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The New York state governor announced penalties for hospitals for failing to use their vaccine dispensing within a week.
"I don't want the vaccine in a refrigerator or freezer," said Andrew Cuomo.
"I want to have him in my arms with someone."
The hospitals in his state have so far used less than half of their allotted doses.
According to the US epidemic agency CDC, the proportion is even lower: According to their data, only a fifth of the 896,000 doses delivered in New York have so far been vaccinated.
4.5 million vaccine doses have been administered across the United States, with a total of 15.4 million doses delivered, according to the CDC.
The United States is the country worst hit by the pandemic in the world.
The CDC reported 212,117 new infections on Monday evening, making a total of more than 20.55 million
known cases.
For the first time, a case with the highly contagious mutation of the corona virus, which was discovered in Great Britain, was detected in New York.
The pathogen was identified in an older man, said Governor Cuomo.
The mutation could develop into a turning point in the infection process if hospital admissions increase and entire regions have to go into lockdown.
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