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Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo will issue an Executive Order allowing the state to redistribute ventilators and personal protective equipment, or PPE, from institutions that don’t currently need them and redeploy the equipment to other hospitals with the highest need. The National Guard will be used to transport the ventilators and PPE across the state. The equipment will be returned ...

New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. (I, D, WF-Sag Harbor) today announced that the 2020-21 enacted State Budget contains $500,000 of funding for the Cleary School for the Deaf, a 4201 school located in Nesconset. The Cleary School has served the deaf community of Long Island since 1925, and provides access to language, communication and learning for students from birth to 21 years of age ...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the State Department of Health has approved Northwell’s protocol allowing BiPAP machines to be converted into ventilators. The State has purchased 3,000 BiPAP machines from Philips in Pittsburgh, and 750 machines are already in stock and will be distributed to hospitals. The State has already taken a number of extraordinary measures ...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced highlights of the FY2021 Enacted Budget, which advances the Governor’s Making Progress Happen agenda. The budget is balanced, includes no new taxes, continues to phase in tax cuts for the middle class, enacts the strongest Paid Sick Leave program in the nation, and advances other progressive priorities including the legalization of gestational surrogacy ...

As we watch the spread of COVID-19 and its toll on families and communities, my 50,000 colleagues across the United States have been asking ourselves a simple question: What can we do? We’ve seen that this pandemic cannot be defeated without shared sacrifices. We know that it requires us to embrace unwanted change both in our personal lives and across the global economy. Yet as we face circumstances that are unfamiliar ...

(WHAM) – An urgent care facility in Webster is teaming up with Rochester Institute of Technology to create face shields for medical personnel. Acute Kids Urgent Care in Webster is a smaller clinic that has been running low on supplies. Since most of the masks and personal protective equipment is going to hospitals that are badly in need of it to protect workers against COVID-19, Acute Kids has been trying to hold out ...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that New York-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is creating 500,000 test kits for the State at no charge amid a nationwide shortage of test kits and swabs. The first batch of test kits was delivered to the State on Monday and the State will receive an ongoing delivery of 25,000 kits per day. Additionally, Corning has donated 100,000 tubes and provided an additional ...

‍The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) today adopted an emergency regulation requiring New York State regulated issuers of life insurance and annuity contracts, property and casualty insurers and premium finance agencies to provide relief to New York consumers and businesses experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19. Consumers experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19 ...

Walmart customers will find in the coming days they can make a purchase, pick up an order and get a delivery with no contact required. To conform with the social distancing recommended to slow the spread of COVID-19, shoppers buying groceries and other items through Walmart Pay will no longer have to tap a screen. Starting in the next week, they can scan a QR code with their phone and pay through the retailer’s ...