DECEMBER
Dec . 20 , 2020 : ACIP votes to recommend that adults age 75 and older , as well as frontline essential workers , be next in line to receive the COVID-19 vaccine . Dec . 21 , 2020 : LeadingAge New York issues a letter to Commissioner Zucker urging the State to reconsider its approach to enforcing the HERDS survey submission timeliness requirements and nursing home PPE stockpile requirements . Dec . 21 , 2020 : The first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are administered to residents and staff at New York nursing homes . Dec . 26 , 2020 : DOH issues guidance eliminating furlough exemptions for asymptomatic staff who have been exposed to but do not test positive for COVID-19 and extending the work exclusion period for exposed staff in Enhanced Assisted Living Residences ( EALRs ) and Assisted Living Programs ( ALPs ) to 14 days . Dec . 27 , 2020 : President Trump signs into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act , 2021 , providing an additional $ 3 billion in COVID-19-related health care provider relief . Dec . 27 , 2020 : Governor Cuomo signs EO 202.85 extending the Tenant Safe Harbor Act through Jan . 26 , 2021 . Dec . 28 , 2020 : The Legislature convenes for a special session to approve , and Governor Cuomo signs into law , the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act , extending the moratorium on residential evictions through May 1 , 2021 and preventing foreclosure proceedings , credit discrimination and negative credit reporting related to the COVID-19 emergency .
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