Governor Takes Shot at H+H, Others Over Lagging Rates of Vaccination

Governor Cuomo has threatened the city hospital system, as well large hospitals in Nassau and Westchester counties, with fines of $100,000 and the loss of access to future deliveries of the coronavirus vaccine because of their lagging far behind other state facilities in administering the vaccine.

He turned up the pressure on New York City Health+Hospitals, as well as Nassau University Medical Center, after contending they had administered just 31 percent and 19 percent, respectively, of the supplies of the vaccine which the state had provided to them. Even the figure of 34 percent that NUMC told Newsday was its actual total fell far short of other facilities around the state, led by New York Presbyterian, which had administered 99 percent of the supply it received.