Dr. Thomas Farley said the high-risk category now includes people with intellectual disabilities and an expansion of the definition of immunosuppression to include those who take drugs to suppress the immune system “for any reason.”
Farley also said that clergy members are now added to phase 1B.
“With the resumption of services, members of the clergy are at high risk of acquiring the COVID infection or passing it on, mainly by passing it on to elderly people,” said Farley.
As of Thursday, 402,000 first doses and 156,000 second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered across the city.
Farley said the supply of vaccination doses has stabilized. The city has been seeing increases, but officials have been told by the government that they will not receive additional vaccines from Pfizer or Moderna in the next three weeks.
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