NY Gov. Cuomo to Sign Executive Order Allowing Medical Students to Work as Doctors

A sign is seen at the NYU Langone Health Center hospital emergency room entrance in New York City on March 23, 2020. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

New York’s medical students set to graduate this spring can start practicing medicine now to help with the state’s health care forces, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday.

“I will be signing an Executive Order to allow medical students who were slated to graduate this spring to begin practicing now,” Cuomo wrote on Twitter. “These are extraordinary times and New York needs the help.”