NEW YORK (AP) — Frustrated by the flow of coronavirus vaccine from the federal government, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday floated the idea of buying shots for New Yorkers directly from one of the vaccine makers, Pfizer. The idea seemed far from a sure bet, with the pharmaceutical giant ...

PLATTSBURGH — With the aim of making New York the first COVID-19-free state in the country, a series of vaccination centers opened statewide Monday, including one in Plattsburgh. “That certainly is a goal I support, and this center will go a long way toward making that happen,” ...

POTSDAM — Hundreds of COVID-19 shots were administered at SUNY Potsdam’s Maxcy Hall on Monday morning, only hours after the state opened the facility as one of two mass vaccination sites in the North Country. The site drastically increasing vaccine dispersal to the Phase 1B category ...

Franklin County Public Health reported a spike in COVID-19 cases on Friday. Thirty-nine new cases of COVID-19 were identified between Thursday and Friday. That is abnormally high for this rural county, which has recently reported around 20 new cases each day. The new cases bring the total ...

ALBANY — New York is close to reaching a vital early goal of its coronavirus vaccine campaign: getting a first dose to every nursing home resident, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday. But the effort to protect those residents has unfolded more slowly than some administrators and relatives hoped. ...

Governors bitterly accused the Trump administration Friday of deceiving the states about the amount of COVID-19 vaccine they can expect to receive as they ramp up vaccinations for senior citizens and others. But the government attributed the anger to confusion and misguided expectations on ...