COVID Vaccine In New York: White House Boosting State's Supply Of Doses By 5%
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- New York is set to receive another increase in COVID vaccine doses from the federal government.
The state is currently receiving about 300,000 doses of the vaccine each week.
Tuesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the White House is boosting the state's supply by 5%.
This is the third time the Biden administration has upped the number of doses being sent to states, but the governor says more is needed to meet demand.
"Over the past three weeks, it has been relatively significant. Again, not proportionate to the need, but that has been helpful," Cuomo said. "You now have about 10 million New Yorkers waiting on 300,000 doses."
To date, 2.5 million doses have been administered in New York.
