Kathy Hochul stepped into her role the app’s cost increased dramatically. Kathy Hochul came into office following the resignation of disgraced ex-Gov. “What seems to be happening is a bonafide crisis opened the door to spending a lot of money off the radar without the usual checks and balances, without the usual oversight of the comptroller.”Ĭosts for the Excelsior app grew after state officials outsourced much of its development, which they say will allow the platform to serve purposes beyond showing vaccinations, though concrete plans for future applications have yet to be announced.Ĭreating a safe database for New Yorkers’ private information was not easy, with the total price tag increasing to $27 million by August 2021 when Gov. “The original idea was definitely worth exploring,” Bill Hammond, senior fellow for health policy at the Empire Center for Public Policy, said. The Excelsior App was supposed to cost New York a mere $2.5 million when it debuted in the spring of 2021 as a way for New Yorkers to show their COVID-19 vaccinations as the state lifted pandemic restrictions on restaurants and live event venues.īut costs since then have ballooned to $64 million, the Albany Times Union reported Sunday. Uncle Sam needn’t default, royal pains’ Ziegfeld folly and other commentaryĪLBANY – The pandemic may be officially over but New York is still paying an eye-raising fee of $200,000 per month to maintain a state vaccine passport that nobody uses. New York to drop COVID vaccine requirement for health care workers after SeptemberĪndrew Cuomo has no regrets in handling COVID crisis, denies sex harassment claims What is long COVID? 12 defining symptoms revealed
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