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Dr. Elizabeth Buck, right, gets her first of two COVID-19 vaccination shots administered by registered nurse Ashley Gavin at the Saranac Lake Hudson Headwaters Health Network office in the Adirondack Medical Center building on Tuesday. Buck will return in 28 days for a second dose of the vaccine.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) Vaccine distribution to the general population may begin in late January, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and the Franklin and Essex County health departments are preparing to run mass vaccination clinics, should the state ask counties to disseminate the coronavirus vaccine.
acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com There are 250 cases of COVID-19 in Franklin and Essex counties as of Friday, with Franklin County setting new record numbers of cases daily and correctional facilities in both counties seeing the highest rates of inmate cases ever. Essex County reported a COVID-19-related death on Friday.
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– Franklin County again has a new highest number of active positive cases ever. With 38 new cases reported Friday, the total of 187 current cases includes many in Bare Hill and Upstate correctional facilities. Of the 38 new cases Friday, 22 were inmates, according to Franklin County data. Eleven cases were resolved Friday bringing the total number of people who have recovered from the virus in Franklin County to 474. This is of 669 people who have tested positive here this year. There have been eight deaths related to COVID-19, most at the Alice Center nursing home in Malone.
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eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com The number of new COVID-19 cases continues to rise locally as the statewide vaccine rollout moves forward. The towns of Tupper Lake and North Elba are no longer the epicenters of their respective counties. Franklin County Public Health reported 15 new positives on Wednesday, plus 14 residents recently deemed recovered, bringing the total number of active cases countywide to 150. Forty-three of those cases are tied to the Bare Hill Correctional Facility. As of Tuesday, there were 52 active cases of COVID-19 in the town of Tupper Lake, fewer than the 65 active cases in Malone. The number of people who are either isolated or quarantined in Tupper Lake, however, is still higher than in the county seat. At least 220 Tupper Lakers were either isolated or quarantined, compared to Malone’s 77 residents in quarantine or isolation.
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The number of new COVID-19 cases continues to rise locally as the statewide vaccine rollout moves forward. The towns of Tupper Lake and North Elba are no longer the epicenters of their respective counties. The Essex County Health Department reported 67 active cases of COVID-19 countywide on Tuesday Dec. 15, 14 of those cases new since Monday. The town of North Elba, which had the highest number of active cases in the county for some time, had 14 active cases as of Tuesday. The town of Ticonderoga has become the county’s epicenter with 28 active cases as of Tuesday, six of them new since Monday.