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Reed wants feds to distribute vaccine

Clymer resident Margaret Shearman has tired from the madness and confusion of attempting to get a COVID-19 vaccine in New York state. As a 67-year-old resident who does not live in a nursing home or an assisted-living facility, her options are limited to visiting a website that is not user friendly to others her age. “It is impossible to get a vaccination,” she wrote in an email. “Looking at the state website for a vaccination site, I was really taken back as how the sites were set up in the state.” She is correct. From Jamestown to Johnson City, just outside Binghamton, there ...

Borrello effort to curb Cuomo’s executive power fails

State Sen. George Borrello’s effort to end Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s emergency powers on Tuesday failed in the state Senate. Senators were debating S.2733, which would reduce the number of signatures candidates must collect for designating petitions by 70% in the 2021 election cycle. Borrello ...

COVID-19 adding to challenges at Red Cross

The American Red Cross typically has a tough time keeping the blood supply strong during the winter months when inclement weather and seasonal illnesses can impact donors. The COVID-19 pandemic adds another challenge in keeping the blood supply strong. The Red Cross is asking healthy individuals to make an appointment to give blood or platelets this month. Every day there are thousands of patients who rely on lifesaving blood donations – people like Leslie Johnson. In 2005, a farming accident left Johnson with broken bones and massive bleeding. In the first 24 hours after the ...

State AG report: NY undercounted COVID deaths in nursing homes

ALBANY (AP) — New York may have undercounted COVID-19 deaths of nursing home residents by as much as 50%, the state's attorney general said in a report released Thursday. Attorney General Letitia James has, for months, been examining discrepancies between the number of deaths being ...

Chautauqua County officially crossed the 100 COVID death mark with the addition of six newly recorded fatalities Thursday. To date, 103 people have died with the virus, according to information provided by the county Health Department. Health officials also noted 102 new COVID cases, which brings to the total to 6,500. According to county data, four of the total deaths involve people between the ages of 40 and 49; three between 50 and 59; eight between 60 and 69; 25 between 70 and 79; 40 between 80 and 89; and 23 over the age of 90. Of the new cases, 18 have come from the Dunkirk ...

Borrello effort to curb Cuomo’s executive power fails

Sen. George Borrello's effort to end Gov. Andrew Cuomo's emergency powers on Tuesday failed in the state Senate. Senators were debating S.2733, which would reduce the number of signatures candidates must collect for designating petitions by 70% in the 2021 election cycle. Borrello offered ...