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There was likely a lot of honking in front of this Hyde Park Boulevard home back in early April.
JAMES NEISS JamesNeiss.comThose
Typically St. Patrickâs Day is a time of celebration â particularly in Niagara Falls where March 17 marks the day the city was incorporated.
There was no celebrating in the Falls or the rest of Niagara County in 2020.
This year, the date marked the first recorded case of COVID-19 in Niagara County
The case involved a 42-year-old woman who was hospitalized at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center. It, and the many cases that followed changed virtually every aspect of our lives. It also introduced us to new concepts like social distancing and drive-by celebrations.
NIAGARA COUNTY: Public Health Director Daniel Stapleton has been immersed in pandemic.
By Benjamin Joe ben.joe@lockportjournal.com Dec 12, 2020
Daniel Stapleton
A lot of people this year have had difficulties processing all the anxious feelings tied to the presence of COVID-19 in their lives.Â
Imagine being the director of public health in a community where your full-time job involves at least daily, and often hourly, updates on new infections and other virus-related numbers and information.Â
Such has been the working life of Niagara County Public Health Director Daniel Stapleton who admits, at various times throughout the most trying of his career, to feeling as though he was eating, drinking and sleeping all things COVID-19. Â