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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. – The app New York State launched to track people’s COVID-19 vaccination status will shut down later this month. New York State launched the Excelsior Pass app back in March of 2021. This ...

Governments and policy-makers need to assess the ramifications of the technological response that was deployed during the Covid-19 pandemic, a report from the Ada Lovelace Institute has concluded.