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5 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
More than two-thirds of the 15 million coronavirus vaccines shipped within the United States have gone unused, health officials said, as the governors of New York and Florida vowed to penalize hospitals that fail to dispense shots quickly reut.rs/3bbCmwE
In New York, hospitals must administer vaccines within a week of receiving them or face a fine and a reduction in future supplies, Governor Andrew Cuomo said
New York hospitals on the whole have dispensed fewer than half of their allocated doses to date, but performance varied from one group of hospitals to another
The CDC reported an even lower vaccine uptake for New York overall, saying fewer than one in five of the 896,000 doses shipped to the state since mid-December have been given. Read more as most U.S. COVID-19 vaccines go idle reut.rs/3bbCmwE

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