NYC Moves on from Covid as New Round of Omicron Shots Roll Out
Health officials will have to figure out how to get people boosted who have tired of the pandemic.
A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine in New York.
Photographer: Michael Nagle/BloombergNew York City’s Javits Center is back to hosting conventions. The American Museum of Natural History is no longer vaccinating people (though the whale still has her bandage). And for many city residents, the fervent scramble to book appointments for shots in the spring of 2021 has given way to a very different feeling: apathy.
Fresh booster shots that target the two most widespread forms of Covid-19 are now becoming available in New York state and city in a vaccine drive that, more than 2 1/2 years into the pandemic, looks anemic compared with those that came before it. Expected to be met with tepid demand as the pandemic response shifts away from an emergency phase, the bivalent shots will be administered not at mass vaccination sites, but in doctors’ offices, hospitals and pharmacies.