Would a Free Beer Encourage You to Get The COVID Vaccination?
Government leaders are looking for ways to encourage more people to get the COVID-19 Vaccination. Reports indicate a vaccine surplus as fewer people are now getting the shot and some are skipping the 2nd dose after getting the first. Buffalo started it and now Syracuse is following their lead, offering a free beer and other goodies for getting vaccinated.
Buffalo called it the Shot and A Chaser Clinic and even used Homer Simpson to promote it using his picture captioned with, MMM Beer. They partnered with the Resurgence Brewing Company to offer a Shot and a Chaser Vaccine Clinic at the brewery.
Public health workers soldier on through unprecedented pandemic: Health Care Heroes 2021
Updated May 09, 2021;
Posted May 08, 2021
Oregon Health Authority opened an agency operations center in Portland to provide coordinated response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 virus in Oregon. March 3, 2020. Beth Nakamura/Staff
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By Kathleen O’Brien, Special to The Oregonian/OregonLive
There are few lawn signs thanking your local health department for its help during the pandemic. No free meals to boost the morale of exhausted employees. No applause from high-rise balconies in their honor.
Yet like their hospital counterparts, the 153,000 employees of the nation’s nearly 3,000 local health departments have been tested, tried, and sometimes exhausted by the pandemic.
How our reporting led to action on body cameras (Letter from the Editor)
Updated May 07, 4:08 PM;
Posted May 07, 4:07 PM
This photo from 2018 shows a body camera worn by Syracuse police.Patrick Lohmann | Syracuse.com
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Dear reader,
Our best work as the largest local news outlet in Central New York holds our elected officials accountable and leads to important changes in our community. Rarely, however, do we see the swift results from our reporting as we did on Friday, April 23.
First thing that morning, reporter Samantha House published a story about the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Department being one of few organizations its size in the state that doesn’t have body-worn cameras. In an interview, Sheriff Gene Conway said he couldn’t see prioritizing spending the money it would take to outfit his team with cameras over other expenses and that he had no plans to implement such a program.
SU’s Class of ’21 makes it to the finish line; plus, Covid shots for kids coming soon (Good Morning CNY for May 7)
Updated May 07, 2021;
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Flights of mules are also available at Second Chance.
Jane Marmaduke Woodman
DINING OUT REVIEW; THE SECOND CHANCE DINER: When you think of diners, you probably don’t think about flights of mimosas or mules (above), but that’s just the start of the surprises at the Second Chance Diner in Camillus. Read the full review. (Jane Marmaduke Woodman photo)
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SU’s Class of ’21 makes it to the finish line: Last summer, Syracuse University invited back 23,000 students and 5,000 employees for a year of uncertainty. Families and students wondered if it was worth the hefty price tag to sit in a dorm room watching a professor on the screen. Kids doubted it would last. They packed like it was a two-week vacation. No one thought they would make it to the end of the year. They did. Here are their stories.