… that they knew how important it was to get the COVID shots over the last five years and how life saving they are. When you think about the fact that The state of New York lost nearly 86,000 of our residents to this horrible, horrible illness [COVID-19]. And what stopped those numbers from growing exponentially was the fact that we had very much accessible Covid shots, vaccinations. (17:03–17:13)
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Asserts that nearly 86,000 New York residents died from COVID-19.
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