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Officials in Saratoga County provided updates Wednesday on a number of efforts related to assisting residents during the pandemic.
Saratoga County Public Health Services Commissioner Dr. Daniel Kuhles says the county is making progress in slowing the spread of COVID-19.
“We’re averaging now about 44 cases a day in the last week. At our peak on January 6th, it was 276 cases per day. So it’s a dramatic decrease,” said Kuhles.
Hospitalizations are down too, and to date, more than 32,000 county residents have received at least one dose of vaccine. Though the supply of vaccine being provided to the county through the state and federal government is increasing, demand still outstrips supply.
Feds, New York state to open four COVID vaccination sites upstate
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COVID vaccination sites coming to Rochester, Yonkers, Buffalo and Albany
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Mass vaccination site to open March 3 at Albany armory
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The Washington Avenue Armory in Albany perhaps best known as home court of the Patroons basketball team will be transformed into a mass-vaccination site, slated to open in March. (Jim Franco/Special to the Times Union.)James Franco
ALBANY A mass vaccination site will open at Albany s Washington Avenue Armory that will deliver 7,000 shots a week, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Wednesday.
The site, which will open March 3, was announced along with three others in Yonkers, Buffalo and Rochester, joining two mass-vaccination sites opened in Queens and Brooklyn. All six are designed to reach socially vulnerable communities, meaning predominantly people of color who would otherwise have less access to the vaccine and are on average more distrusting of it.