How many in your area got a Covid vaccine? Each ZIP Code in Onondaga County ranked
Updated May 04, 2021;
Posted May 03, 2021
Christopher Bumpus, director of nursing at Bishop Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Syracuse, gets a Covid-19 vaccination on Dec. 21, 2020.
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Syracuse, N.Y. – Fayetteville residents are the most likely in Onondaga County to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Residents of Syracuse’s Near West Side and Tipperary Hill are the least likely.
County officials increasingly are holding pop-up vaccination clinics in neighborhoods where participation has lagged. They are guided by data that breaks down the percentage of people vaccinated thus far in each ZIP Code.
Covid update: 2 more deaths in Onondaga County
Updated May 03, 2021;
Posted May 03, 2021
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As of today, 702 county residents have died of the virus since March 2020.
County health officials today confirmed 42 new cases of Covid-19 since Sunday. There are currently 635 active cases in the county.
The positive test rate, averaged over the past seven days, is 1.5%, roughly where it has been for a month.
There were 54 county residents being treated for Covid-19 in local hospitals today. Six patients were in intensive care today.
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Syracuse’s # 22 Chase Scanlan works on Stony Brooks #2 Connor Grippe and gets his shot in a game played at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y. March 11, 2021. Syracuse University would not say why Scanlan was suspended, citing privacy laws. Syracuse.com s reporting connected it to a domestic violence call to police.
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Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon said today there were 128 new cases of COVID in the county. The 7-day positivity rate is hovering around the 1.4% mark. He said 2 more people did die in the past 24 hours, and those deaths bring the total number of deaths in the county to 700.
In fact, some political experts thought we’d lose two.
“We’ve lost two or more seats every Census since 1950,” said Dan Lamb, lecturer in Cornell’s Institute for Public Affairs. “This is a break in the trend line that’s positive for New York. We’re not losing as much clout as we have in prior cycles.”
Losing only one representative seemed to be good news for the Empire State, until we heard that the difference between losing one seat and keeping our 27 representatives came down to fewer than 100 people filling out the census last year.
Yes. If 89 more people had responded to the once-a-decade nationwide count, we would have kept our seat in the House.