Opening of Citi Field vaccination site postponed
BY ANGÉLICA ACEVEDO
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced
the mega COVID-
19 vaccination site at Citi
Field won’t open this week
as originally planned during
his Monday, Jan. 25, morning
press briefing.
The 24/7 vaccination site
— which the mayor said would
be a “game-changer” in the effort
to vaccinate all eligible
New Yorkers quickly — was
slated to open this week inside
the stadium’s Delta Lounge,
located at 41 Seaver Way in
Corona. But de Blasio said on
Monday that there is a supply
and flexibility “problem.”
“Even though we don’t
have the supply of vaccine
we need — we urgently need
more supply, we urgently need
more flexibility with the supply
we have — the vaccination
effort keeps moving forward,”
de Blasio said.
De Blasio said the city has
administered 628,831 vaccinations
since December. The city
set an ambitious goal at the
beginning of the year to get 1
million New Yorkers vaccinated
by the end of January.
The city currently has
19,000 first doses of the
COVID-19 vaccine, and is expecting
107,000 more in the
weekly re-supply, which de
Blasio says is still not enough.
Last week, the city had to
reschedule some vaccine appointments
due to a lack of
supply from the federal government.
On Monday, de Blasio said
the city has the capability to
administer 500,000 vaccinations
per week, if they are
granted the supply and the
flexibility they need from the
federal government.
The vaccine sites at Citi
Field and Yankee Stadium in
the Bronx — the opening of
which was also postponed —
would be run by NYC Health
+ Hospitals and have the capacity
to administer 5,000 to
7,000 vaccines a day.
The mayor said the city can
move “so fast” if the supply
and the flexibility to administer
the vaccine to more eligible
New Yorkers is granted.
“We have mega sites like
Citi Field and Yankee Stadium
ready to go, we want to get
those to be full-blown 24-hour
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operations, but we don’t have
the vaccine,” he said. “We’ve
got local, neighborhood providers,
folks who are at the
front lines who can build
trust, who can get folks from
the neighborhoods to come in
who speak their language. We
want to have a really neighborhood
based approach to
the vaccination, decentralized
and grassroots. We can
do that right now but we don’t
have the supply. We need the
supply and flexibility.”
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