Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that essential workers and high-risk individuals would get priority for a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Cuomo says state will independently review COVID-19 vaccine
Governor Cuomo says the state will set up a review committee to check that any coronavirus vaccine approved by the federal FDA is indeed safe to be injected into people.
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Novel coronavirus vaccine trial underway in Rochester
Phase one of the three-phase trial is testing the vaccine on about 40 people, said Dr. Edward Walsh, the infectious disease physician who’s leading the trial.
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URMC and Rochester Regional to test COVID-19 vaccine
Rochester is one of four sites in the U.S. conducting early-stage clinical trials of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.






