New York State Team
New York had been on pace to spend about $1 billion on the historic effort to vaccinate its population against COVID-19, but slowing demand has led the state to pursue a shift in its strategy in recent weeks.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week urged local officials to shutter larger COVID-19 vaccination centers that have all but turned into ghost towns after months of churning out millions of doses to New Yorkers.
“We don t have enough people coming into vaccination centers to justify having the centers open right now,” Cuomo said during a media briefing Monday.
“We have centers open all day and two, three, four people show up,” he added.
Governor Cuomo announced that Sampson Veterans Memorial Cemetery, located at the site of the former Sampson Naval Training Station and Sampson Air Force Base in Romulus, Seneca County, has been chosen by a State-appointed committee as the site of New York's first State Veterans Cemetery.