Thirty percent of the health-care workers employed by New York City Health+Hospitals passed on the chance to be inoculated with the coronavirus vaccine, according to Dr. Mitchell Katz, the system's president and CEO.
The disclosure came as Gov. Cuomo warned Jan. 5 that in addition to a troubling uptick in infections, a recent mutation of the virus had popped up in Saratoga County that was 70 percent more contagious and posed a new threat that could be a "game-changer." That strain was first discovered in Britain last month.
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