{"id":45512,"date":"2021-01-04T15:46:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=45512"},"modified":"2021-01-04T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:50:45","slug":"new-yorks-governor-godfather-gives-the-order-hospitals-will-be-fined-if-they-dont-vaccinate-at-maximum-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=45512","title":{"rendered":"New York&#8217;s &#8220;Governor Godfather&#8221; Gives the Order: Hospitals will be FINED if they don\u2019t vaccinate using all vaccines within the allotted time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>NY gov Cuomo threatens hospitals with FINES if they don\u2019t vaccinate at maximum capacity<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45513\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/5ff3696185f5405abf46a81e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/5ff3696185f5405abf46a81e.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/5ff3696185f5405abf46a81e-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals that don\u2019t use up their supply of Covid-19 vaccines within a week of receiving them will be punished with hefty fines and barred from receiving further doses, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>The governor warned hospitals that fail to deploy their vaccine stocks within a week of receiving them that they will not only be fined up to $100,000 but also be cut out of future vaccine distribution. He has repeatedly criticized the rollout of the jab as too slow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1346154040535736320&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F511521-cuomo-warns-hospitals-vaccines-fine%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1346154040535736320\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201c<em>I don\u2019t want the vaccine in a fridge or a freezer, I want it in somebody\u2019s arm<\/em>,\u201d he said during a Monday press conference. \u201c<em>They have to move the vaccine, and they have to move the vaccine faster<\/em>.\u201d Hospitals received a letter on Sunday echoing the governor\u2019s threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI<em>f you\u2019re not performing this function, it does raise questions about the operating efficiency of the hospital<\/em>,\u201d Cuomo warned, hinting at further budget cuts for an industry already deep in the red due to the cancellation of elective surgical procedures and other lucrative revenue streams during the lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>However, critics have pointed out that Cuomo has only himself to blame for the less-than-stellar \u201c<em>operating efficiency<\/em>\u201d of many state hospitals. The governor has slashed the state healthcare budget dramatically since taking office in 2011, even moving forward with deep cuts to Medicaid this year despite the pandemic. The state has lost over 20,000 hospital beds in the last 20 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The governor has also threatened anyone who attempts to \u2018jump the line\u2019 and receive an early vaccine with a $1 million fine. He volunteered to wait until black and Hispanic New Yorkers receive their shots before getting his, while observing nonwhite New Yorkers died at a much higher rate than white people.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 300,000 vaccine doses have been administered in New York. Elderly care home residents and frontline workers are the first groups to receive the jab. The state hopes to have 85 percent of care home residents vaccinated by the end of the week in what seems to be an effort by Cuomo to compensate for his abysmal handling of the nursing home situation in the early months of the pandemic. Thanks to an executive order that forced nursing homes to admit coronavirus-infected patients, tens of thousands of New York\u2019s elderly died with Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/511521-cuomo-warns-hospitals-vaccines-fine\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/511521-cuomo-warns-hospitals-vaccines-fine\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY gov Cuomo threatens hospitals with FINES if they don\u2019t vaccinate at maximum capacity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}