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The increase in COVID cases and positivity rates comes as the state Department of Health has taken a step back from its once all-encompassing rules.

For the first time in 40 years, there is a change at the top in the Town of Mamaroneck.

Vaccine appointments in the Beaver Valley are still tough to come by more than two months after the first shots became available.  The state is in week 10 of a statewide vaccine effort with more locations offering vaccine appointments each week. Heritage Valley Health System, UPMC Health System and Allegheny Health Network, along with dozens of retail pharmacies, have all begun hosting vaccine clinics for members of group 1A. Under Pennsylvania regulations, front-line health workers, those 65...

Rockland/Westchester Journal News County health departments again were expected to receive one-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccinations this week as well as mRNA vaccines that require two doses weeks apart. In Week 14 of COVID vaccine distribution, pharmacies and Federally Qualified Health Centers were expected to receive the two-dose mRNA vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer.  People age 60 and over can book vaccine appointments at any location that administers them, including state-run va...

Joan Milewski doesnt have a computer. Shes in her late 70s (though she refuses to describe herself as anything other than "middle-aged") and gave up having a computer when she entered retirement. She didnt want one, didnt need one and her kids could call her if they wanted to reach her.  So when she learned about the COVID-19 vaccine — and the quickest way to sign up for one was online — it felt unfair.  "If you dont have a computer, you have to wait," said Milewski, who lives in th...

At MidHudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie, Dr. Daniela Stokes was on the verge of tears as she waited to get vaccinated Tuesday. The infectious disease doctor had lost her mother to COVID-19. At St. Johns Riverside Hospital, Dr. Mark Silberman welcomed the quick stick in his left deltoid as the “beginning of the end” for the COVID-19 pandemic that caused more than 300,000 deaths across the U.S. and wrought “tremendous trauma” to the Yonkers hospital last spring. Stokes and Silber...