The city-run COVID-19 vaccination site on Staten Island ran out of doses over the weekend – some would leave the recipient high and dry after they showed up without the facility that their appointments had already been canceled, officials said. Said on Tuesday.
NYC Health + Hospitals President and Chief Executive Officer Michelle Katz confirmed that the vaccine appointment at the Gotham Health / Vanderbilt Clinic in Clifton had to be canceled on Sunday as the facility used all of its shots.
“We ran out of the vaccine at Vanderbilt, which is not our fault, but it is our fault … that people were not given the right phone call to tell them,” Katz said during the press of Mayor Bill de Blasio They – his appointment was canceled. ” A reporter gave the information after being asked about the case.
“We are currently working on rescheduling all those people and I apologize to anyone who visited that site and did not receive a call before canceling it,” Katz said.
Katz said, “One of the challenges we face is that every week we get an unknown number of vaccines from the state distribution to each site on a particular day. Until that day, we do not know how many vaccines or sites we are getting, and then we are to use them as soon as possible. “
Vaccine appointments cannot be rescheduled “as long as I have the vaccine” at the city’s 11 public hospitals.
Katz noted that he was alerted to the issue on Monday morning.
“I know that yesterday they started calling, and I will check today and see how many people they have been able to reach,” Katz said.
It was not immediately clear how many New Yorkers had their vaccine appointments canceled at the Gotham Health / Vanderbilt site, but de Blasio called it “a small number of people”.
“It’s obviously not acceptable and it’s not what we want to see,” De Blasio said.
According to the mayor last week, approximately 340,000 vaccine doses were given in the Big Apple.
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