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Cuomo, de Blasio Again Diverge on Covid Plans

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 1/7/21

A flicker of imminent relief for thousands of NYPD and city correction officers in the form of coronavirus vaccinations was rapidly extinguished following yet another apparent miscommunication between Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo. 

Not long after the Mayor said Jan. 6 that the state had “fully approved” a large category of “high-priority” workers, including upward of 25,000 city police officers and some corrections staff, for a first set of shots, the Governor said that only those officers who were also Emergency Medical Technicians were eligible for inoculations. 

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