New York state will start fining hospitals that don’t administer allotted COVID-19 vaccines inside every week of receiving their provides and can decline to offer them with additional doses, Governor Andrew Cuomo mentioned in a information convention on Monday.
The US federal authorities has distributed greater than 13 million vaccine doses to states and territories across the nation, however solely round 4 million have really been administered, based on information from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention final up to date on Saturday.
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New York Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker notified hospitals of the potential actions in a letter on Sunday, Cuomo informed reporters.
“I don’t want the vaccine in a fridge or a freezer, I want it in somebody’s arm,” he mentioned. “If you’re not performing this function, it does raise questions about the operating efficiency of the hospital.”
In Florida, the place officers have put senior residents forward of many important employees for getting the vaccine, Governor Ron DeSantis introduced a coverage beneath which the state would allocate doses to hospitals that dispense them most rapidly,
“Hospitals that do not do a good job of getting the vaccine out will have their allocations transferred to hospitals that are doing a good job at getting the vaccine out,” DeSantis mentioned at a briefing.
“We do not want vaccine to just be idle at some hospital system,” he added, although he didn’t say they might face fines.
Florida may even deploy an extra 1,000 nurses to manage vaccines and can maintain state-run vaccination websites open seven days every week, he mentioned.
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