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COVID-19: Here's How To Determine Vaccine Eligibility, Schedule Appointments COVID-19: Here's How To Determine Vaccine Eligibility, Schedule Appointments
Covid-19: Here's How To Determine Vaccine Eligibility, Schedule Appointments New York is ramping up its rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine as more allocations of doses are expected to be distributed when President-elect Joe Biden takes office next week. This week, the state began opening up its mass vaccination sites to eligible New Yorkers, though due to the limited doses, some appointments are being scheduled weeks in advance. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that the federal government is currently providing approximately 300,000 doses of the vaccine each week, though there are currently more than seven million New Yorkers eligible to receive it. At the current rate…

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COVID-19: NY Implements 'Surge & Flex' Hospital Protocol COVID-19: NY Implements 'Surge & Flex' Hospital Protocol
Covid-19: NY Implements 'Surge & Flex' Hospital Protocol New York hospitals are taking emergency steps to ensure that neither the public nor private hospital systems get overwhelmed as the state continues to see a spike in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this week that the state’s Department of Health has instructed hospitals to implement the “surge and flex” plan, which includes the expansion of bed capacity by 25 percent and preparing to balance the potential load of patients within hospital systems. According to Cuomo, the state has 54,000 hospital beds, and if they increase capacity to the max, can reach 75,000…

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