Mayor de Blasio says NYC will run out of COVID-19 vaccine next week

Mayor Bill de Blasio sounded the alarm Friday that New York City🍰 is set 🥀to run out of coveted COVID-19 vaccine by next week.

“We will run out next week. I’m telling you, at this rate, there will not be any doses in the city of New York by the end of next week if we don’t get a major resupply [of vaccine],” de Blasio said during his weekly guest spot on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show.”

Hizzoner explaine🔥d that the Big Apple has been getting a resupply of “a very paltry” 100,000 doses per we𒆙ek and that the city went through 125,000 shots “in the first four days of this week.”

“Our numbers are increasing every day of how many people we can vaccinate,” de Blasio said, noting that nearly 34,000 people were i🅷noculated in the city Wednesday.

“If we don’t get a serious supply, we’re going to have to stop taking appointments, just as happened at Mount Sinai Hܫospital and NYU-Langone,” de Blasio said. “If there’s no supply, we’🐷re going to have to freeze the appointment system. That would be insane.”

Two of the city’s largest hospital systems of NYU-Langone and Mount Sinai are no 🔜longer booking vaccine appointments for the time being and all systems are expected to run out of vaccine by the end of next week without resupply, the mayor’s office said.

Man🔯hattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital was forced to turn away those seeking to get jabbed away this week even though people had appointments to receive the shot.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, speaking later Friday during his own press briefing, expla♋ined that 7 million New Yorkers are now eligible to receive the vaccine, but that there’s a backlog due to inadequate supply since the state only receives about 300,000 doses per week from the federal government.

“It’s l♐ike opening a floodgate and putting it through a syringe,” said Cuomo, who added that the state received a lesser amount of 250,000 shots this week.

At that rate, it will take six months to vaccinate all those currently🍸🌊 eligible, the governor said.

“Seven million people chasing 250,000 doses,” said Cuomo. “That’s the mathematical problem yo💫u can’t solve.”

Out of the 827,715 doses administered 🅘statewide, 731,285 of them were first doses, while 96,430 of them were second doses of the two-dose vaccine, Cuomo said, citing state data.

Cuomo said that anyone who ha𒁃s received their first dose should not be “worried” about not b⛎eing able to get their second dose even though supply is limited.

“We make sure we have a second dose for whoever got the fi𝄹rst do🎃se,” he said.

Commenting on de Blasio’s claims that New York City is on track to run out of vaccine supply, Cuomo said, “I don’t know exactly what the mayor was talking about…Some facilities are working through their past suppl🧸y.”

“Many New York City facilities have [vaccine] allocation unused,” said🧜 Cuomo.

The governor added that New York City will receive more doses next week, “but it will be less 𝓀because the overall allocation is le💯ss.”

City dat♊a as of Friday shows that out of 800,500 doses delivered in the Big Apple so far, 337,5💦18 shots have gone into people’s arms — about 42 percent.

The city has administered 71.3 percent of the 175,000 vaccines it aimed to distribute by the end of this we💦ekend, according to the mayor’s office, which said that as of Friday, t🦩he Big Apple has under 186,000 first doses remaining.