Posted on January 15, 2021 at 9:39 am by Carol Tannenhauser
By Carol Tannenhauser
Mt. Sinai Hospital canceled all vaccination appointments from Friday, January 15, until Tuesday, January 19 – a sudden and surprising change for those who made the list. People who had appointments on those days were notified by text messages and phone calls on Thursday afternoon. Mt. Sinai released the following statement:
Unfortunately, due to sudden changes in vaccine supply, we were forced to cancel our existing public vaccination appointments from Friday, January 15, to Tuesday, January 19. We will inform our patients when more vaccine supplies are available and reopen vaccination appointments for eligible patients. For anyone with an appointment after Tuesday, we will provide updates as soon as we know more. “
Lois Wolff, 76, was “horrified” when she received the news around 5:30 pm on Thursday. She and her husband had appointments at Monte. Sinai this Friday morning. “We were very relieved to get them,” said Wolff. “I can’t tell you how nervous we’ve been all these months. And Mt. Sinai was very efficient! Yesterday, 24 hours before the minute, I received a message from them confirming my appointment.
“I also got a call about the cancellation,” continued Wolff, “a living human being. I said, ‘How could you do that?’ She said, ‘Well, we are without them. We’ll call you when we have more. I said, ‘What happens when you get them? Do we have to go to the bottom of the list? ‘She said,’ No, no, let’s get this sorted out. ‘
Mt. Sinai may not be the only hospital forced to cancel appointments. “A source at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx said the hospital canceled recent vaccination appointments, but did not offer employees a reason for that,” wrote the Daily News. “An employee said there are no supply problems.”
The WSR also heard from reliable sources that similar problems may be occurring at Northwell, NYU and New York Presbyterian hospitals. We will keep you informed.