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File photo: May 2016. State Senator Patty Ritchie speaks to the crowd at the annual NYS Senate Veterans Hall of Fame ceremony.
ALBANY, NY – State Senator Patty Ritchie and Assemblyman Mark Walczyk are calling on the New York State Department of Health to expand vaccine eligibility to commercial truckers entering New York State from our northern border with Canada; a move that will help protect public health and safety, spur economic growth and speed the full reopening of the border.
Earlier this week, Governor Cuomo announced that non-New Yorkers who are tourists are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. In a letter to New York State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker, Ritchie and Walczyk requested clarification regarding whether the expanded eligibility includes commercial truckers entering New York from Canada.
Essay/Sen. Tom O Mara: No, governor, nursing homes tragedy far from ‘smart’”
N.Y. State Senator Tom O Mara
Here was the lead paragraph in a National Review article late last week following Governor Andrew Cuomo’s May 5th news conference: “New York governor Andrew Cuomo defended an executive order that may have exacerbated coronavirus outbreaks in state nursing homes as ‘smart’ from a ‘medical point of view.’”
Smart?
After all these months, when how Governor Cuomo and his inner circle addressed the COVID-19 pandemic in nursing homes has been defined by cover-ups, stonewalling, lies, and the like, and keeping in mind that the Cuomo administration is under federal investigation for its actions, the governor calls it “smart.”
State Sen. George Borrello is strongly urging immediate action by New York State Department of Health Commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, to release guidance that