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Hochul taps new NY health chief to replace embattled Zucker
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York City Health Commissioner Mary Bassett will become the top health official in the state as it seeks to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that Bassett will replace outgoing state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, a key figure in former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pandemic response.…
Facing deadline, more NY healthcare workers vaccinate
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Thousands of healthcare workers in New York faced with either getting the COVID-19 vaccine or losing their jobs received at least one dose as the statewide mandate neared. More than 650,000 workers at hospitals and nursing homes in the state had until Monday to get their first vaccine dose under the…
AP-NORC poll: Virus fears linger for vaccinated older adults
NEW YORK (AP) — A new survey finds that vaccinated older adults are far more worried about COVID-19 than the unvaccinated are. And those vaccinated older adults are far likelier to take precautions despite the protection afforded by their shots. The survey comes Wednesday from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The survey…
Lindsay Lohan’s mom Dina pleads guilty to drunken driving
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Actor Lindsay Lohan’s mother has pleaded guilty to drunken driving. Dina Lohan is expected to be sentenced to 18 days in jail and five years’ probation for rear-ending another car on Long Island and leaving the scene. Authorities say Lohan was driving with a suspended license on Jan. 11, 2020, when…
Hurricane Sam bringing a rough surf weekend to US East Coast
MIAMI (AP) — It’s going to be a rough weekend in the water for beachgoers along the U.S. east coast. The National Hurricane Center predicts life-threatening surf and rip currents as Hurricane Sam turns northward. Forecasters expect the Category 4 hurricane to remain at sea, but with top winds of 130 mph, it’s already sending…
Gabby Petito’s family announce creation of a foundation to help find other missing people
(AP) — The family of slain traveler Gabby Petito is imploring the public and news media to put the same energy into helping find other missing people as they did their relative, a 22-year-old woman who vanished on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend. Petito’s parents and stepparents spoke at a news conference in Bohemia,…
Scheduling your Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot
East Farmingdale, NY- Signing up for a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot in New York State, will look a lot like it did the first time. The New York State ‘am I eligible‘ website is taking appointments in addition to first dose appointments. Pfizer COVID-19 boosters are also available at major pharmacies like CVS, Walgreens and…
Federal judges: NYC can impose vaccine mandate on teachers
NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for teachers who don’t want New York City schools to impose a vaccine mandate for them and other workers say they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. They announced their intentions late Monday just after a federal appeals panel gave the green light for New York City to…
Vaccination deadline arrives for NY healthcare workers
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Some hospitals and nursing homes in New York began removing workers Monday for failing to meet a state-mandated deadline to get a COVID-19 vaccine as Gov. Kathy Hochul pleaded with holdouts to get 11th-hour inoculations. It was not clear Monday if a wave of suspensions and terminations of healthcare workers who…
NYC to hire forecaster, beef up warnings after Ida flooding
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is planning to hire a private weather forecaster, install more drainage features and issue earlier and more aggressive warnings to residents under a new plan to respond to heavy rainfall like the deadly deluge Hurricane Ida dropped on the city earlier this month. Officials reported 13 people died…
Long Island’s 2 counties grapple with high auto fatalities
MELVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Long Island’s two counties are among the tops in New York state for auto fatalities, and officials and safety advocates say increased enforcement can’t be the only solution. Newsday reports data from the Albany-based Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research show Suffolk County led the state with 113 people killed…
Pfizer says they’ll be submitting COVID-19 vaccine data on kids ages 5-11 to the FDA in days, not weeks
WASHINGTON — Pfizer’s CEO says “it’s a question of days, not weeks” before the company and German partner BioNTech submit data to U.S. regulators for federal authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine for children age 5 to 11. That would be an important step toward starting vaccinations for those youngsters, especially with kids now back in…