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Nurse Gail Lautenschuetz draws a dose of coronavirus vaccine Feb. 25 at the North Country Community College gym in Saranac Lake.
(Enterprise photo â Elizabeth Izzo) PLATTSBURGH Though mass vaccination sites in Plattsburgh and Potsdam are not currently booking first-dose appointments as far out as those in more populated areas, they are not closing. “We’re tracking supply and demand on a daily basis, and will continue to monitor those trends and make adjustments accordingly,” state Department of Health Public Information Officer Samantha Fuld told the Press-Republican. “We continue to take a multi-pronged, multi-faceted approach to breaking down barriers to access and empowering all New Yorkers to confidently make the decision to get vaccinated.”
South Burlington Location To Welcome Participants Next Month
Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont Health Network – Home Health & Hospice Adult Day Program, which provides critical care and therapeutic services to the community, will reopen its South Burlington site on June 8, based on guidance from the state of Vermont.
Statewide, Adult Day Programs have been closed for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Staffing and resource challenges are driving a slower-than-hoped reopening for these facilities across Vermont. Home Health & Hospice will focus its staff and resources in one location – Farrell Street in South Burlington.
The two other Adult Day Program sites operated by Home Health & Hospice in Colchester and Essex will remain closed until further notice, with the possibility of reopening them re-evaluated ongoing. This gradual approach is intended to work to ensure the long-term viability of this important program.
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Political hand-wringing in Washington over Russia’s hacking of federal agencies and interference in U.S. politics has mostly overshadowed a worsening digital scourge with a far broader wallop: crippling and dispiriting extortionary ransomware attacks by cybercriminal mafias that mostly operate in foreign safe havens out of the reach of Western law enforcement.
Stricken in the United States alone last year were more than 100 federal, state and municipal agencies, upwards of 500 health care centers, 1,680 educational institutions and untold thousands of businesses, according to the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft. Dollar losses are in the tens of billions. Accurate numbers are elusive. Many victims shun reporting, fearing the reputational blight.
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As ransomware hits U.S. agencies and companies, crooks stay out of reach
An explainer: A new report by a public-private task force offers a comprehensive plan for assaulting ransomware.
By FRANK BAJAKAssociated Press
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Washington Metropolitan Police Department chief Robert Contee speaks during a news conference in Washington. This week, one ransomware syndicate threatened to make available to local criminal gangs data they say they stole from the Washington, D.C., metro police on informants. Alex Brandon/Associated Press
BOSTON Political hand-wringing in Washington over Russia’s hacking of federal agencies and interference in U.S. politics has mostly overshadowed a worsening digital scourge with a far broader wallop: crippling and dispiriting extortionary ransomware attacks by cybercriminal mafias that mostly operate in foreign safe havens out of the reach of Western law enforcement.