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Friday, January 22, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 4
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK
LANDMARK SOCIETY SUOZZI, RICE DIRECTOR ELEVATED VOTE TO IMPEACH
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Cuomo, Curran seeking more, getting less
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D O N ’ T H AV E A C O W
Pfizer rejects governor’s request to purchase vaccines directly BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Despite encouraging trends for vaccination distribution on Long Island, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued to say that the process needs to be sped up. Cuomo sent a letter to Pfizer’s chairman and CEO, Albert Bourla, after the state received 50,000 fewer vaccine doses this week than last week. Cuomo asked Bourla if the state could purchase vaccines directly from Pfizer rather than obtaining them from the federal initiative Operation Warp Speed. “It is abundantly clear that these vaccines are the weapons that will finally win the war against COVID-19,” Cuomo said in the letter. “But with hospitalizations and deaths increasing across the country this winter, we are in a footrace with the virus, and we will lose unless we dramatically increase the number of doses getting
to New Yorkers.” Pfizer, in a statement, said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would need to approve for the state to conduct a transaction directly with the company. According to state figures, the Nassau County Department of Health was the best-performing distribution entity on Long Island as of Monday, administering 100 percent of first doses through the first four weeks of vaccinating. Despite encouraging figures, Curran said, there is an immediate need to up the scale of vaccine distribution throughout Nassau County. “We must increase the scale of federal vaccine shipments so we can pick up the pace,” Curran said. “Nassau has the infrastructure in place to administer the vaccine in greater numbers, and we’re investing in the outreach necessary.” Other facilities in the county that Continued on Page 27
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BRYANT LIBRARY LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTION
A milkmaid at the Harbor Hill Dairy attends to cows in an image dating to 1912, posted by the Bryant Library Local History Collection on Instagram to commemorate National Milk Day.
Warner Ave. proposal too big for some locals BY R O S E W E L D ON
four-to-five-story building being too big. The residents made their While residents of Roslyn say they are in favor of a pro- thoughts known at the Village posed mixed-use development of Roslyn’s Board of Trustees on Warner Avenue, many are meeting on Tuesday, conducted concerned with the proposed over Zoom.
Last October, the board passed a change of zone for 281-301 Warner Ave. from commercial to mixed-use. The property currently houses a strip mall of empty storefronts Continued on Page 28
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