NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — Mount Sinai Hospital is canceling all COVID-19 vaccine appointments for the next five days due to a supply shortage, according to a Daily News report.
A spokeswoman for the Manhattan hospital told the paper that the facility canceled vaccine appointments between Friday, Jan. 15 and Tuesday, Jan. 19 “due to sudden changes in vaccine supply.”
“We will inform our patients when more vaccine supplies become available and reopen vaccination appointments for eligible patients. For anyone with appointments scheduled after Tuesday, we will provide updates as soon as we know more,” the spokeswoman said in a statement to the Daily News.
The news of the shortage came just days after the state expanded the number of people who are eligible to receive the immunization. There are roughly 7 million people in the state who can now receive the shot.
According to Mayor Bill de Blasio, the city is already running low on its vaccine supply and has urged the federal government to send more immediately.
“We could run out of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of next week if we don’t get a major shipment immediately,” the mayor said Wednesday. “The federal government need to stop holding back supplies. Release as many doses as possible so that we can finally get out of this crisis.”
On Thursday, de Blasio said the city had administered 303,671 doses of the vaccine.
In New York, groups 1A and 1B are eligible to get the shot.
This includes: all frontline healthcare workers, essential workers, police officers, firefighters, teachers and adults over the age of 65.
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