Mayor Bill de Blasio's press briefing is underway as of a startlingly ontime 10:02am.
Hizzoner says the city is again on the verge of running out of first doses of coronavirus vaccine. "The supply is not growing the way we need it to."
De Blasio says the city is holding off on scheduling 30-35k appointments for first doses will be delayed because of winter storms playing havoc with deliveries
City Hall is again calling for additional vaccine shipments, which, again, constrained by national supply issues. Also worth pointing out that NYC's vaccine shipments have nearly doubled in recent weeks.
My recorder died halfway through Hizzoner's announcement on websites, but it sounds like at least some additional city sites are being consolidated into the DOH scheduling system set up for jab centers on high school campus. And, it sounds like some private providers will use too
So, closer to one stop-vaccine scheduling
On state memo seemingly saying that testing would no longer be mandatory for in-school learning, Blas says City Hall was "surprised" but they are talking with the state BOE and sez he is confident the testing mandate will stay.

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