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Cuomo says 80,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine will go to NY nursing homes
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foxnews.comNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday nursing home residents will receive the next 80,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, as the state worries about the health of their population's most vulnerable residents.
So far, Cuomo said around 4,000 of the 87,000 doses of the vaccine the state received from Pfizer and BioNTech have been administered, mostly to health care and frontline workers earlier this week.
But elderly residents of long-term care facilities will likely receive their first doses, which will "arrive in the next days" and be administered by CVS and Walgreen pharmacies starting Monday.
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