ALBANY – Governor Andrew Cuomo is hot with hospitals that are not doing their fair share of administering the new COVID -19 vaccine. So, he gave them an ultimatum…use them or lose them. Hospitals that fail, could face a $100,000 fine. Cuomo pointed to state Health Department data showing that only about 46% of the vaccine doses sent to New York hospitals have been used to inoculate front-line health care workers. Samaritan Hospital in Troy is at the bottom of the state’s list, with 15% of its supply used so far, followed by A.O. Fox Hospital’s Tri-Town Campus in Sidney, at 18%. The latter hospital is part of the Cooperstown-based Bassett Healthcare Network. “I don’t want the vaccine in a refrigerator,” Cuomo said. “I want it in someone’s arm.”
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