More than two-thirds of the 15 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine distributed in the U.S. have yet to be used, health officials said Monday, while the governors of New York and Florida warned they would penalize hospitals for not administering the vaccine quickly enough.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said New York hospitals must have the vaccine vaccinated within a week of receiving it or face fines and future supply cuts. A few hours later, he announced the state’s first case of the more infectious coronavirus.
“I don’t want it in the refrigerator or in the freezer, I want it in someone’s arm,” Cuomo said. “If you don’t do that, it does call into question the efficiency of the hospital.”
And Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a policy that will distribute more vaccines to the hospitals that get them the fastest.
“For hospitals that don’t do well in vaccinations, their vaccine quotas will be transferred to hospitals that do well,” DeSantis said during the briefing.
“We don’t want some of the vaccines in the hospital system to just sit there,” he added, without saying that the hospitals would face fines.
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