#Quit the excuses — and get New Yorkers vaccinated

#Quit the excuses — and get New Yorkers vaccinated

“#Quit the excuses — and get New Yorkers vaccinated” Amid their bungling of the vaccine rollout, Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio are proving great at two other things: making excuses — and passing the buck. “This was a much more aggressive undertaking than anyone thought,” Cuomo whined Monday. The nation “was not prepared.” Huh?…

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#Over 500 journalists died from COVID-19 in 2020: report

#Over 500 journalists died from COVID-19 in 2020: report

“#Over 500 journalists died from COVID-19 in 2020: report” COVID-19 claimed the lives of over 500 journalists in 2020, according to the Save Journalism Project. The tragedy hit home for the New York Post when beloved sports photographer Anthony Causi died in April after battling COVID-19, leaving behind a wife and a young son and…

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#Letters to the editor — Jan. 5, 2021

#Letters to the editor — Jan. 5, 2021

“#Letters to the editor — Jan. 5, 2021” The Issue: New York’s slow and mishandled distribution of the coronavirus vaccine. I have been a practicing pharmacist, licensed in four states, since 1974 (“Throwing away our shot,” Jan. 2). For the majority of this time, pharmacists have been the No. 1 trusted profession. I am proud…

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#Close schools if NYC hits 9 percent infection rate

#Close schools if NYC hits 9 percent infection rate

“#Close schools if NYC hits 9 percent infection rate” The teachers’ union on Monday said that all schools should close if the city hits a 9 percent coronavirus infection rate per state calculations. That demand could be complicated, however, by the fact that the city and state governments each calculate the citywide COVID-19 infection rates…

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#Highly contagious UK variant of COVID-19 found in NY

#Highly contagious UK variant of COVID-19 found in NY

“#Highly contagious UK variant of COVID-19 found in NY” The highly-contagious UK variant of the coronavirus has been detected in Saratoga Springs, marking the first known case in New York State, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday. A 60-year-old man recently tested positive for the mutated COVID-19 strain, and is recovering, Cuomo said during an afternoon…

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#Team Cuomo’s latest nursing-home hypocrisy

#Team Cuomo’s latest nursing-home hypocrisy

“#Team Cuomo’s latest nursing-home hypocrisy” How rich: The state is fining nursing homes for missing deadlines to report data — by as little as a minute — while it has withheld its own figures on nursing-home COVID deaths for months. As The Post reported last week, nursing homes have been fined $2,000 a day for missing…

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