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Office of the Governor The chaos in the COVID supply situation continues, as weekly supplies ricochet up and down and Albany bigfoots in to organize its own mass vaccinations instead of using existing county arrangements. Washington says supplies of the vaccines are increasing rapidly and there are now three different suppliers pumping out shots. But there is an array of different supply chains, like Washington contracting with pharmacies for mass vaccinations in nursing homes while providin...

Credit Niagara County Public Health Director Daniel Stapleton said 5,000 doses of the newly approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine are expected to be delivered, along with 1,500 Moderna doses. With the large allocation expected, the county will not transfer its Point of Dispensing clinic from the Kenan Center in Lockport to Gratwick Fire Hose Company Number 6 in North Tonawanda next week, as originally announced. New vaccine appointments will not be accepted until after the county receives the vacc...

New York State leaders have been calling on the federal government to provide more vaccine doses to New York.

The Transit Drive-In Will Now Serve as a Mobile Vaccination Site The Transit Drive-In has served many purposes this year from movies to Bills games.  Now they will serve as a mobile vaccination site for the COVID vaccine too. To think that drive-ins were becoming extinct just a few months ago is crazy considering all the things that we have been able to use them for since the pandemic began here in the United States. Theyve served as concert venues, graduation stages, places to watch Bills gam...

WBFOs Michael Mroziak reports. Nursing homes and hospitals in Niagara County are already distributing the COVID vaccine through federal and state programs. The county itself will begin its own Point of Dispensing sites, or PODS, beginning next Tuesday. The drive-through operation will first serve healthcare personnel who have direct contact with patients. Niagara County Public Health Director Daniel Stapleton Credit WBFO file photo “Doctors offices, staff providers from dental offices, EMS -...

1 of 2 There was likely a lot of honking in front of this Hyde Park Boulevard home back in early April. JAMES NEISS JamesNeiss.comThose Typically St. Patrick’s Day is a time of celebration — particularly in Niagara Falls where March 17 marks the day the city was incorporated. There was no celebrating in the Falls or the rest of Niagara County in 2020. This year, the date marked the first recorded case of COVID-19 in Niagara County The case involved a 42-year...

The Erie County Health Department has loosened the rules on who has to quarantine when there’s a positive case of Covid-19 in school. Since September, the county has taken a conservative approach and ordered 14 days of quarantine for anyone who was in a classroom with an infected person for 60 minutes or more. But now, with lower transmission rates being found in the schools, Erie County has backed off those guidelines. Instead, it will require quarantine for anyone within 6 feet of an inf...

It will be months before vaccine is ready for general public “As of right now, I do not have an answer" It will be months before vaccine is ready for general public and last updated 2020-12-14 20:49:43-05 BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) — The 170,000 of COVID-19 vaccines began arriving across New State Monday. 14,500 of those doses are also being sent to Western New York. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said he expects the first batch of vaccines will be heading straight to the hospitals. �...

NIAGARA COUNTY: Public Health Director Daniel Stapleton has been immersed in pandemic. By Benjamin Joe ben.joe@lockportjournal.com Dec 12, 2020 Daniel Stapleton A lot of people this year have had difficulties processing all the anxious feelings tied to the presence of COVID-19 in their lives.  Imagine being the director of public health in a community where your full-time job involves at least daily, and often hourly, updates on new infections and other virus-related ...