CVS to soon start offering vaccines at some New York stores. Here s when
New York State Team
ALBANY - New York will be one of 11 states where CVS will begin offering COVID-19 vaccines, with the pharmacy chain saying it will have 20,600 doses for 32 stores across the state late next week.
CVS announced it has procured 250,000 doses that it will begin distributing next Thursday, Feb. 11 at select stores in the 11 states, which also includes neighboring Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
But that s a very limited supply, and the company said its allotment total for New York excludes New York City.
For comparison, New York gets about 300,000 doses a week for the entire state.
New York State Team
ALBANY - Tax collections in New York fell 10% last year compared to 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but some spending soared: Online shopping and, yes, alcohol sales.
The findings Tuesday from the state Comptroller s Office give a clear picture of where New Yorkers spending habits were during the pandemic, when in the early months many stores and malls were closed.
And the spending is critical for local governments: Sales-tax revenue is their top revenue source, even more than property taxes.
Overall, municipalities took in about $1.8 billion less in 2020 than in 2019, a major hit to their finances as state and local governments are hoping for a federal bailout. New York state is estimating a $15 billion deficit over the next two years.
New York State Team
COVID-19 deaths of nursing home residents in New York have been undercounted by about 50% as poor infection-control practices and understaffing fueled the coronavirus crisis inside the long-term care facilities, a probe by the state Attorney General s Office found.
The blockbuster investigation asserted the state Department of Health s controversial policy to only report COVID-19 deaths of residents inside nursing homes and exclude deaths of residents transferred to hospitals hindered attempts to improve conditions inside the facilities.
The true COVID-19 death toll of New York nursing home residents is closer to 13,000, as opposed to the 8,677 reported to date by the state Department of Health, according to the investigation s findings. Nursing homes might have also undercounted their deaths in reporting to the state, investigators said.
New York State Team
ALBANY - Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday said he feels the pain and sorrow of New Yorkers who lost loved ones in nursing homes after a critical report contended the state uncounted COVID-19 deaths in the facilities.
Cuomo said he understands people s anger over the deaths, which the state finally acknowledged Thursday was closer to 13,000 rather than the 8,700 it had been reporting, which had excluded nursing home residents who died in hospitals.
But he also defended the state s handling of the virus spread in nursing homes, saying, Everyone did the best they could as New York was the largest state to be first besieged by COVID last spring.