12- to 17-year-old New Yorkers who have yet to get vaccinated for COVID-19 can win a full scholarship to a SUNY or CUNY college beginning today. It’s the latest prize Governor Andrew Cuomo has pulled out of the COVID swag-bag to entice those who haven’t yet gotten the shot. Cuomo says winners will receive a full scholarship to any public college or university, and that includes tuition, room and board…
Winners will be selected in a random drawing each Wednesday, with 10 winners a week over the next five weeks.
COVID-19 by the numbers now, here in Rockland, no new deaths, the total unchanged since last Monday at 957. We’ve got four hospitalized confirmed with coronavirus, and 202 active cases. Our total case count is 46,809, that’s 16 more than Wednesday. And the total number of vaccine doses administered – 212,891 that’s up 1,568 since the last report Tuesday.