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NY State Getting Coronavirus Vaccine To Colleges

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Kevin P. Coughlin/Office of Gove

New York State is making an effort to get the coronavirus vaccine to younger people.

The state is now setting aside 35 thousand vaccine doses to be delivered to colleges across the state. Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker says the goal is to get shots in student arms before they finish up the semester and leave campus.

“You can bring this virus home to others in your family or to those in your community. The race between the vaccine and the variants is very real and is intensifying.”

Governor Cuomo notes the coronavirus positivity rate among young adults has risen. He says getting the vaccine to college students is part of the plan to reach herd immunity.

Meanwhile, more students are heading back to the classroom in New York City. The deadline for the last opt in period of the school year was Friday. Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter says more than 50 thousand students will go from all remote to in person learning starting April 26th
“As we bring more students in, we hope to get as many of them five days a week but without interrupting the current schedules that exist for students today.”

Roughly two thirds of New York City’s one million public school students are still learning from home full time. The city is in the process of moving students at the elementary level from six feet apart to three feet apart, per new CDC coronavirus guidelines.