PUBLISHED 6:00 PM ET Jan. 22, 2021 PUBLISHED 6:00 PM EST Jan. 22, 2021
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Vaccinating 19 million or so New Yorkers was never going to be an easy task. States across the country have struggled with the rollout of the distribution to end the coronavirus pandemic. Supplies have lagged far behind demand.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has blamed the federal government for the supply bottleneck. New York is going week to week after its initial batch doses was exhausted on Friday, he said at a news conference. Local officials, however, are pointing to Albany, not Washington, for the problems.
Larry Schwartz, a longtime advisor to Cuomo brought in to help handle the vaccine distribution, said in an interview with Spectrum News the fault lies with the failed Trump administration s rollout.
COVID-19 vaccine rollout ‘frustrating’ in Ontario County
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Residents are eager to be vaccinated against COVID-19, while a limited supply of vaccine and resources is “frustrating,” Ontario County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Marren said Monday.
Ontario County has received 300 doses of the vaccine, with 200 of those from the state and 100 sourced locally from Clifton Springs, said Marren. The Victor town supervisor, Marren serves on the governor’s regional control room committee for the Finger Lakes region, which monitors reopening plans based on COVID-19.
“We are in Phase 1B, but we are only one-half through Phase 1A,” said Marren, referring to the limited amount of vaccine available for the growing number of people now eligible to be vaccinated.
Thompson restricting visitors as COVID-19 cases spike in Ontario County
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CANANDAIGUA With Ontario Public Health reporting COVID-19 cases at a record high, UR Medicine Thompson Health is not permitting visitors at F.F. Thompson Hospital, effective Wednesday, Dec. 23.
“This difficult decision is not taken lightly. We are doing what we need to do in order to protect our patients and our associates as we continue to serve our community,” said President/CEO Michael F. Stapleton, Jr.
For the time being, visitors for maternity patients and patients who are deemed “imminent end of life” are exempted, though restricted. These visitors will be screened at the entrance and must present a driver’s license or similar form of identification, for contract tracing purposes.
Canandaigua hospital suspends visitation due to COVID-19 surge
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As Ontario County Public Health reported COVID-19 cases at a record high numbers UR Medicine Thompson Health has suspended visitation at F.F. Thompson Hospital.
The change in policy becomes effective Wednesday, December 23rd. “This difficult decision is not taken lightly. We are doing what we need to do in order to protect our patients and our associates as we continue to serve our community,” said President/CEO Michael F. Stapleton, Jr. in a press release.
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CANANDAIGUA – With the holidays approaching and everyone in need of a little extra cheer this year, the folks at the M.M. Ewing Continuing Care Center decided to make a simple request of the community.
Via a Dec. 1 post on the Facebook page of the skilled-nursing facility’s parent organization, UR Medicine Thompson Health, they asked if people would consider sending cards, drawings or letters addressed simply “to someone special.” That way, they could distribute whatever happened to arrive amongst the residents of the 178-bed Parrish Street facility.
The staff was amazed to see the post shared hundreds of times, with well over 50,000 Facebook users reached, but they wondered if it would translate into anything tangible. Fast forward two weeks and they had received more than 1,700 cards, letters, drawings and ornaments from individuals, families, schools and more. As of this past Monday, they had reached more than 3,100 and counting.