Demand accelerate distribution of vaccines in the Big Apple | The State

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams stood in front of the New York State Department of Health (DOH) offices in Lower Manhattan on Sunday to demand a plan be adopted to accelerate the distribution of COVID vaccines. -19 in the city, authorizing the expansion of those eligible to be vaccinated.

The call comes amid criticism of the slow city-wide rollout of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, while test positivity rates have risen in some communities to the extreme of 15%; in the first 17 days after the vaccine is released. While about 340,000 doses of vaccines have been delivered to New York City, only about 88,000 New Yorkers had received the first of two doses, Adams said.

Experts have stated that they believe cases will start to decline once 10-20% of the city has been vaccinated, although only about 1% of the city’s population has received their first dose so far.

Adams announced that it has outlined, what in its discretion should be immediate steps that the state and city should take, including implementing a three-tier color-coded plan, to increase transparency and public confidence in the effort to vaccination, while clearing the bureaucratic bottleneck in which it finds itself, in the way of seeking to achieve herd immunity and save lives.