Gov. Kathy Hochul, left, is joined by Health Commissioner Dr. Marry T. Bassett for a March 2022 COVID briefing at the David Axelrod Institute in Albany. Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at a COVID-19 briefing ...
New York is pulling the plug on the app used to prove COVID-19 vaccination and test results, as health officials are poised to shift focus to rolling out booster shots this fall. On July 28, the COVID ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul holds a COVID-19 briefing in October 2021. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo pitched the Excelsior Pass app in March 2021 as a key to reopening New York's economy amid the pandemic. Nine months ...
ALBANY – New York’s Excelsior Pass Plus, the digital COVID-19 passport that displayed vaccination status on your phone and later became a target of critics for its ballooning cost, is going away. The ...
New Yorkers will soon have to bid adieu to one of the last remaining vestiges of the state’s COVID-19 pandemic response regulations – the Excelsior Pass Plus app. Once used as a digital record of a ...
CAPITAL REGION (WRGB) — An app costing taxpayers millions to be made, with more than 11 million users when it launched in March 2021 will be decommissioned by the end of this month. The decision to ...
After pouring a shocking $64 million into the project, New York is quietly shutting down its Excelsior Pass app due to lack of use. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett Millions of New Yorkers recently ...
NEW YORK — A $64 million mobile app used by New Yorkers during the pandemic to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test will be shut down in the coming weeks, according to state officials ...
Battle of the vaccine passports: How NYC’s Covid Safe app compares to New York’s Excelsior Pass Both could serve as prototypes, if vaccine mandates take off across the country. NYC’s vaccine mandate ...