The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the county’s perseverance through it were the main aspects Tuesday of Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente Jr.’s State of the County address.
In the roughly half-hour address, Picente talked about county-run vaccination sites, mask mandates and honored the memory of the more than 400 county residents who lost their lives due to the pandemic.
Picente further spoke on economic development, the county’s fiscal health and a variety of plans proposed to help the county move forward, powered by federal money from American Rescue Plan funding.
“These last 12 months have been challenging for everyone to say the least,” Picente said. “But through it all, we channeled our history as a people, determined not to let this or any crisis define us. Our goals and vision should not be based on how this pandemic will impact us, but rather how we will continue to invest, build and grow a better Oneida County for generations t
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Oneida County, on Thursday, experienced a day of single-digit Covid-related hospitalizations, at nine.
Posted: Apr 30, 2021 5:39 PM
Posted By: Joleen Ferris
Oneida County, on Thursday, experienced a day of single-digit Covid-related hospitalizations, at nine. They ve been going down steadily for better than a week now, which is great news, says Oneida County Director of Public Health, Dan Gilmore.
Gilmore says part of the reason is the age of those currently contracting the virus in the county. Older adults, I should say, are not the people necessarily becoming infected with Covid as much any more. Some certainly are, but it s more the younger people from the late 30s and younger that are the cases popping up every day that we see come across our desk, says Gilmore. So we re getting younger people, presumably healthier and more robust, and they re not requiring hospitalization stays. They re quarantining, isolating at home and they re recovering with minimal medical inter