Cuomo: N.Y. could begin vaccinating 12-15 age group as soon as Thursday
Eligibility dependent on CDC, New York vaccine panel review
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks last month at an event in the Bronx.CARLO ALLEGRI/Getty
ALBANY Vaccinations against COVID-19 for adolescents as young as 12 could begin as soon as Thursday in New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Tuesday.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer-BioNTech s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in adolescents as young as 12 on Monday, after a clinical trial found the vaccine to be extremely effective with mild to no side effects in participants between the ages of 12 and 15.
ALBANY, N.Y. â During his Friday morning press briefing, Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy continued the push to find more creative ways to get additional people vaccinated.
As of Thursday, 53.2% of Albany County s population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, 40% have been fully vaccinated. The statewide rate is 45.6% for the first dose and the full vaccination rate at 33.4%.
In total, Albany County has administered or reallocated 57,497 first and second doses of the vaccine to date.
- Advertisement - So we ve been talking about this, we ve been going back and forth and we ve got to reimagine how we re getting the vaccine out to people, trying to engage that certain population now that has the vaccine hesitation or doesn t want to receive the shot. So we re going to be coming up with a lot of different ideas and initiatives, McCoy remarked on attempting to craft incentives for people to become vaccinated.