Albany County is reporting a record number of new COVID-19 cases in a 24-hour period. County Executive Dan McCoy on Tuesday announced 351 new cases and two
The early stages of the COVID-19 vaccine roll out have begun in Albany County with Nursing Home Residents beginning to receive the Pfizer vaccine. It's no secret that nursing home residents were some of the hardest-hit here in the state of New York. So it's nice to see the elderly in those same nursing homes get the protection they need to survive this second wave.
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CAPITAL REGION Fulton County’s positive COVID test rate is running second-highest among New York counties and Schenectady County’s is third-highest, state data indicated Monday.
Some have likened the battle against the virus to the carnival game Whack-A-Mole, and so it remains: The incidence decreases in one county or region and spikes up in another.
The Mohawk Valley region, which includes Fulton County, now has the highest positive test rate and the second-highest number of new infections pe -capita among the state’s 10 regions on a seven-day rolling average, which is a better indicator than a single-day statistic.
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COVID-19 vaccines continue to be distributed in New York’s Capital Region, but there s a new threat: a chance that a variant of the coronavirus may already have arrived in the U.S.
COVID-19 vaccine distribution has begun at Albany County-owned nursing home Shaker Place Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, in hopes some residents will be able to receive visits from loved ones within six weeks. County Executive Dan McCoy says 150 of 172 residents have agreed to take the shot. But the fate of the facility s roughly 200 workers is up in the air. For whatever reason, they didn t give us enough vaccine for the workers. And I said that early on, which was alarming. Like I said, we roughly have a 250 bed facility, but we re running at 172. Because obviously, with COVID-19, people aren t going to nursing homes, people are keeping their loved ones at home. So out of that only 150 got a shot so far. And that left, they gave us like 320 vaccines. So that gave us an opportunity to give i