The president of the borough of Brooklyn, Eric Adams, was posted this Sunday in front of the offices of the New York State Department of Health (DOH), in Lower Manhattan , to demand the adoption of a plan to accelerate the distribution of COVID – 19 vaccines in the city, authorizing the expansion of those eligible to be vaccinated.
The call comes amid criticism of the slow deployment across the city of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, while test positivity rates have risen in some communities to an extreme of 15%; in the first 17 days after the vaccine is released. While around 340, 000 doses of vaccines have been delivered to the New York City, only a few 88, 000 New Yorkers had received the first of two doses, Adams denounced.
Experts have stated that they believe that cases will start to decrease once between the 10 and the 20% of the city has been vaccinated, although so far only about 1% of the city’s population has received their first dose.
Adams announced that it has outlined, what in its discretion should be the immediate steps that the state and city should take, including implementing a color-coded plan of three levels, to increase transparency and public confidence in the vaccination effort, while clearing the bureaucratic bottleneck in which it is, by the way of seeking to achieve immunity collective d and save lives.