PUBLISHED 11:46 AM ET Jan. 27, 2021 PUBLISHED 11:46 AM EST Jan. 27, 2021
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Nearly a third of nursing home residents in New York have declined to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday said at a news conference. All nursing home residents have been offered a vaccine, 72% have accepted the vaccine, Cuomo said. Some people do not want to receive the vaccine. We re seeing that across all subgroups.
That leaves 28% of residents who have not been vaccinated. Meanwhile, nursing home staffers are being offered access to the vaccine in tranches and all in New York will have had access to it by Feb. 7, Cuomo said. So far, 44% of nursing home staffers have received the first dose of the vaccine.
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As the coronavirus pandemic tested the viability of New York’s health care system, Gov. Andrew Cuomo turned again and again to Michael Dowling. The governor has worked closely with the leader of Northwell Health, New York’s biggest employer, relying on him as his chief intermediary with New York’s hospitals, naming his longtime ally to a panel to “reimagine” New York in the wake of COVID-19 and even making a Northwell nurse the first American to receive a coronavirus vaccine.
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Cuomo’s COVID-19 Task Force
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wasn’t the only state government official to build his celebrity thanks to his daily COVID-19 briefings that captivated the nation. Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa was at his side – socially distanced of course – along the way, while also heading up a coronavirus maternity task force. Also along for the ride were another former Cuomo secretary, Larry Schwartz, who resumed his role as behind-the-scene
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The Cuomo administration is refusing to release a full count of coronavirus deaths in New York nursing homes for another two months, until March 22nd.
In a letter to the Empire Center on Wednesday, the Health Department claimed that it needs a further nine weeks and five days “because the records potentially responsive to your request are currently being reviewed for applicable exemptions, legal privileges and responsiveness.”