Thanks to numerous partnerships Capital Region BOCES maintains with area healthcare facilities, adult nursing students are taking part in clinical hours and joining the fight against COVID. More than 130 full- and part-time students in the BOCES program recently started their clinical hours at St. Peterâs Hospital, Van Rensselaer Manor, Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center and Baptist Health Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
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Dec 21, 2020
Staff members and residents at nursing homes statewide are starting to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
The initial doses of the Pfizer vaccine are going out today at Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Colonie.
Albany County Executive Dan McCoy visited the site this morning and says the vaccine delivery was warmly received.
Each person who chooses to get vaccinated will receive two doses over a three week period.
It will likely be a few months before the vaccine is made available to all of the general public.
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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
Dec 21, 2020
Staff members and residents at nursing homes statewide are starting to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
The initial doses of the Pfizer vaccine are going out today at Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Colonie.
Albany County Executive Dan McCoy visited the site this morning and says the vaccine delivery was warmly received.
Each person who chooses to get vaccinated will receive two doses over a three week period.
It will likely be a few months before the vaccine is made available to all of the general public.
Albany County hits 180 COVID-19 deaths, but hospitalizations drop
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Albany County Executive Dan McCoy adjusts his face mask during a Albany County coronavirus briefing on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, at the county office building in Albany, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times Union
ALBANY The county reported two more deaths caused by COVID-19 Sunday - marking 12 Albany County residents who have died after contracting coronavirus in the past week.
Both deaths reported from overnight Saturday were women, one in her 50s and the other in her 70s bringing the county’s total death toll since the pandemic began to 180.