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Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his 2021 State of the State address in the War Room at the state Capitol Monday. (Provided photo â Mike Groll, governor s office)
ALBANY Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged in his annual address Monday to vaccinate millions of residents and jumpstart the state’s flagging economy even as more than 10,000 New Yorkers continue to test positive for COVID-19 each day. The governor’s State of the State address which will continue throughout the week comes as the state tries to balance reopening its economy with ending a pandemic whose death toll is now nearing 40,000 people, according to data collected by the John Hopkins University School of Medicine. New York’s hospitals and nursing homes have recorded nearly 4,100 new deaths of people with COVID-19 over the past 30 days, and the state is now seeing more new COVID-19 cases per-capita than 35 other states.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged New York will vaccinate millions and jumpstart its flagging economy in his 2021 as part of his annual address to the state that began Monday