New York City reportedly only vaccinated 2,617 people so far in 2021, and has been doing so at a rate less than 10,000 per day since the vaccine came out, according to city statistics.
New York City reportedly only vaccinated 2,617 people so far in 2021, and has been doing so at a rate less than 10,000 per day since the vaccine came out, according to city statistics.
At the current rate of vaccination in the city, less than half of the city's 8 million population will be vaccinated by the end of the year.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has said that he aims to vaccinate 1 million people by the end of January, Reuters reports; a goal that appears like it won't come to fruition unless healthcare workers pick up the pace.
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View on XCritics have cast scrutiny on New York City's sluggish vaccination rate, especially since Florida pulled ahead in the race to vaccinate, achieving a rate of 823 per 100,000 residents, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
New York City's vaccination rate is roughly 723 per 100,000 residents, 14 percent slower than Florida's rate.
"It’s chaos out there. The state has no idea what it’s doing," Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin said, the New York Post reports.
"The Cuomo handling of the vaccine is blithering incompetence," he added.
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