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With no nationwide plan for distributing coronavirus vaccines, people are scrambling to other states. Some health officials, saying greater immunity is the goal, aren’t standing in the way.
Covid-19: New York to Expand Vaccine Access to People With Chronic Conditions
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N.Y. Will Open Vaccines to People With Certain Health Conditions
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said New York would allow Covid-19 vaccinations beginning Feb. 15 for people with some chronic health conditions that put them at greater risk of death from the virus.
The hospitals have had eight weeks to focus on their staff, and that’s how we achieve the 75 percent. We’re giving them one more week to do the last workers, please go back and appeal to them one more time the people who haven’t taken it. Then what we’re going to do is reallocate the doses that were set aside for the hospital workers. And we will then give that allocation to the local he
Snowbirds and other visitors who typically come to enjoy the state s warm winter weather are joining Arizonans as they roll up their sleeves to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Some year-round Arizonans are frustrated that non-residents are tapping the state s limited supply of doses. But from a public health perspective, it s important to protect everyone who is in the community, health officials say. Plus, the more doses administered overall, the better.
State health officials intent to vaccinate anyone in Arizona has been clear from the start.
Dr. Cara Christ, the state health director, told The Arizona Republic in early December, before the first doses even arrived in the state, that vaccines would be available to residents, snowbirds and visitors alike.