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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and his staff were in damage control mode Thursday as they faced two scandals; the governor’s handling of nursing home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and allegations that the Democrat sexually harassed a former staffer.
Cuomo’s health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker, testified at a long awaited legislative budget hearing. Zucker, who had postponed his testimony, originally scheduled for three weeks ago, appeared two and a half hours late. He immediately addressed the nursing home controversy. Zucker says like all of the pandemic policies being put into place last spring, including those affecting nursing homes, decisions had to made quickly, before science made things more clear.
For a time in 2020, Governor Andrew Cuomo was considered one of the heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic for his steady and focused daily briefings when many
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Eyewitness News spoke with a woman from Nassau County, who did not want to be identified, who said her grandmother, who lives in Queens, got a call back and returned to Jones Beach on Monday to have her first dose repeated.
The woman said she was concerned, but her grandmother was taking it in stride. I don t want her to obviously be under vaccinated, but on the flip side is there any safety issue with her potentially now being over vaccinated because how do you know 100 percent that that dose did not take? the woman said.
Officials say the sites are expected to vaccinate over 25,000 people throughout the week, with more sites coming online every week.
On Broadway, the tethers are empty and the silence is deafening, and so many are out of work. What needs to happen right now is New Yorkers and New York artists doing what they did in front of audiences again and being paid for it, director Zack Winokur said.
His 2019 musical tribute to poet Langston Hughes caught the eye of producer Scott Rudin, who is teaming up with De Niro s business partner, Jane Rosenthal, for this effort.
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