New York state health officials announced Monday that one in four New Yorkers is now fully vaccinated for COVID-19. ore than 12 million doses of the vaccine have been administered in New York State. 174,822 doses have been administered across the state’s distribution network in the last 24 hours, and more than 1.5 million doses have been administered over the past seven days.
“New York State has done 12 million shots in arms and one in four New Yorkers has been fully vaccinated, which is great news. 38 percent of New Yorkers have gotten at least one dose. Supply is the limiting factor right now, but our distribution network is up and robust,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “We’ve been talking about getting college students vaccinated, which is more of a challenge than you might think. College students have been told early on that this doesn’t affect young people as seriously, but ironically we’re seeing positivity go up among young people 18 to 24. Even if they believe that they can’t get hurt by COVID, they can transmit COVID, and they can transmit COVID to someone who can get hurt. What we’re trying to do is get the students vaccinated in the schools before the schools are out.”
