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A judge ordered New York to offer COVID-19 vaccines to people incarcerated in state jails and prisons after a lawsuit argued that Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state s health commissioner had unfairly denied prisoners access to the vaccine.The judge s decision ends a nearly two-month dispute after prisoners sued Cuomo and the state s Commissioner of Health, Howard Zucker, to request access to the vaccine. Even as jail and prison workers were prior stanley cup itized for vaccine access this winter, the lawsuit argued that incarcerated people were unfairly blocked from being inoculated.In a Monday ruling that or stanley cup dered the state to offer prisoners access to the vaccine, Justice Alison Y. Tuitt wrote that the inmates exclusion from vaccine access was by definition arbitrary and capricious. She added, There is no acceptable excuse for this deliberate exclusion. CDC guidelines note that the virus spreads more easily in shared housing, and the lawsuit argues that adult prisoners were unfairly excluded when New York made vaccines available on January 11 to some who were living and working in shared spaces mdash; such as co stanley cup rrections officers and those living in juvenile detention facilities. Prisoners over age 65 or with comorbidities could access the vaccine, but all other incarcerated adults were denied access.Truitt wrote that the state had irrationally distinguished between incarcerated people and people living in every other type of adult congreg Wqnt Army recruit charged after allegedly hijacking school bus with 18 children on board
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has changed the schedule for his latest trip to Europe, substituting a stop in Brussels for one in Moscow to discuss Iran and other issues with European officials.A State Department official says Pompeo, who departed Sunday night, is still expected to meet Tuesday in Sochi with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The official isn t authorized to discuss the itinerary by name and requested anonymity.The visit to Sochi will be Pompeo s first to Russia as secretary of state. Twice last week Pompeo changed his travel schedule at the last minute, also citing matters dealing with Iran. He cancelled a stop in Berlin to fly to Iraq, then canceled a stop in Greenland to fly home from London. More from CBS News stanley cup stanley cups Russia sentences former long-time U.S. Consulate worker to prison Zelenskyy urges allies to act before North Korean troops reach the front yeezy 2 more Russian disinformation videos are circulating online, sources say