Gov. Andrew Cuomo is hesitant about how New Yorkers want to get vaccinated against COVID-19, while Mayor Bill de Blasio has made it easier for Empire State residents to open and jab all locations in the city. Vaccination sites for walk-in appointments.
“It was inevitable that you’re going to hit a period, a point of hesitation,” Cuomo said during a virtual press briefing on Friday, when a reporter was asked if he was about to “hesitate” That vaccine is about hesitation and what she will do to provide “encouragement” for New Yorkers to be inoculated.
“The first wave was people who are willing to take the vaccine,” Cuomo explained while speaking at the headquarters of a nonprofit institution in Manhattan. “You’ll then hit the point where that population is no longer coming, and you’re just dealing with the hiccuping population – we’re not there yet.”
The governor said, “We are still booking appointments. We are still, we have weeks of appointments that are still being booked. “
Cuomo acknowledges that being a walk-up coronavirus vaccine site makes people “easier to take shots”, yet by Friday only 60 and older are allowed to walk and vaccinate at any state-run inoculation site was.
“If someone doesn’t want to take the vaccine, I don’t know that offering them an incentive is really going to work. I think you can take the disinfectant away.
Cuomo said that once the state draws on the “main population” of “hesitating” people to get the vaccine, it is “what their problem is and see if we can address it.”
Cuomo insisted, “I believe there is going to be an informational attack, and an informational campaign, but the research we are doing and that is what we are looking at.” People are not making appointments. “
“They’re still making appointments, and we still have more [vaccine] Supply issue compared to demand, ”he said.
To date, more than 8.6 million New Yorkers, or 43.4 percent of the state’s population, have received at least one vaccine dose.
Meanwhile, de Blasio announced Friday that all vaccinated sites in New York City are now open for walk-in appointments to all New Yorkers, when The Post made a front-page call for change.
Later friday The mayor’s office announced That any New Yorker who gets vaccinated at the new site at the American Museum of Natural History will receive a voucher for a free visit to the museum for himself and three guests.
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