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The average age of COVID-19 patients in Erie County continues to drop heavily, because there has been so much effort to vaccinate older residents. Now young people playing sports has become a major issue.
For much of the long pandemic, sports just weren’t allowed. But as the lockdown eased, sports returned.
Since last year, County Executive Mark Poloncarz and County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein have been pushing to enforce the rules on teams, forcing dozens into lockdown and quarantine as virus cases surfaced, because the rules were often broken. Students, faculty, other staff than we have ever recorded, Poloncarz emphasized during his Tuesday briefing, 642 new cases for the most recent week ending, which is the highest we have ever seen. And you can look at the chart here and see how it keeps increasing. And this is almost all, not every case, but almost all cases are students. So it s very disconcerting.
COVID-19 hospitalizations drop slightly in WNY region
That’s down two people from the day before. The good news is that the number of people hospitalized has not increased a large amount for four consecutive days.
Credit: WGRZ Author: WGRZ Staff Updated: 3:21 PM EDT April 20, 2021
BUFFALO, N.Y. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the Western New York region on Monday dropped slightly to 345.
That’s down two people from the day before. The good news is that the number of people hospitalized has not increased a large amount for four consecutive days.
The Western New York region consists of Erie, Niagara, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany counties.
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Cuomo visits Buffalo, discusses COVID hospitalizations, vaccine mandate proposal
There s been a lot of debate over Erie County s plan of requiring Bills and Sabres fans to be vaccinated to attend home games next season. Author: Jeff Preval Updated: 6:42 PM EDT April 16, 2021
BUFFALO, N.Y. For weeks, 2 On Your Side has been reporting on rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations locally.
On Thursday, there were nearly 350 people hospitalized in Western New York with the virus, the highest that number has been since early February. Recently, we have seen an increase and it is concerning Western New York. We have seen again, hospitalizations up and down, but we have seen an increase, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday at the Northland Training Center in Buffalo.
Buffalo Bar and Restaurant Curfew Extended Past 11 PM
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Bars and restaurants in New York have gotten the green light to stay open later. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made the announcement on Wednesday that the curfew has been extended, starting Monday, April 19, 2021. As of now, Buffalo and Western New York bars and restaurants are allowed to stay open until 11 pm. According to WIVB, the executive order requiring food to be purchased with alcoholic beverages will remain in place. While it s nice that the curfew has been extended, only an hour is being added. The new curfew is midnight. Many bars and restaurants want to be able to fully reopen, but Gov. Cuomo says that will depend on the State s COVID-19 rates in the future.