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People who have not received a COVID-19 vaccine will be seated separately from those who have in two major baseball stadiums in\u00a0New York<\/a>, officials announced this week. The segregation will be enforced at\u00a0Fans at Citi Field and Yankee Stadium, home to Major League Baseball\u2019s New York Mets and New York Yankees.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are going to be separate sections for those who are vaccinated,\u201d Randy Levine, president of the Yankees, told a May 5 briefing he joined with New York Gov.\u00a0Andrew Cuomo<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we sell tickets on an individual basis, they will go into one of those two areas, either unvaccinated or vaccinated because we will have some inventory in both types of location,\u201d added Sandy Alderson, the president of the Mets.<\/p>\n The details of how the new policy will be enforced are still being developed.<\/p>\n Sections with people who are vaccinated against\u00a0the\u00a0CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus<\/a>, which causes COVID-19, can be full, with no capacity restrictions. But in sections with unvaccinated people, fans will need to be spaced apart six feet. All fans, regardless of their status, must wear a mask, even though the games are played outdoors.<\/p>\n \u201cFor baseball reopening, May 19th. Two different categories. Not Yankees\/Mets. Vaccinated\/Unvaccinated,\u201d Cuomo, a Democrat who has refused calls to resign over sexual assault allegations and his administration hiding the number of elderly New Yorkers who died from COVID-19, told the briefing.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to thank the Mets and the Yankees from the bottom of my heart. It\u2019s a pain in the neck for them to operate this vaccinated and unvaccinated. The gentlemen who run the stadiums are here. It\u2019s not easy to do this. Nobody\u2019s done this before. Nobody\u2019s done any of this before, let\u2019s be honest,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Cuomo insisted the new plan is legal.<\/p>\n Fans will be able to use the Excelsior Pass, an application, to show proof of vaccination when entering one of the stadiums, or proof of a negative COVID-19 test. The app was developed by IBM in partnership with the state. It was tested earlier this year at NBA and NHL games before\u00a0being rolled out officially in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Yankees reported 10,850 fans at their stadium on Tuesday night. That\u2019s the most they can have under current restrictions. In a bid to get more New Yorkers vaccinated, the teams are offering people who get a shot at a stadium a free ticket.<\/p>\n \u201cBasically you come to the game \u2026 you take a vaccine shot, you get a voucher, you can go to that game. If that game\u2019s sold out, you can go tomorrow night and go to a game of your choice,\u201d Levine said. Officials at Citi Field said approximately 2,000 people are getting vaccinated there each day.<\/p>\n Also at the briefing, Dr. Howard Zucker, the state\u2019s health commissioner, refused to comment on a report that said Cuomo\u2019s senior aides delayed the release of an audit on nursing home deaths for months.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is an ongoing investigation, so I won\u2019t answer any questions at this point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Cuomo called the pressure on state officials regarding the shielding of death numbers political. The shielding is being probed by the Department of Justice. He also denied that his administration withheld the numbers because of fear the data would be used against them. One of Cuomo\u2019s top aides, Melissa DeRosa, said as much\u00a0in a conference call<\/a>\u00a0with state Democratic lawmakers earlier this year.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/yankee-fans-1200x800.jpg?itok=hfwFG07v\")