A mass COVID-19 vaccination site is reportedly coming to the Jamestown Community College campus in Olean, Rep. Tom Reed announced Wednesday. The site will provide about 3,500 vaccines to residents of the Southern Tier, including Cattaraugus, Chautauqua and Allegany counties who recently have ...
Chautauqua County ended February with some of its best COVID-19 statistics since the early months of the pandemic. The county Health Department reported 65 new confirmed cases from Friday through Sunday — meaning the month ended with an average of about 28 new cases each day. That’s compared to December and January, where 2,008 cases and 2,882 case were recorded, respectively. Of those confirmed Monday, 32 cases came from the Jamestown zip code, seven in Dunkirk, four in Mayville, three in Fredonia, Frewsburg and Westfield, and two each in Silver Creek, Dewittville and ...
Submitted photo Steele Hall ice arena was transformed into a vaccination station on Saturday at the State University of New York at Fredonia. The venue was a county clinic during the day and served more than 200 residents. Another county clinic will take place Tuesday at Jamestown Community ...
Back in June, when the number of COVID-19 cases were ebbing, state Sen. Rachel May, D-Syracuse, received a letter from a constituent. The woman’s mother had been placed in a nursing home to rehabilitate following surgery. She died three weeks later — not from COVID-19, but from three separate infections that had set in after the surgery. The woman didn’t blame the nursing home staff for her mother’s death. She blamed COVID-19-related isolation and the fact that she was unable to visit her mother to pick up on problems that nursing home staff members may have missed. It’s ...
St. Bonaventure University announced that President Dennis R. DePerro died Monday as a result of complications from COVID-19. He was 62. "Words simply can't convey the level of devastation our campus community feels right now," said Dr. Joseph Zimmer, provost and vice president for Academic ...
Only six people with COVID-19 remain in Chautauqua County hospitals, the health department reported Monday, continuing what has been a significant decline in hospitalizations, active cases and positivity rate. On Monday, the county recorded 65 new cases of the virus from Friday through Sunday. They include 32 in the Jamestown zip code, seven in Dunkirk, four in Mayville, three in Fredonia, Frewsburg and Westfield, and two each in Silver Creek, Dewittville and Lakewood. To date there have been 7,590 confirmed cases, 7,324 recoveries and 137 COVID-related deaths. There were ...
