Vaccine wait goes on for New Yorkers with health problems
Even as New York has expanded the ranks of healthy people who can get the coronavirus vaccine, it has wrestled with tough decisions about extending eligibility to people with medical conditions that might make them extra vulnerable.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Jan. 12 that New York would accept new federal guidance to expand vaccine access to younger people with certain health problems, including those with weakened immune systems.
The Democrat said state officials were working with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to decide what types of conditions should push someone nearer to the top of the vaccine priority list.