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Saranac Lake doctor David Johnson is seen here Wednesday, April 7 inside the gymnasium at Keene Central School, where the Essex County Health Department hosted a COVID-19 vaccine clinic. (News photo Elizabeth Izzo)
KEENE VALLEY Standing in the gymnasium at Keene Central School, Dr. David Johnson readied supplies at his station at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Wednesday, April 7. Johnson, who ran a private practice in Saranac Lake, retired in July after 34 years of caring for patients. He’s not done yet. He’s one of about 100 medical professionals who have signed up to serve as part of Essex County’s Medical Reserve Corps in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com A recent winter storm delayed this week’s coronavirus vaccine shipments to Franklin and Essex counties. Both county health departments were prepared to set up “PODs” this week or points of distribution, essentially a vaccine clinic where staffers would administer the 200 vaccine doses each county was set to receive. Those vaccines were largely earmarked for essential workers, and those with underlying health issues, a newly eligible part of the population. “We expect to receive (the doses) but at present time do not have a tracking number so cannot hold a POD without the vaccine,” Franklin County Manager Donna Kissane wrote in an email.
eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com The workload facing local hospitals and county health departments is on track to becoming unsustainable. Health care officials are imploring residents to take precautions to curb the spread before that happens. In a virtual press conference on Friday, multiple doctors from University of Vermont Health Network hospitals and public health directors from around Clinton, Essex and Franklin counties warned that the local COVID-19 caseload was beginning to stress the operations of both hospitals and county health departments. This comes at a time when rural hospitals have already faced significant financial challenges. Before the pandemic, some North Country hospitals were merging and downsizing. Last spring, those financial challenges were compounded when hospitals were directed to cancel elective surgeries for several weeks, cutting off a vital revenue-generator for rural health care facilities that care for a relatively large number of patients
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