President-elect Joe Biden says he knows his $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan "does not come cheaply" but he says America can t afford to fail to pass the plan.
Vaccine frenzy in New York: Hundreds line up and traffic is jammed for eight blocks after false rumors spread on social media about spare doses being given away as state s rollout is branded a completes mess
Reports on social media said 400+ doses were available to anyone aged 18+ at the Brooklyn Army Terminal
Claims sent New Yorkers into a frenzy Thursday night with around 500 flocking to the site
New York City officials tweeted that this was misinformation and sent cops to disperse the crowds
Less than 4% of the state s population have so far been vaccinated, according to data from Bloomberg
Governor Cuomo and NYC Mayor de Blasio have pushed the blame onto the federal government
What has to happen to get more people vaccinated right now? This is what experts say
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Jan 15, 2021, 9:40am EST
Just hours after President-elect Joe Biden laid out his American Rescue Plan, he is set to unveil his plan for administering more COVID-19 vaccines.
Biden wants to vaccinate 100 million people in the first 100 days of his presidency.
His plan includes setting setting up mass vaccination centers and sending mobile units to hard-to-reach areas.
Plus hiring 100,000 public health workers to help encourage people to get vaccinated, and to trace the contacts of those infected with the coronavirus.
As we have been reporting, the vaccination rollout has been off to a slow start. Only about 10.3 million people are vaccinated so far, even though more than 29 million doses have been delivered.
Jan 15, 2021 NEW YORK (AP) New Yorkers lined the sidewalks and cars jammed the streets near a Brooklyn coronavirus vaccine site Thursday after false rumors spread of extra doses available to the general public. Messages spread online claimed several hundred doses had to be given out by Thursday evening and that any adult was welcome, whether they had an appointment or not. The resulting chaos near the Brooklyn Army Terminal brought out police and city workers to tell people that no, it wasn’t true and vaccinations are appointment-only, and for certain populations according to priority. Online, mayoral spokesman Bill Neidhardt said on Twitter, “There is NOT available vaccine for people without appointments. This was misinformation and the notification did not come from the NYC gov.”
Dozens of New Yorkers were turned away after a miscommunication over vaccine availability. | Amanda Eisenberg/ POLITICO
Vaccine miscommunication results in chaotic scene in Brooklyn
A message that may have been intended for a select few went viral Thursday evening, prompting New Yorkers from at least three boroughs to rush to Sunset Park s Brooklyn Army Terminal in the hopes of getting leftover Covid-19 vaccines. Please share: We need to give out 410 doses in next 4hours at Brooklyn Army Terminal (by 7pm), taking anyone in community age 18+, walk ins, or earlier than scheduled, the text read, which was shared on Facebook and Twitter and prompted hundreds to descend upon the warehouse complex hoping to get inoculated.