For months, doctors worked from the sidelines as New York s COVID-19 vaccine rollout focused heavily on pharmacies and mass-vaccination sites.
Now they re playing a key role in convincing their patients many of whom are hesitant to step up and get the shot.
Among those doctors is Dr. Sandra Kesh, a Westchester County infectious-disease specialist who says she s convinced scores of patients to get the vaccine recently.
As authorities shipped more doses directly to Kesh and other doctors, her vaccination pitch to patients steadily added more COVID conspiracy-busting facts. And she finetuned her heartfelt pleas for patients to protect themselves and others by getting the shots.
COVID vaccine hesitancy: How NY doctors convince patients to get the shot
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New York to construct monument honoring service, sacrifice of essential workers throughout pandemic
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In this Thursday, May 14, 2020 photo, a junior doctor holds his stethoscope. (Hannah McKay/Pool Photo via AP)
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ALBANY, N.Y. (WKBW) â New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday a monument will be constructed to honor the service and sacrifice of essential workers across the state throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. There can be no way to ever fully repay the essential workers who aided in our recovery from this devastating, once-in-a-century pandemic, Governor Cuomo said. These true heroes continue to aid and inspire us and they have our utmost respect. To honor them, we want them to create a monument to stand for all time as New York emerges tougher and stronger than ever.
Construction workers wait in line to do a temperature test to return to the job site after lunch, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, US, November 10, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]
New York is looking ahead to the prospect of creating thousands of jobs and generating millions of dollars in sales taxes after it became the latest US state to legalize the recreational use of cannabis.
The Empire State last week became the 15th state to fully legalize the use of the drug by adults for recreation.
The state expects that legal marijuana sales for those aged 21 and older will begin in about a year as it issues cannabis business licenses while preparing to enforce a lengthy list of new marijuana statutes. Smoking marijuana will be legal wherever smoking tobacco is allowed. Users will be allowed to possess up to 3 ounces (85 grams) of the drug.
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