Astoria: After a long debate with myself, my doctor and family, I decided I did want to get vaccinated at 20 weeks pregnant. I was excited and nervous and called a small local pharmacy. They had a dose of Johnson & Johnson and said that I could come in an hour.
Huntington, L.I.: Although the world around us sometimes seems like it’s going mad, and when supposed societal leaders, again and again, go from popular to precarious in a nanosecond, we thankfully witnessed the glorious back page of the Daily News last Thursday with a gorgeous full-page black and white picture of Yankee legend Lou Gehrig.
Scotch Plains, N.J.: Video conferencing platforms like Zoom and Google Meet have been the backbone of remote work during the pandemic. Americans have embraced the button-up-and-pajama-pants look when rolling out of bed and going off to work just steps away. And oddly enough, many find that this system works just fine.
County COVID-19 Report
As the 2020 year ended there were a total cases of 1,716 persons in Randolph County who tested positive for the COVID-19 virus according to the county health department s report issued Dec. 31.
On that final December day, there were 80 active cases, 11 persons hospitalized, 1,611 persons had been released from isolation and 25 deaths attributed to the coronavirus the report indicated.
The Wednesday, Jan. 6 COVID-19 report issued by the Randolph County Health Department showed that a total of 1,782 persons in the county had the virus since testing were first documented last March.
This means there has been 66 new cases recorded during the first six days of the year 2021, and there has been one more death.
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