Mayor de Blasio's daily press conference is underway. Starting with Trump, repeating what he said on Morning Joe.
"He will no longer profit from his relationship with New York City. We will no longer allow it.
Mayor de Blasio also confirms our reporting/Star-Ledger's reporting from last night that the Yankees will offer Yankee Stadium as a jab center.
De Blasio again pressing state/feds/manufacturers for more COVID vaccine doses.
So far: City has gotten 794,000 doses, administered 268k doses.
Blas is spinning this as a positive — but explains massive amounts of parent frustration:
- Only 247 schools have *all* students in five day a week
- 800+ schools have *some* students in five-day a week
City Hall initially made it seem like it would be much more widespread.
And now de Blasio is talking about the decision to nix the G&T test next year. Very, very, very few additional details. Other than 'new approach by September'
This caught by eye. As Mayor de Blasio campaigned for president (remember?), his panel commissioned to rethink G&T recommended with doing away the whole shebang, further outraging a lot of the parent groups already outraged by proposals to scrap the SHSAT.
A chunk of this seems like it's required by the state; and some of this would be required for any eligibility program. That said, the DOH's contractor (Affiliated Physicians) requires you to punch a generic usr/psword just to make an account. Why? — hca-nys.org/wp-content/upl…
The H&H website seems better. Let's take a brief look at how that seems to work. I guess the Comptroller's office is calling each question a step, which... Some of this you have to do every time you go to a doc's office, so.
Now, it says no appointments available. So then it brings up a screen to look for other testing locations(?), which then brings up places to get a swab — which,,,