ALBANY — The rollout of the Excelsior Pass, a digital app designed to enable someone to confirm they have been vaccinated or tested negative for COVID-19, has been plagued with glitches and left many ...

ALBANY - New York continues to encourage residents to use the Excelsior Pass app to verify COVID-19 vaccination status when attending events. And the push has had some success: It's had more than 1 ...

ALBANY — The popular state app for cellphones used for proving vaccination status for more than 8 million New Yorkers is presenting problems for a small number of people trying to update their status ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Governor Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that New York State’s Excelsior Pass Blueprint will help devise a national framework to provide people across the country with a ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Governor Kathy Hochul announced New York State’s Excelsior Pass Scanner app has been updated to enable the validation of SMART Health Cards from trusted issuers outside of New ...

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New Yorkers will have a new, digital option for proving they're vaccinated against COVID-19. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office says a new app, Excelsior Pass Plus, will be released. They say it works like ...

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 ...

ALBANY – The pandemic may be officially over but New York is still paying an eye-raising fee of $200,000 per month to maintain a state vaccine passport that nobody uses. The Excelsior App was supposed ...

The Excelsior App was always a solution in search of a problem — and a costly solution even at its original $2.5 million price tag. Anyone who got a COVID-19 vaccination received a card they could ...

If Ben Franklin were alive in the computer era, he’d’ve said: “Nothing can be certain, except death and taxes — and the inability of any government to run an IT project on budget and well.” Long after ...