NYC Coronavirus Vaccine Supply Will Run Out Thursday: De Blasio

New York City NY

19 January, 2021

10:51 AM

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NEW YORK CITY — New York City won't have any coronavirus vaccine shots to give out after Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. De Blasio on Tuesday again warned the city's supply of COVID-19 is running dangerously low. He said there are only 92,000 doses left. They'll run out on Thursday at the rate vaccinations are going, he said. "We will have to cancel appointments and no longer give shots after Thursday for the remainder of the week," he said. New York City's vaccine supply relies on allocations from the federal government. But shots distributed in the city and state as a whole have been outpacing the supply. Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the weekend appealed to Pfizer — one of two companies with federally-approved vaccines — to sell doses to New York directly. De Blasio said the city would be on pace to distribute 300,000 doses this week, up from more than 220,000 last week. He said federal support is needed to ship more doses this week. Otherwise, the city won't get another resupply until Jan. 26.