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Hospital staff vaccination rates vary across Capital Region, Mohawk Valley


Hospital staff vaccination rates vary across Capital Region, Mohawk Valley | The Daily Gazette
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By John Cropley/Business Editor |
May 6, 2021
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ALBANY Hospital staff COVID vaccination rates range from 66% to 99% in the Capital Region and Mohawk Valley, underscoring the erratic nature of the population’s willingness to receive the vaccine.
Back in December, New York gave medical care providers top priority and preferred access to the very limited supply of vaccine when it was rolled out for public use.
A second surge of infections and hospitalizations was building to a peak in the state at the time, and the strategy was to immunize care providers first because they simultaneously would be among the most vulnerable to contracting the virus and among the most vital to protect from the virus while caring for a growing number of sick people. ....

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