The Wellsville Daily Reporter
Hundreds of nursing homes across New York state that are struggling to vaccinate workers remain at heightened risk of COVID-19 outbreaks, despite recent declines in coronavirus infections.
About 250 nursing homes are lagging the state’s COVID-19 vaccination rate for long-term care workers, according to a USA TODAY Network analysis of state data. Overall, 62% of nursing home staff statewide have been at least partially vaccinated in New York.
While 85% of New York’s nursing home residents have been partially or fully vaccinated, the likelihood of future outbreaks is higher in facilities where fewer workers choose to get shots. It also increases the odds of breakthrough infections among vaccinated people, which are exceedingly rare.
Summerlin, the suburb of west Las Vegas creeping ever closer to the mountains, looks to be crowded with fully paved streets, streetlights, block walls, and blue top lots. With lumber, labor, and other materials in short supply, home construction can’t keep up.
However, Ali Wolf, chief economist with Zonda, quoted by CNBC, claims, “The lot supply shortage is real, and it is causing prices to rise and builders to move further into the suburbs.”
Diana Olick writes, “The surge in lumber prices in the past year has added $35,872 to the price of an average new single-family home and $12,966 to the market value of an average new multi family home, according to the NAHB.”
Tax Day 2021: Here’s what happens if you file your taxes late
Updated May 18, 2021;
Posted May 17, 2021
If you pay taxes late, the IRS may charge interest on what you owe until the balance is paid in full, as well as impose penalties. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)AP
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The IRS extended the deadline for paying 2020 taxes from April 15 but after the extended May 17 deadline, it will be business as usual: Late filings or payments could result in penalties and/or interest. Here’s what to expect if you’re running behind, and what you can do to mitigate the damage.