“Continued Federal Reserve Board actions to raise interest rates in response may dampen national and local economic prospects, which, if not carefully managed, risks causing a recession,” says the state’s comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli in his report on the executive budget.

Hospitals across the state have one more week, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday, to vaccinate their workers then that allotment of vaccine doses will be shifted to vaccinate adults of any age with comorbidities. He also said that 94 percent of the people who die from COVID are people with comorbidities or other underlying conditions.