State-run mass vaccination site to open in Orange County
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Mar 08, 2021, 10:17pm EST
In just a few weeks, SUNY Orange in Middletown will be bustling with people who are waiting for a shot at getting their lives back to normal.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that 10 additional state-run mass vaccination sites will open in the coming weeks, including at the campus.
The mass vaccination site that will sit there permanently could give up to 5,000 jabs in the arm a day. It s emotional for people, we re vaccinating people that ve lost husbands, lost moms, lost kids, so when they get in there, they feel like they have been liberated, says Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus.
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Five people apply for vacancy on the Chester Town Board
Chester. The vacancy was created when Councilman Orlando Perez resigned so that his wife could take a position in the town clerk’s office. | 17 Feb 2021 | 02:16
Five letters were received by the town of Chester applying for Orlando Perez’s vacant position on the town board.
Perez resigned so that his wife could take a position in the town clerk’s office.
The rules of the town would not allow her to be hired while he sat on the board.
The candidates
Dr. Antonio Ardisana served as a dental consultant with New York City and the Orange County Medical Examiner as forensic odontologist. He was a New York State trooper surgeon and served on New York State Navy Militia.
Hospitals were braced in the fall for a predicted third wave of COVID-19, and the wave arrived on schedule, around Thanksgiving.
The good news: Data show the new case trend is now downward, both in our region and nationally.
After relatively quiet months and a slow early-fall upswing, the pandemic curve started heading north again in November.
“It went up like crazy,” said Steven Kelley, CEO of Ellenville Regional Community Hospital.
That surge continued through January.
“Now, it’s finally starting to come down again,” Kelley said.
Reaching capacity
Nationally, more than 200 hospitals reported being at or above their total occupancy capacity, based on seven-day rolling averages, for the week starting Feb. 5, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data obtained by USA Today. Only two New York hospitals, one in the Bronx and one on Long Island, fell into that category.
KINGSTON – Health care providers, local leaders and pharmacists are scrambling to acquire scarce coronavirus vaccines, as the public bombards them with requests and state leaders keep expanding eligibility.
Some local governments across New York, particularly counties, have set up local vaccination sites for the general public, and vaccines are trickling into a handful of local providers such as hospitals.
But as of Wednesday, Orange County’s government had just 200 doses and Sullivan County’s government had none, while Ulster County officials said they were on pace to expend their 1,200 doses some time on Friday. And they did not know when they might receive a new shipment of vaccines.
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