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38,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in New York State Gov. Cuomo says that New York has administered more doses of the vaccine than any other state. The state is also developing vaccine kits for remote areas. Author: Emyle Watkins Updated: 7:53 PM EST December 21, 2020 ALBANY, N.Y. — Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that New York State has administered 38,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, which his office says is the highest total in the nation...

Courtesy of Pixabay New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo eased off on his call to halt planes from Great Britain to New York City after he said he heard the federal government’s infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci say that he thinks a travel ban is premature. Fauci, who spoke on the PBS Newshour, did say that he, like Cuomo, suspects the mutated form of the virus might already be present in the U.S. British Airways, Virgin Airlines and Delta Airlines have agreed to test passengers on flights from...

  We stand together in expressing serious concern with the Trump administrations vaccine distribution plan.  While we are encouraged by recent reports regarding the vaccines efficacy, there is urgent work to be done to ensure vaccination efforts are both expeditious and fair.    Governors need federal funding in order to execute comprehensive distribution plans to guarantee that all communities have access to the vaccine.  The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials estimates...

  You are well aware of the desperate circumstances New York suffered at the outset of the COVID crisis and continues to endure today. We understand Congress is considering a short-term federal funding measure of approximately $908 billion in COVID-19 relief. As an interim measure, this proposal should address states immediate and pressing needs, and it is essential and fair that New York receive at least a minimum amount of funding necessary to stop further massive damage.   It is important ...

Do the right thing. i want to thank george gresham, seiu, randy winegartner. i want to thank all of our partners that made this possible. but most of all, i want congress to know we are serious. we organized these thousands in eight days. wednesday before last the grand jury came back. dont let us go home and organize three weeks on you because we will be back over and over again. members of congress, beware, were serious about the three

Particularly in ohio and florida. and you are also seeing it nerms of the line in terms of voting. >> george, talking about the terms of lines, early voting, all of us have been in florida the day that early voting started. i deal with the nonpartisan operation lemon side. but you guys are there for that and partisan stuff. the obama campaign released its memo on early voting. the math is clear. our opponent is losing among early voters in nearly every public poll in every battle ground state, m...

>> the key is one, we have thousand of people that have said they want to be a part of this. and the key for us is to make sure that we are getting out and talking to the people. i think as it has been said many times before, when people understand what is at stake, when people understand that difference between them having a future and not having a future, is simply getting out the vote no matter what the challenge is. people will react to that and so we have thousands of people all around the ...

Airports, i think the security guys know you by just seeing you come. the enthusiasm is the question. romney senior adviser on the abc show, "today", he said about undecided voters, wlauch this. watch this. >> there are aim sujss that the undecided voters wont turn out and will therefore prevail because of the superior ground game versus ours. number one, their ground game is not superior and number two i think they will come out pretty strongly against the president. >> so he thinks that they h...

Vote. the romney camp is ready. they released a memo saying they have made 125 million personal phone calls or visits up to this weekend. that means they have contacted nearly 40% of the country. romney campaign has only contacted 50 million people. the obama campaign also says they have registered nearly 1.8 million new voters in key battle ground states. almost double the number they registered in 2008. it all comes down to this. who can get out the vote? whos ground game will make the differe...

Country are breaking records? i dont know, the number speaks for themselves. >> the lines in ohio are breaking records. the lines in florida are breaking records. and thats after all of the voter suppression. i think whats happening and we will see this after the election. what is happening is this is people power versus money power. and all of those ads, and particularly take the jeep ad in ohio, it backfired on romney. at the end of the day, it will be who helps us have shared opportunity, sha...