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Coronavirus cases double at Saratoga Springs nursing home
Since start of 2021, cases at Wesley Health Care Center have more than doubled
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A wire photo showing an outside visit at a nursing home in the U.S. Since the beginning of the year, cases of COVID-19 at Wesley Health Care Center have more than doubled. (Associated Press archive photo )Chris Ehrmann
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Since the beginning of the year, cases of COVID-19 at Wesley Health Care Center have more than doubled.
On Dec. 31, the total number of cases at the nursing home and residential rehabilitation center was 34. On Monday, the resident caseload stood at 72 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The spokesman for Wesley said that those who tested positive have been isolated on a designated floor.
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Hope in the form of a vaccine came in December. Nurse Michaele Dobson, right, administers the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to nurse Laura Hooker, of Wilmington, at the Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake on Dec. 23. (News photo Elizabeth Izzo)
SARANAC LAKE Adirondack Medical Center was highlighted on Monday, Jan. 4 as one of the highest-performing hospitals in the state for distributing vaccines. Less than two weeks after the hospital received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines on Dec. 23, about 87% of its vaccine allotment has been administered, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. No one will say how many vials of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been delivered to AMC or its parent organization, the Saranac Lake-based Adirondack Health. As part of New York’s distribution plan, the state required health care facilities to sign a memorandum of understanding that restricts representatives of those facilities from disclosing ma