Mayor, officials hope by mid-2021 there will be a COVID vaccine for ‘anyone who wants it’ in NYC
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability at City Hall on Monday, December 14, 2020. (Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. City officials said Tuesday that they hope for COVID-19 vaccines to be widely available by the middle of next year.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Dr. Dave Chokshi, the city’s health commissioner, said during a morning press briefing that the early focus will be on front line healthcare workers along with nursing home staff and patients, in accordance with state guidelines.
Monday’s COVID-19 data: Hospitalizations increase slightly, new cases continue to climb
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. While the first doses of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine were administered Monday on Staten Island, new cases and hospitalizations once again climbed on the borough as the country’s death toll surpassed 300,000.
There were 235 new cases reported since Sunday, according to city Health Department data, after 277 positive tests were tallied between Saturday and Sunday.
In total, 25,350 borough residents have tested positive for the virus, the data shows.
As of 1 p.m. Monday, 1,188 borough residents are believed to have succumbed to the disease, which represented a drop of two from yesterday’s total when seven new deaths were initially considered “probable.”
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NYPD: Man with cocaine stash in butt went on wild rampage, assaulting cop, nurse
Updated Dec 12, 2020;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A 24-year-old man with cocaine hidden in his buttocks beat officers at the 122nd Precinct stationhouse in New Dorp and a nurse at Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze, police allege.
Officers stopped the suspect, Erik Velazquez, of Piave Avenue in South Beach, while he did not have a valid license but was driving a blue, 2019 Ford Focus on Mill Road between Ebbitts Street and Tysens Lane on Tuesday at about 3:25 p.m., according to the criminal complaint and police.