ALBANY, N.Y. — A total of 827,715 doses of a coronavirus vaccine have been administered so far in New York state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in his Friday COVID-19 briefing.
Of those, 731,285 were first doses and 96,430 were second doses. So, among a total population of 19.5 million, about 3.75 percent of New Yorkers have received at least one vaccine dose, while about 0.5 percent (one out of every 200 residents) have been fully vaccinated.
The governor said 74 percent of the vaccine first doses New York State has received from the federal government have gone into arms. It’s 80 percent in Central New York, 83 percent in the Mohawk Valley, 90 percent in the North County, and 78 percent in the Southern Tier.
(Sponsored)
New York State Now Requires 30-Minute Paid Lactation Breaks
For the past year or so, New York employers have been adapting to the State law protections granting employees returning from childbirth leave the right to express breast milk at
The Pay Transparency Laws Become Effective On September 17th. Are You Ready?
Later this month New York will join a handful of States in the US which require greater transparency in wages. In December 2022, the Governor signed into law new wage
Cuomo said the state has been scheduling appointments up to 14 weeks out and most of the vaccine sites are fully booked. The governor contended that the state is limited by the federal supply of 300,000 doses per week, which was reduced to 250,000 for next week.
New York and every distributor of the vaccine is saying, “I need more,” and every citizen is saying, “I want it faster,” per Cuomo.
The governor said the five mass-vaccination sites the state has already set up, like the one at the New York State Fairgrounds in Geddes, and the eight sites it will add next week, are the most-effective way to get the vaccines into New Yorkers’ arms in big numbers.
