New York Governor Andrew Cuomo lifted COVID restrictions in the state s orange and yellow zone micro-clusters. A few yellow zones remain in the Bronx, Washington Heights, Queens, a
Before they installed the sprayers in all six ambulances, they would use a handheld sprayer. It was snails-pace technology. It was cumbersome because we didn t carry it on the ambulances, someone had to be called, had to respond to the hospital, spray down the truck and then get it back in service so that would be about a 30 minutes out of service time, Rosen said.
Thanks to the cleaning system, the turnaround time between dropping off a patient at the hospital and getting back into service has dramatically dropped.
While the push is on to get more of the COVID-19 vaccine, there is some hope on the horizon as both Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca are nearing the end of their vaccine trials.
What Biden administration s vaccine supply boost means for Tri-State
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NEW YORK (WABC) As President Joe Biden announced new steps to boost vaccine supply across the country, some Tri-State leaders say it s still not enough.
Biden announced the surge in deliveries to states Tuesday, along with the news that the federal government is purchasing an additional 100 million doses each of the two approved coronavirus vaccines. With existing purchases, the White House expects to be able to deliver enough of the two-dose regimens to states to vaccinate 300 million people.
If those figures hold, New York state will see its weekly allotment of first doses increase to about 290,000. New Jersey would receive about 116,000 every week and Connecticut s weekly allotment will increase to about 54,400 doses.
With the state s positivity rate being just over 10%, second doses become that much more important.
Health care workers who received their first dose 28 days ago are now getting their second dose as scheduled amid concerns of widespread availability in New Jersey.
A vaccine center in Newark at Essex County College, one of the first to be opened, will be administering second doses to those health care workers.
The state has six vaccine mega-sites open the most recent opening Friday in East Rutherford at the Meadowlands.
However, there are more people eligible to be vaccinated than there are available vaccines.
Toni Yates reports on the couple offering good to those in need during the pandemic.
The soup kitchen, supported by Franciscan Charities, would feed hundreds of families in the dining hall until COVID forced the space to shut down - but it did not stop the outreach. It s changed in a dramatic way in that now there are more working poor, people who have lost their jobs, who have not been unemployed before but are now either unemployed or underemployed, Miller said.
Volunteers continue to show up because they could not leave their clients hungry. The chef kept cooking and meals were handed out outside - with precautions in place.