State fears spread of COVID variant from U.K. NEW YORK: Six hospitals, state lab are testing for more-transmissible COVID-19 strain seen in the UK.
By JOE MAHONEY
CNHI News Service Dec 22, 2020
Dec 22, 2020
ALBANY â State officials are so concerned that a variant strain of the COVID-19 contagion has already made its way to New York that they have enlisted several medical centers and a laboratory to begin testing for it.
Wadsworth Laboratory, a state Department of Health facility, has already begun to research the mutated variation of the virus that has spread through the United Kingdom. But after thousands of testing samples were analyzed in New York it has not yet been documented, officials said.
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Tier One Bassett Employees Get COVID Vaccines
The long anticipated Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived at Arnot Ogden Hospital in Elmira and over the weekend, about 350 tier one Bassett Healthcare Network employees went there to receive their vaccine according to AllOTSEGO. Bassett Healthcare Network was allotted a certain number of vaccines for their employees.
Bassett spokeswoman Karen Huxtable-Hooker says, “We are hoping to get the Moderna vaccine shipped directly to Bassett before Christmas and be able to vaccinate more employees in the NYSDOH defined Tier One group.
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According to Bassett, a vaccine works by teaching our immune systems how to recognize and fight off a virus if we ever truly encounter it. Bassett officials explain that the coronavirus vaccine will most likely not be available to the general public for several month. Currently, in Tier one distribution of the vaccine, only those most at risk of contracting the virus