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After COVID isolation, new law protects nursing home visitation in New York. What to know David Robinson, New York State Team Life in nursing homes slowly returns to normal Replay Video UP NEXT As New York nursing homes begin resuming visitation after a year of COVID-19 lockdowns, a new state law will ensure facilities provide access to family members and other people acting as caregivers to residents despite future outbreaks. The law will protect the visitation rights of countless New Yorkers who provide physical, emotional and mental support for nursing home residents. It s...

The claim: California is vaccinating homeless people and prison inmates against COVID-19 before others Shifting plans for distributing COVID-19 vaccines are drawing out new criticism for plans to administer the shots. In a Facebook post on March 1, comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla took aim at the state of California. “In California the homeless and prisoners are getting the vaccine before taxpayers,” he wrote in the post that about 12,000 users have reacted to. “It sounds like something out of Idiocracy. If that isn’t the most California way of doing things I don’t know what is.�...

The federal government is close to delivering 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine during the month of December, as promised, but states are taking longer than expected to get those doses into people's arms, officials admitted Wednesday. About 15.5 million doses will be delivered by the end of the year, with the remaining 5 million arriving between Jan. 4-6, said Gen. Gus Perna, who co-leads Operation Warp Speed, the federal effort to develop and distribute COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and tests. But only about 1 million of the 9 million doses distributed so far have been reported administe...