The COVID-19 vaccine is pictured in this AP photo.
NEW YORK (AP) Frustrated by the flow of coronavirus vaccine from the federal government, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday floated the idea of buying shots for New Yorkers directly from one of the vaccine makers, Pfizer.
The idea seemed far from a sure bet, with the pharmaceutical giant saying it would need federal approval to sell to state governments. If that were to happen, the cost and amount have yet to be be discussed.
Regardless, Cuomo said he felt compelled to broach the idea as his state, like many others, faces tough vaccine math. At the current pace of federal vaccine shipments to New York, it could take six months or more to get shots to the 7 million residents already eligible under federal guidelines, let alone the roughly 12 million other New Yorkers. Residents have been scrambling to try to get the shots, with many getting shut out and upset.
146,675 vaccine doses have been shipped to Massachusetts, 35,618 administered since shots were made available, data shows
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
Massachusetts has received 146,675 COVID-19 vaccine doses since the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna immunizations received emergency approval roughly two weeks, according to the Department of Public Health’s vaccine dashboard.
It’s the first time the Department of Public Health has published what officials say will be a weekly report on the number of vaccine shipments received by the state and doses administered to residents.
Since Dec. 15, 35,618 first doses of the shots were administered to Massachusetts residents, primarily health care workers and others at risk for infection or on the front lines. Dec. 18 saw the most vaccinations in a single day, with 8,789, data shows.
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