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NYC Police Commissioner Dermot Shea Tests Positive for COVID

NYC Police Commissioner Dermot Shea Tests Positive for COVID

By Yehudit Garmaise

   New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea has tested positive for coronavirus.

     He is doing well and feeling fine, the NYPD official said. 

    “He is home,” an NYPD spokesperson said. “He is running the department remotely. He is in regular contact with senior staff.”

    The commissioner apparently felt sick over the weekend and quarantined himself, although he tested negative on Monday. On Thursday, Commissioner Shea, who oversees police officers, took another test, which came back positive. 

   The news comes just days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo undermined and overruled Mayor Bill de Blasio’s announcement earlier this week that 25,000 NYPD personnel were eligible to receive their first vaccine doses under revised state guidelines.

    The mayor had planned to vaccinate by Sunday up to 10,000 NYPD, an optimistic goal that was praised by detective and police unions.

    But hours after the mayor’s announcement, Gov. Cuomo insisted NYPD were not yet eligible for the vaccine, and doses had to be reserved for health workers and nursing homes.

   Yesterday in a press conference, Gov. Cuomo explained that the state’s does not currently have enough vaccines to give shots to everyone who is eligible.

   “We don’t have enough vaccines,” said Gov. Cuomo said, who explained that the state currently has 900,000 vaccines for the 2 million healthcare workers in the state. “We don’t even have enough vaccines for half the healthcare workers in New York.”

   The governor said those were the rules, Mayor De Blasio said yesterday.

    "We really think the rules couldn't be clearer," the mayor said.

Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.

 


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