children. We are going to be taking advantage from all of those Access Points in between those described. With eligibility, i want to take a step and speak to my fellow new yorkers to say we all need yes, as anout this, issue of fairness and justice, but also just think about who is being prioritized and why. We want nursing home residents to be prioritized because we know they are most at risk. We know we want our Health Care Workers prioritized because they are the ones that we are depending upon when we get sick. This is an incredibly Important Message to have spread as widely as possible so that people take that into account as they think about where their turn is in line. The state will have some additional requirements with respect to eligibility screening. That will be sure to follow, and that will become more important as we expand out the categories, which will happen as rapidly as possible. Reporter on an entirely different topic, you saw the governor is allowing a limited number of fans to see the Buffalo Bills playoff game in a couple of weeks. He said that could be a pilot for similar events and venues. Would you be onboard if that type of Pilot Program were to be tested at Madison Square garden or at Yankee Stadium or city field . Would that be something you would be open to . I am mayor de blasio pro outdoors, antiindoors, is my initial view of the world. And listened to dr. Chokshi my other colleagues. Crucial difference from indoors. Masks on. Plan, thistand the is outdoors plus distancing plus masks plus testing, that is a good, thorough playroom. That is great. I am really happy for those bills fans and i think the governor did the right thing. He five, i can say when years is a long time to wait. To get back to the playoffs, i know people in buffalo are really excited at this moment. I think this has been done the right way, the careful way. With indoors, i would be much more cautious until we get to the point where there is very extensive vaccination. We want to make that happen very aggressively, but i think weve got to walk before we run, yet people vaccinated. Then, we can Start Talking about the future of indoor venues. Look, we, everyone, are new yorkers. We are proud. We are often the center of the universe. Tonight, we are definitely the center of the universe. The eyes of the world will be on new york city tonight and it will be a joyous night if ever there was one. I know that when we look back, we are going to say it is painful. New yorkers should be proud. World howshowed the to be strong, how to be resilient, how to look out for each other. 2021, we are going to show people what it looks like to recover and come back. We are going to do what new york city has done many times not just to come back, but making things better, fairer, stronger, more inclusive of all of us. We will do that in 2021. Im not even saying we can do that. We will do that in 2021. That is where we are. I have total faith in the people of this city. I cannot wait to get started. We are just about 13 hours away. It is going to be amazing. To everyone, a very happy new year. [speaking spanish] [speaking italian] any language you want to choose of any of the lang which is spoken in this beautiful city, it also has the same thing. We are turning the page and going someplace better. Thank you, everybody. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] cspan was created by americas Cable Television companies in 1979. Televisionhese companies, reminds his interviewers as a public service. 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