New Yorkers aren’t rushing to get the updated COVID-19 vaccine ahead of this year’s holiday and respiratory illness season, the state Health Department said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The number of vaccinations in 2025 ahead of Thanksgiving in New York is down nearly 30% compared to the same period in 2024, according to the state DOH. Approximately 850,000 doses have been administered statewide since Aug. 29, compared to about 1.2 million doses last year.<\/p>\n
Doses given to adults 65 and older, whom the department says face the highest risk of severe illness and death from COVID, decreased nearly 25% during the same period, according to department data.<\/p>\n
State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said 2,775 New Yorkers died from COVID-related illnesses last year compared to 766 flu-related deaths; and more than 50,000 New Yorkers were hospitalized related to COVID, compared to over 21,000 related to flu.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“COVID was more serious than flu and I expect will be the same this year as well,” McDonald said in a statement. “Vaccination remains the best protection against serious illness and death from COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most\u00a0vaccinations\u00a0are being administered in pharmacies this year. Children under 3 cannot receive COVID vaccines at pharmacies and should contact a health care provider.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yorkers aren’t rushing to get the updated COVID-19 vaccine ahead of this year’s holiday and respiratory illness…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":356213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[40737,5229,31018,17546,17544,17549,210,17543,405,403,17050,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,13570,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-356212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-app-health","11":"tag-buffalo","12":"tag-capital-region","13":"tag-central-ny","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-hudson-valley","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-state","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newyork","21":"tag-newyorkcity","22":"tag-ny","23":"tag-nyc","24":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115494271708550060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}