Gov. Kathy Hochul received her latest COVID-19 vaccine in Hell's Kitchen on Tuesday while avowing to keep New Yorkers protected from the potentially deadly infection even as the federal government seeks to make the inoculation harder to obtain.
Hochul said on Sept. 16 that she would extend a standing executive order that allows New Yorkers to obtain the latest COVID-19 vaccine regardless of health condition. First issued on Sept. 5, the order is an end-around from new restrictions on the vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, now under the direction of Dr. Terry Kennedy and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., both of whom are vaccine skeptics.
"Dr. Terry Kennedy and the FDA, took away the rights of pharmacists