More New Yorkers are set to become eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine this week.
Beginning on Tuesday, April 6, any New Yorker age 16 or older can begin scheduling an appointment to receive the vaccine.
The expanded eligibility comes in the wake of similar moves in neighboring New Jersey and Connecticut, and well in advance of President Joe Biden’s pledge to have the country vaccinated before the calendar turns to May.
"We went through a long winter ... The COVID winter. The coldest, darkest, most frightening winter we've ever gone through," Cuomo said during a press briefing on Monday, April 5. "We have to crush COVID ... And we have it on the run, but now is the time we have to crush it once and for all, and the first step toward doing that is you have to take the vaccine."