LAKE PLACID Lake Placid Middle-High School is shifting its students to remote learning again after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19. In a call
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Dr. Elizabeth Buck, right, gets her first of two COVID-19 vaccination shots administered by registered nurse Ashley Gavin at the Saranac Lake Hudson Headwaters Health Network office in the Adirondack Medical Center building on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) As the number of people eligible for vaccination against the coronavirus grows, staff shortages could be a significant hurdle for the North Country region to overcome in its distribution efforts. Dr. Wouter Rietsema, vice president of population health and information services at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh, told reporters during a press conference Tuesday that a lack of qualified staff will be the “number-one rate limiter” for the North Country region as more people become eligible for vaccinations.
Dr. Elizabeth Buck, right, gets her first of two COVID-19 vaccination shots administered by registered nurse Ashley Gavin at the Saranac Lake Hudson Headwaters Health Network office in the Adirondack Medical Center building on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (Photo Aaron Cerbone, Adirondack Daily Enterprise)
Jan 06, 2021
Adirondack Daily Enterprise
As the number of people eligible for vaccination against the coronavirus grows, staff shortages could be a significant hurdle for the North Country region to overcome in its distribution efforts.
Dr. Wouter Rietsema, vice president of population health and information services at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh, told reporters during a press conference Tuesday that a lack of qualified staff will be the “number-one rate limiter” for the North Country region as more people become eligible for vaccinations.
Lake Placid Middle High School (News photo Andy Flynn) LAKE PLACID Lake Placid Middle-High School is shifting its students to remote learning again after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19. In a call to parents on Wednesday, district Superintendent Roger Catania said middle and high school students would attend class remotely on Thursday and Friday while the Essex County Health Department conducts contact tracing. This isn’t the first time a case of COVID-19 has been discovered at Lake Placid Central School District. Since September, the district has seen at least seven cases of COVID-19, according to the state’s COVID-19 Report Card database. Of those, one was a staff member, four were off-site students, and two were on-site students.
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Karen OâConnor, left, an ICU nurse from Chazy, became the first person in the North Country region to be vaccinated Dec. 15, 2020. Administering the vaccine is CVPH Nursing Director Carly Haag, right.
(Provided photo â Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital) The Essex County Health Department’s role in the fight against COVID-19 is expected to shift in the coming weeks. So far, hospitals and pharmacies throughout the North Country have been responsible for receiving and administering vaccines, which have been allocated for health care workers, nursing home residents and first responders as part of the state’s first phase of vaccine distribution. The number of people eligible to receive the vaccine is expected to broaden in the coming weeks. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said the general public could be eligible for vaccines in late January at the earliest, and the county Health Department is preparing to step in when that happens.