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Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 340 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. Today's main story, as vaccines roll out across the U.S., logistics and supply are just

some of the challenges in making sure everyone has equal access to the vaccine.

One Boston health system is also confronting another major problem in vaccine distribution.

A long history of racial inequity in the U.S. healthcare system.

But first, here's what happened in virus news today. New York City may have to hold back as many as 35,000 vaccine appointments after severe winter storms across the nation delayed deliveries.

That's according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The city currently has fewer than 30,000 first doses on hand and could run out by the end of the day on Wednesday.

South Africa will begin administering Johnson & Johnson's vaccine to health workers

following the arrival of a first

consignment of the shots on Tuesday night. The country has offered its supply of the AstraZeneca

Oxford vaccine to the African Union, after it was found to have little effect on the variant

first identified in the country late in 2020.

South Africa has recorded more than 1.49 million coronavirus cases, the most in Africa.

And finally, in New Zealand, Auckland's three-day lockdown will end after authorities'

expressed confidence that the latest community outbreak is contained.

Auckland moved to alert level two at midnight on Wednesday, allowing schools and businesses

to reopen.

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