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Sam Ruland, York Daily Record Published 1:40 pm UTC Mar. 9, 2021 About this series: Over the next several weeks, reporters with USA Todays Pennsylvania network will take a look back at the impact COVID-19 has had on the commonwealth over the past year, and what the future holds. Neighborhoods across the state — some lined with million-dollar homes, others by more modest dwellings — struggled to survive this year as the coronavirus pandemic uprooted the lives of Pennsylvanians everywhere. Bu...

Punch Newspapers Sections our correspondents States on Tuesday started receiving their consignments of the  Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with Lagos collecting 507,000 doses,  Nasarawa, 61,000; Ekiti,  52,960 and Ondo,  75,570. Officials of the states disclosed these figures to The PUNNCH  in separate interviews just as one of our correspondents gathered that between 150,000 and 160,000 doses would be given to Katsina State. Recall that the Federal Government  on Tuesday last week r...

Fox News correspondent Bryan Llenas has the latest from Brooklyn on Special Report New York Gov. Andrew Cuomos top attorney is leaving his administration in the middle of scandals that have resulted in calls for Cuomos impeachment and resignation. Counsel to the Governor Kumiki Gibson, who has served in that role since 2019, will be taking a nonprofit job after she leaves the government on Friday. It comes as 76 New York lawmakers from both parties are calling for resignation and/or impeachme...

COVIDsmart, a digital health study designed to examine the many impacts of COVID- 19 on individuals and their communities launched today, with an open call for participation.

The newly approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine has crossed the bridge. Barnstable County officials announced Thursday that they will dispense 1,200 doses of the one-shot vaccine next week during two clinics at Cape Cod Community College in West Barnstable. They said 600 doses will be given out Tuesday and 600 more on Thursday in the community college gymnasium. All of the appointments have since filled up, but county officials said Monday they expect more supply next week. Registration for ap...

COVID Task Force ecstatic about Johnson & Johnson vaccine Bronwen Howells Walsh What a difference a week makes. Members of the Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force yesterday used words like "ecstatic," "profoundly encouraging" and "remarkable," saying limited state supply of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine means they are confident in their ability to reach vulnerable populations. Sen. Julian Cyr (D-Truro) said the whole region now is pulling in one direction, focusing on homebound and vulnerable...

This story has been updated. BOURNE — State Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, on Thursday slapped down a freshman state representative’s plans for a teacher vaccination clinic this month at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School. But state Rep. Steven G. Xiarhos, R-Barnstable, does not intend to abandon plans for the Bourne clinic, according to a Thursday afternoon statement from his office. “This has nothing to do with politics,” said the statement from Xiarhos’ chief of staff, Kaitlin M. ...

The Indonesian government is open to cooperating with national private companies for producing and distributing the Red and White COVID-19 vaccine, which is ...

Cape Cod Times WEST BARNSTABLE  —  A new mass vaccination site at Cape Cod Community College is expected to dispense 4,000 doses of vaccine next week to the region’s most vulnerable residents and senior citizens, Michael K. Lauf, president and CEO of Cape Cod Healthcare, said Thursday. The vaccination site being run by Cape Cod Healthcare with Barnstable County and local officials came about as a result of local entities coming together to form the Cape Cod Regional Vaccine Consortium Th...

New consortium organizes to make at least 4,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine available to eligible residents on Cape Cod