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NYC to Receive 72,000 Doses of Pfizer Vaccine This Weekend: First, for Nursing Homes and Healthcare Workers

NYC to Receive 72,000 Doses of Pfizer Vaccine This Weekend: First, for Nursing Homes and Healthcare Workers

By Yehudit Garmaise

    As early as this weekend, New York City could receive 72,000 vaccine doses of Pfizer’s initial delivery of 170,000 doses to the state, which is distributing the vaccine according to each region’s number of nursing homes residents and staffs and other high-risk health care workers, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who added that state is still waiting for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to grant emergency approval, which could arrive by Thursday.

    As it is the most populous and has the largest number of nursing home residents and healthcare workers, New York City will receive the largest allocation of Pfizer vaccines in the state. Long Island will receive the second largest allocation of about 26,500 doses, the governor said. The Mid-Hudson Valley will receive about 19,200 doses, Western New York will be allocated 14,500 doses, while most other New York regions will receive less than 10,000 doses each of the Pfizer’s first vaccine delivery this weekend.

   Once the vaccine is delivered and FDA-approved, Gov. Cuomo’s appointed team of “Nobel-prize willing” New York health experts will immediately conduct an independent efficacy review of the vaccine.

    To aid in the effective distribution of the vaccine to the 19.5 million residents of New York, Gov. Cuomo’s administration has set up 90 regional distribution centers across the state, where vaccine doses will be stored at the required subzero temperatures before being shipped off to nursing homes and hospitals.

   Gov. Cuomo then explained that he has opted into to a federal program in which trained CVS and Walgreens pharmacy staff will join local health care workers to help in administering the shots to nursing home residents and front-line hospital workers.

    After vaccinating nursing home residents and healthcare workers, according to federal guidelines, New York then will vaccinate non-healthcare front-line workers, such as teachers and police officers, as well as people with pre-existing conditions. 

  Everyone else, or “the general public,” the governor said, probably will begin to get vaccinated in the beginning of February, at the earliest.

(Mike Groll/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)


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