As New York State again expands the list of those eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente is encouraging local residents who can get inoculated to roll up their sleeves and do so.
Those eligible to get the vaccine further opened on Monday to now include first responders, like fire fighters, police officers, investigators, corrections officers and other law enforcement, along with local teachers, public transit employees, and those 75 and older (For a detailed list, see below).
Picente says a POD (Point of Distribution)
is up and running at Mohawk Valley Community College s Jorgensen Center on the Utica campus - open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The county received some 3,000 doses last week and is due to receive another 1,300 on Tuesday, he said. As of this posting, a few appointments remained open for this week, but are filling up quickly.
2020: UConn’s Year in Photos
Looking back on an unforgettable year that many of us would like to forget.
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On some level, this seems like a perverse exercise: who wants to look back on 2020?
A Pandora’s Box of a trip around the sun that brought plague, recession, unrest, and the quadrennial national screaming match of a presidential election, this is not a year that many of us will remember fondly. If we never hear the word “unprecedented” again, it will be too soon.
Here at UConn, we certainly weren’t spared the effects of 2020’s worst features: most consequentially, UConn Health’s frontline workers endured almost unbearable amounts of stress and grief as they confronted firsthand the terrible effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Long after the blue hearts hung in windows have faded and the 7 p.m. salutes with pots and pans are a memory, their sacrifice and perseverance will remain as a testament to their commitme