ALBANY (AP) — The deadline for hospital and nursing home workers in New York state to be vaccinated against COVID-19 arrived Monday with the prospect of severe staff shortages fueled by workers getting suspended or fired for refusing to be inoculated. With thousands of workers still thought ...
The Chautauqua County Department of Health reported two new virus-related deaths as well as 193 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend. To date there have been 181 virus-related deaths and 11,794 confirmed cases in the county along with 11,190 recoveries. There are currently 423 active cases, from information collected Friday through Sunday and representing a drop of 43; 35 people with the virus in the hospital, a drop of one from the previous day; and 1,217 people in quarantine, an increase of 25. Of the new cases reported Monday, 65 came from people residing in the Jamestown ...
The county Health Department on Friday reported 88 new cases of COVID-19 along with a bump in active cases, new hospitalizations and people in quarantine. Of the new cases, 40 came from people living in the Jamestown zip code. There were also 12 in Fredonia, eight in Dunkirk and five in Lakewood, among others. There are currently 442 active cases, 34 people with the virus in the hospital and 1,193 people in quarantine. To date there have been 11,077 confirmed cases in Chautauqua County as well as 10,466 recoveries and 169 virus-related deaths.
ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello is part of a lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court challenging the underlying authority of a universal mask mandate for students, teachers and staff in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12, public and private schools, that was imposed by New York state in late ...
A woman has been fined $1,000 by Chautauqua County for violating COVID-19 safety protocols. During the Chautauqua County Board of Health meeting, Douglas Hamernik, a public health sanitarian with the county Environmental Health Services, said an individual had violated the New York state sanitary codes regarding following contact tracer orders of isolation in the Jamestown area. According to Hamernik, the original fine was $2,000 but it was reduced. "Basically, this was an individual that would go to work without wearing a mask and following the contact tracer's instructions not to go ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An influential federal advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected a plan Friday to give Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots to most Americans, but it endorsed the extra shots for those who are 65 or older or run a high risk of severe disease. The twin votes represented a heavy blow ...
