Montgomery, Schenectady counties overwhelmed by vaccine-seekers | The Daily Gazette
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FONDA — Montgomery County Executive Matthew Ossenfort gave a ground-level view Thursday of the sputtering COVID vaccination program, with insight into how the chaos is affecting local health care providers and public health officials.
“What has happened in the last week or so in my opinion has really made a tough situation worse,” he said in a Facebook Live update. “I cannot remember a worse response to a major public issue than what I’m seeing right now.”
Schenectady County, meanwhile, said Thursday that the vaccination rollout has been so consuming that it must scale back its infection tracking and quarantine followup, and have infected county residents do some of the contact tracing themselves.