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New York Front Line-Workers May Lose Priority Status If They Skip Vaccine: Cuomo
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January 8, 2021
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2:58Now PlayingNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo warned hospitals and health-care workers on Thursday that if they don’t take Covid-19 vaccines while it’s offered exclusively to them in the early days of the state’s inoculation drive, they will lose their priority status when the vaccine rolls out to the general public.
Cuomo said that’s why he is pushing back on requests by New York City and other local officials who’ve asked the state to expand the group of people eligible for the vaccine in a bid to speed up vaccinations in the state. New York has administered only 430,000 of the 900,000 doses it has received, leaving more than half of the Covid shots unused on the day the state reported the most daily coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic.
“Any health-care worker left behind when you open 1B, it’s going to be very hard to catch up,” Cuomo said on a phone call with reporters, referring to the second tranche of people eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
The initial batch is reserved for health-care workers, and Cuomo doubled down on his decision not to open up vaccines to other vulnerable cohorts until all people in the first group get it. The first phase, 1A, is limited to hospital workers, urgent care providers and nursing home residents and staff. Phase 1B includes firefighters, police officers and other first responders, as well as people over age 75.
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