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New York Health Commissioner Defends Use of COVID-19 Drug Cocktail at State-Run Veterans Nursing Home
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New York’s chief physician deflected blame and side-stepped questions Thursday about the state’s handling of the pandemic in nursing homes including queries about use of an unproven COVID-19 treatment administered at a state-run nursing home in Queens.
Dr. Howard Zucker provided the fullest state response yet to a report by THE CITY, Columbia Journalism Investigations and Type Investigations that found at least 62 residents of the New York State Veterans’ Home at St. Albans were given hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin last spring despite risks documented by federal authorities yearsbefore the pandemic.
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now surpassed one million coronavirus vaccinations, hitting the mark with 1,032,158 doses given out as of Tuesday. That may sound like a lot, but remember that Mayor Bill de Blasio
pledged to do a million vaccinations in the month of January alone, on top of the ones already done in December. Now well into February, it’s fair to say we’re quite a bit behind schedule, as the mayor readily acknowledges.