Mayor Bill de Blasio is urging all parents and guardians to make sure their children get vaccinated, this after the city has seen a steep decline in vaccination rates during the pandemic.
“The vaccination rate in this city – this is striking – the vaccination rate in this city has been falling during this crisis and the sheer magnitude of it has become clear to us during the last few days,” the mayor said, adding that the data compiled “was shocking and troubling.”
The city’s Health Department looked at the vaccination rate — the number of vaccine doses administered — and compared the period from March 23, “when this crisis had really gone into high gear to May 9,” de Blasio said. Then the department compared that six-week period this year to that same period last year.
What the city found was that vaccine doses are down 63 percent. Vaccine doses in children 2 years old and younger are down 42 percent, while vaccinations in children older than 2 years are down a whopping 91 percent.
(AP)
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Why is this incompetent shocked. After spending 2+ months along with a complying media scaring the daylights out of people from going to hospitals why is he surprised. Hospitals all across the city even including covid patients are seeing far fewer patients than they normally would at this time of year.
Well, of course, what did he expect? Medical offices are all either closed or lying idle because we’ve all been told to stay away from them. People are going without vital treatment, let alone vaccinations. We’re going to see a lot of deaths r”l from this, over the next year or so.
Well what do u expect when many doctors offices are closed for routine visits?
Maybe we can finally get a vaxxed versus unvaxxed study (thanks to corona) or other studies such as sids deaths during the weeks that children have not been vaccinated.
Well everyone is scared still to go outside, and they can’t meet anyone outside their own family who’s already been vaccinated, of course they’re not going to go get the vaccines they need!
My kids pediatrician was closed until last week, how was I supposed to get my child their vaccines? Thankfully, we just them all the required vaccinations.