Advocates for participants in the 9/11 WTC Health Program hope to convince Governor Cuomo to expedite access to the coronavirus vaccine for the first-responders and civilian survivors who are enrolled in the program and suffer from multiple health conditions that make them far more susceptible.
"We've heard from the experts at the last meeting of the World Trade Center Medical Advisory and Steering Committee the numbers they are seeing during the pandemic prove that WTC first responders and survivors are at a significantly higher risk for COVID complications," said retired Paramedic Gary Smiley, who is District Council 37's Local 2507 WTC ombudsman. "All of the members of our union that we lost to COVID were also WTC responders with significant WTC illnesses."
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