Patch Survey: Will You Take The Coronavirus Vaccine?

NEW YORK – With 170,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine expected to arrive in New York Dec. 15, a development announced on the day the United Kingdom became the first western nation to clear it for use, Patch wants to know: would you take it?

Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday outlined the largest government operation in generations, one that he said will ultimately end the devastating pandemic.

The state is expected to receive doses of the Pfizer vaccine, as well as another one by Moderna, this month, he said. Frontline health care workers and elderly people in long-term facilities will be the first to receive it, the governor said.

The Pfizer vaccine was approved by the U.K. Wednesday, making it the first western country to start using it.

Cuomo did mention widespread skepticism about the speed that the vaccine was rolled out and about its safety. Questions have also been raised about the role of politics in its development, with the vaccine becoming a hot topic during the presidential campaigns.

But experts predict that it could bring about up to 80 percent immunity to the virus by next summer.

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