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Despite having the highest 7-day average COVID-19 positivity rate in the region, the lowest vaccination percentage of the six rural counties in the Mohawk Valley and a highly publicized virus outbreak at its county jail affecting more than 80 people the Fulton County Public Health Department still struggled to give away doses of the Moderna vaccine Thursday, leaving 60 doses unused.
“We’ve never had leftover vaccine,” Fulton County Director of Public Health Laurel Headwell said after the end of her department’s Point of Distribution [POD] vaccine clinic, held at Fulton-Montgomery Community College on Thursday.
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FONDA Montgomery County is starting to see a glimpse of normalcy as the COVID-19 virus positivity rate continues to decrease and nursing home visitation has opened.
Montgomery County Executive Matt Ossenfort announced during the county’s weekly update that nursing home visitation has restarted in which visitors must take a rapid test before entering any facility.
“This hopefully is a good sign that things are going to start heading in a better direction,” Ossenfort said.
He said numbers continue to trend downwards. The county only saw 107 new cases this week which is the lowest total number of positive cases the county has seen since January. In January, the county had as many as 393 total positives in one week.
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