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"I'm directing our state mass vaccination sites to open their doors to the youngest and most recently eligible New Yorkers."

The lower-dose Pfizer vaccine has arrived at health departments and pediatricians’ offices across the region.

"We will be selecting 50 names of children who will be receiving a full ride to a SUNY or CUNY institution."

"I want to empower parents and schools to do the right things first but if we’re not seeing adequate compliance...I will have no choice."

As immunity wanes, more vaccinated people in Pa. are getting sick with the virus.

“Prisons are a hotbed of infectious disease transmission they have been for since they've been designed and utilized."

All of the state’s hospitals are required to have an emergency staffing plan in place to make up for shortages, and the Governor questioned whether those plans were deployed.

The governor estimates that hundreds of hospitals workers have been laid off or suspended for refusing the vaccine.

"These folks here get an ultimatum and a pink slip, and a kick in the butt and sent out the door. It’s wrong.”

About 97% of students enrolled at SUNY schools across New York have complied with the mandate, according to a SUNY spokesperson.