De Blasio envisions ‘Summer of New York City’ with full reopening from COVID lockdowns on July 1 Dave Goldiner, Denis Slattery, Shant Shahrigian
Over a year after the initial COVID outbreak shut down schools, businesses, eateries and everything else that makes the Big Apple great, Mayor de Blasio announced Thursday the city would “fully reopen” on July 1.
“We can see that light at the end of the tunnel,” he said at a press conference. “This is going to be the summer of New York City.”
The mayor envisioned everything from offices and schools to businesses and theaters operating at full capacity, saying, “people are going to flock here from all over the country to be part of this amazing moment in New York City.”
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In this photo illustration Food and Drug Administration and Johnson & Johnson logos are seen in front of a medical syringe and vials. (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire/TNS)
US urges pause of Johnson & Johnson vaccine over ‘extremely rare’ blood clotting
WASHINGTON Local and state officials nationwide scrambled Tuesday to keep their Covid-19 vaccination campaigns on track after federal health agencies recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson shots while they studied reports of very rare but dangerous blood clots.
The White House said Pfizer and Moderna were producing enough of their own vaccines to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of having enough doses for every American adult by the end of May. But the announcement was still a blow to the U.S. inoculation effort, which relies on public faith in the rapidly developed vaccines to persuade enough people to get shots to prevent another wave of infections and end the pandemic.
PICTURED: New York s empty COVID vaccination centers as distribution falters and healthcare worker says we blew it
Pictures show the Lincoln High School and the George Westinghouse Vocational High School in Brooklyn were ghost towns last Saturday
One Department of Health worker at Hillcrest High School in Queens said: You cannot imagine how much nothing it was. W
e just blew it
The vaccine trackers shows half the amount of vaccinations were given on January 30 - 18,866 - compared to the previous day - 39,964
Daily number of people getting vaccinated now surpasses the numbers infected The CDC said Saturday that 8,317,180 Americans have now received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, amounting to 2.5 percent of the population
On Thursday, New York City opened a mass vaccination site at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx
By the afternoon, at least 300 appointments had still not been filled between February 7 and February 12
New York City Councilman Mark Levine slammed the city for poor outreach and said more canvassers needed to be on the ground
In New York City, white residents are three-fold more likely to receive the coronavirus vaccine than Latinos and four-fold more likely than black residents
However, a dark history of medical experiments has fueled hesitancy among minority communities
Just 14% of black Americans and 34 percent of Latin Americans trust that coronavirus vaccines are safe, one report found
Pregnant women, asthma sufferers and obese adults of ANY age can get the vaccine in New York from February 15
Starting Feb 15, people with a list of comorbidities as set by the CDC can get the vaccine across the state of New York
They include pregnancy, pulmonary disease including asthma, cancer and liver disease
Obese people and people with Alzheimer s Disease or dementia are also eligible
The mass vaccination site at Yankee Stadium opened on Friday but many spots remain unclaimed
There continues to be a huge amount of distrust among black and Hispanic groups in the vaccine