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In the United States, vaccinations have been stopped in some areas due to a lack of vaccine for a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), Reuters and others reported on the 16th (local time).
The vaccine distributed as of the day was 12.3 million doses, and the population who received more than one dose was 10.6 million, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) counted.
The lack of vaccines was due to disruptions in the supply chain as the US authorities accelerated vaccination, the news agency said.
In fact, at least one medical institution in New York has canceled vaccination appointments, and new vaccinations are pending elsewhere.
One of them, Mount Sinai Hospital, said it had canceled the reservation until the 19th due to “abrupt change in vaccine supply.”
An official at New York University Hospital explained that new vaccinations will be stopped because the state has not confirmed supply of additional vaccines.
As a result, New York, the most populous city in the United States, is likely to run out of vaccines next week.
The population of New York is over 8 million, of which 300,000 have been vaccinated.
New York Mayor Bill de Blazio said, “We are getting insignificant amounts of 100,000 doses per week.”
The state government is struggling with the federal government.
Governor Kate Brown wrote on Twitter that he was told that there would be no additional supplies to Oregon because the federal government had no vaccine stock. “We are asking for an answer from the Trump administration.”
Colorado Governor Jared Police publicly sniped the health and welfare secretary Alix Aiza “lied” over the vaccine supply promised to Colorado.
This’lie controversy’ is due to the suspicion that it was different from the fact that Aza said on the 12th that “we will ship most of the vaccines for secondary vaccination stocked by the federal government.”
At the time, Minister Aza said that he would release the federal government’s strategic reserves in response to the vaccine shortage, but the Washington Post reported that there is no reserve left.
The WP cited anonymous officials and revealed that the Trump administration had already started shipping stockpiles of Pfizer and modders or vaccines at the end of December last year, and thus there is no immediate stock available.
Secretary Aiza started to evolve as state complaints arose.
He said on NBC that day, although there is no stockpile of vaccines, he believes that there will be enough vaccines for the second vaccination.
Pfizer also issued a statement that day and said that it has secured a vaccine for secondary vaccination at the request of the federal government, and that it does not see any disruption in distribution in the United States.
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