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NY bringing Covid-19 vaccine into public housing, churches for seniors
Updated Jan 23, 2021;
Posted Jan 23, 2021
Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave an update on Jan. 23, 2021, about a plan to vaccinate seniors living in public housing.Teri Weaver | tweaver@syracuse.com
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Syracuse, N.Y. – State health officials are setting up Covid-19 vaccine clinics inside public housing facilities in New York City, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today that tactic will spread across the state.
“We bring the vaccine to the people,” Cuomo said of the effort to get more older people living in subsidized housing. “We’re going to do it all across the city, all across the state.”
Updated: 12:17 PM PST, January 22, 2021
Kevin Gavin, 66, manipulated his friendship with the seniors living in the Carter G. Woodson Senior Houses in Brownsville, Brooklyn before brutally murdering them, the Brooklyn district attorney said.
A handyman for a low-income housing complex for seniors in New York City has been arrested for the suspected serial killings of three elderly women. Authorities said the handyman lived in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) building and took advantage of his friendship with these women before carrying out the brutal killings, which included stabbing, bludgeoning and strangulation by telephone cord.
Kevin Gavin, 66, of Brooklyn, was taken into custody Thursday and charged with three counts of second degree murder. He allegedly admitted to the killings, and claimed his victims didn’t pay him for his services, the New York Post reported.
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