{"id":9995,"date":"2025-07-30T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9995"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:43:41","slug":"the-lessons-new-york-still-has-not-learned-from-the-covid-vaccine-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/30\/the-lessons-new-york-still-has-not-learned-from-the-covid-vaccine-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"The lessons New York still has not learned from the Covid vaccine rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/28\/new-york-city-mayor-race-andrew-cuomo-covid-vaccine-rollout-study\/\">STAT<\/a> As Covid-19 has receded from everyday life, New Yorkers \u2014 and Americans more generally \u2014 haven\u2019t shown much interest in poring over their governments\u2019 pandemic-era performance. In 2024, congressional Republicans released a deeply partisan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/02\/health\/house-covid-subcommittee-report\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Covid-19 report, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Covid-19 report<\/a>, focused on issues like the lab-leak origin theory. But there has been little neutral analysis of real-time policy decisions aimed at truly learning what worked, what didn\u2019t, and what if. The U.K., by contrast, set up a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.public-inquiry.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Covid inquiry, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Covid inquiry<\/a>&nbsp;in June 2022 so that, as a nation, it is better prepared next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the federal government seems unlikely to ever dig into Covid in a substantive way, states can still review their role and what they could have done better. That is particularly true for my home state, New York, whose governor at the time, Andrew Cuomo, is now running for New York City mayor and is still&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/04\/nyregion\/andrew-cuomo-nursing-homes-deaths.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"defending his handling, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defending his handling<\/a>&nbsp;of the state\u2019s pandemic response.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT As Covid-19 has receded from everyday life, New Yorkers \u2014 and Americans more generally \u2014 haven\u2019t shown much interest in poring over their governments\u2019 pandemic-era performance. In 2024, congressional Republicans released a deeply partisan&nbsp;Covid-19 report, focused on issues like the lab-leak origin theory. But there has been little neutral analysis of real-time policy decisions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9996,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions\/9996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}