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Dr. Elizabeth Buck, right, gets her first of two COVID-19 vaccination shots administered by registered nurse Ashley Gavin at the Saranac Lake Hudson Headwaters Health Network office in the Adirondack Medical Center building on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) As the number of people eligible for vaccination against the coronavirus grows, staff shortages could be a significant hurdle for the North Country region to overcome in its distribution efforts. Dr. Wouter Rietsema, vice president of population health and information services at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh, told reporters during a press conference Tuesday that a lack of qualified staff will be the “number-one rate limiter” for the North Country region as more people become eligible for vaccinations.
Dr. Elizabeth Buck, right, gets her first of two COVID-19 vaccination shots administered by registered nurse Ashley Gavin at the Saranac Lake Hudson Headwaters Health Network office in the Adirondack Medical Center building on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (Photo Aaron Cerbone, Adirondack Daily Enterprise)
Jan 06, 2021
Adirondack Daily Enterprise
As the number of people eligible for vaccination against the coronavirus grows, staff shortages could be a significant hurdle for the North Country region to overcome in its distribution efforts.
Dr. Wouter Rietsema, vice president of population health and information services at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh, told reporters during a press conference Tuesday that a lack of qualified staff will be the “number-one rate limiter” for the North Country region as more people become eligible for vaccinations.
By JOE LoTEMPLIO Editor in Chief Dec 25, 2020
Dec 25, 2020
PLATTSBURGH â Clinton County legislators will consider a local COVID-19 relief plan that has caused sparks.
Legislator Simon Conroy (D-Area 4, Town of Plattsburgh) put forth a plan to establish a relief fund using money from the federal Tobacco Settlement.
His plan calls for $45,000 of unused 2020 money from the fund, and another $65,000 allocated for 2021, to be used for local relief. Additional funds would be sought from towns, the state and corporations, Conroy said.
The $45,000 would be available immediately for emergency situations to those harmed by the coronavirus. The full legislature would decide who gets what, Conroy said.
WATERTOWN â The first shipments of Modernaâs COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties this week as hospitals continue d…
WATERTOWN â With the first COVID-19 vaccine administered in New York state last week, doses are now arriving at Samaritan Medical Center, with the first dose given at 6 a.m. Tuesday to Dr. Khalid P. Sindhu, nephrology specialist at the hospital.
He became the first to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Jefferson County.
Dr. Sindhu has been with Samaritan since 1997. Knowing the hospital has seen multiple patients with COVID-19 since the pandemicâs onset, and wanting to help stop the spread of the disease, Dr. Sindhu said he and his fellow medical professionals have been waiting for the vaccineâs arrival.
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