Timeline for a pandemic disaster
Coronavirus | New York planted the seeds for its COVID-19 crisis among the elderly years ago
by D. Joy Riley
Posted 6/12/20, 03:37 pm
Jan. 1, 2011
Andrew Cuomo assumes office as governor of New York
May 4, 2014
Howard Zucker, M.D., J.D., LL.M., becomes acting commissioner of health in New York
Zucker became a physician at the young age of 22. Before joining the New York State Department of Health, he was both a professor of clinical anesthesiology (Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University) and an adjunct professor of law (Georgetown University Law School).