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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.
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Letitia James speaks to the Watertown Daily Times editorial board.
(Enterprise photo â Sydney Schaefer, Watertown Daily Times)
ALBANY New York’s total COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes are about 42% more than what the state Department of Health previously published, according to a report from the state attorney general’s office released Thursday morning. The DOH confirmed the higher numbers that afternoon, releasing for the first time the number of presumed long-term care coronavirus fatalities.
According to state Health Department Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker, department data audited to date shows 12,743 total skilled nursing facility resident fatalities, including 9,786 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 complications 5,957 fatalities within nursing facilities and 3,829 in hospitals and 2,957 presumed virus nursing home fatalities from March 1, 2020 to Jan. 19, 2021.
Jan 27, 2021 Mae Elizabeth Lashway, age 96, formerly of Saranac Lake and currently of the Champlain Valley Senior Living Community in Willsboro, died Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh due to complications of COVID-19. Born in Saranac Lake on April 6, 1924, she was the daughter of George and Inez (Laggett) Baker. Mae married Arthur F. Lashway Jr. on Monday, Jan. 7, 1946, in Saranac Lake. He predeceased her on June 21, 1983. Mae had been a lifelong resident of Saranac Lake and had been employed as a secretary for the New York State Department of Health for many years. Prior to that she was employed with Adirondack Bank. She was a dedicated volunteer at the Saranac Lake Free Library for 30 years and continued to be an avid reader till the end.