Conifer Park addiction rehab facility becomes COVID hotspot | The Daily Gazette
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GLENVILLE An inpatient addiction treatment facility on Glendridge Road is seeing a profusion of COVID-19 infections on-site.
Schenectady County health officials and state regulators both say they are working with Conifer Park to ease the situation there.
Schenectady County is aware of 19 confirmed positive tests in the last 30 days but said there may be more Conifer Park draws patients from far beyond Schenectady County but only patients who report living at Conifer Park or some other Schenectady County address, or who work there, are included among the 19 positives.
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The New York State Attorney General’s Office is among those asking the Rensselaer County Board pf Elections to provide additional early voting sites in the City of Troy.
On April 9, the New York Civil Liberties Union wrote for the fourth time to the Rensselaer County Board of Elections asking officials to expand early voting in the Collar City.
Perry Grossman is the Senior Staff Attorney with the Voting Rights Project at the NYCLU.
“New York voting law requires providing equitable access to early voting and the existing sites have not provided equitable access. So hopefully with additional sites provided here and the data to show why it would be an improvement, the Board of Elections can finally settle on a better and more equitable early voting plan,” said Grossman.
Schenectady County sees eight overdoses in 24 hours, police say; Adulterated cocaine likely source | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY – The Schenectady Police Department issued an extraordinary appeal for drug users to seek help and treatment Wednesday evening after eight overdoses occurred in Schenectady County in the last 24 hours.
None of the Schenectady overdoses are believed to have been fatal, but Rotterdam police later Wednesday reported two overdoses at the same location in the town and one of those was fatal.
At the Schenectady overdoses, Schenectady police or firefighters administered the Narcan overdose reversal agent in several instances in rapid succession Tuesday night in the Central State Street neighborhood, according to information obtained at the scenes. All the victims were taken to hospitals.
The lost: Capital Region lives ended by COVID-19
The pandemic has upended the nation, but its truest cost is felt by friends and families
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558.
That s the minimum count of how many people, as of this writing, have succumbed to COVID-19 in the greater Capital Region.
In less than 10 months.
That is a wartime number a casualty list perhaps more in keeping with the recounting of Civil War regimental losses than of anything understood in the modern era.
Scientists who study the way the human brain processes big numbers say we’re not very good at it. The larger the number, the less we re likely to feel a strong emotional response to it.