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A New Yorker receives a COVID-19 vaccine Feb. 8, at a state vaccination site at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, Manhattan.
(Provided photo â governor s office) Vaccine eligibility requirements expanded to include a new swath of the population on Sunday. The Essex County Health Department has scheduled a vaccine clinic in the southern end of the county this week, and Franklin County Public Health is piecing together its vaccine distribution plan. Those with comorbidities and underlying health conditions are now eligible to get vaccinated. That includes those with cancer or those in remission, chronic kidney disease, a pulmonary disease, intellectual and developmental disabilities, heart conditions, those who are immunocompromised, those who are pregnant, those who are obese or severely obese, those with a sickle cell disease or thalassemia, those with diabetes, a cerebrovascular disease, liver disease, and those with neurological co
Both Franklin and Essex counties reported deaths of COVID-19-positive residents on Tuesday, Feb. 2. Franklin County reported two deaths. The county said neither of them was a nursing home resident but did not say where in the county they lived or died. Essex County reported one death at the Champlain Valley Senior Community in Willsboro, which is currently experiencing a coronavirus outbreak. As has been the case since the pandemic began, neither county identified the people who died. Altogether, 22 Essex County residents have died after contracting COVID-19 since last March, the majority of those residents of nursing homes or assisted-living facilities. In Franklin County, 10 people have died.
Both Franklin and Essex counties reported deaths of COVID-19-positive residents on Tuesday. Franklin County reported two deaths. The county said neither of them was a nursing home resident but did not say where in the county they lived or died. Essex County reported one death at the Champlain Valley Senior Community in Willsboro, which is currently experiencing a coronavirus outbreak. As has been the case since the pandemic began, neither county identified the people who died. Altogether, 22 Essex County residents have died after contracting COVID-19 since last March, the majority of those residents of nursing homes or assisted-living facilities. In Franklin County, 10 people have died.
Franklin County Public Health reported a spike in COVID-19 cases on Friday. Thirty-nine new cases of COVID-19 were identified between Thursday and Friday. That is abnormally high for this rural county, which has recently reported around 20 new cases each day. The new cases bring the total number of active cases countywide to 195. The county reported a 6.04% test positivity rate on Friday and a 6.36% seven-day average test positivity rate. Franklin County Manager Donna Kissane attributed the new cases to clusters in prisons, pre-surgery tests and community spread, meaning people who test positive without a known exposure to another positive case. “Adhering to the best practices in the best defense to reduce the spread of the virus,” she wrote in her daily email.