Can you catch coronavirus after your second vaccine shot?
Updated May 10, 2021;
Posted May 10, 2021
While a very small percentage of people who are fully vaccinated will still get coronavirus if they are exposed to the virus that causes it, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says such cases are rare. (Staten Island Advance file photos)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. It’s a question on everyone’s mind as we ease back into the routines we once considered normal, occasionally ditching the mask and even hugging those who’ve been vaccinated just like us: Can I catch coronavirus (COVID-19) even when I’m fully vaccinated?
A decade upstate for gunman shooting at popular barbershop in 2019
Posted May 09, 2021
This file photo shows police responding to a shooting near “Good 2 Go” barbershop on Forest Avenue in Mariners Harbor Saturday, Dec. 28th, 2019. The defendant pleaded guilty to attempted murder. (Staten Island Advance/Shane DiMaio)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A former worker who shot and wounded another man in a Mariners Harbor barbershop over 16 months ago was clipped with a stiff prison sentence.
Montel Milbry will spend a decade behind bars for attempted murder stemming from the Dec. 28, 2019 attack.
He was sentenced on Friday in state Supreme Court, St. George.
Staten Island grandmother survives rare surgery; returns home just in time for Mother’s Day
Today 7:00 AM
Patient Nancy Lopez with from the left, Dr. Gabriele Di Luozzo, director of aortic surgery at Mount Sinai Morningside, and Dr. Daniel Han, a vascular surgeon at Mount Sinai Morningside and the Mount Sinai Health System. (Courtesy/Mount Sinai Health System) Staten Island AdvanceStaten Island Advance
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Nancy Lopez had been feeling a little under the weather as of late not quite herself and she knew something was simply just not right.
But on one particular day when the mother of three developed severe chest pain and it became difficult for her to breath, it was apparent she needed immediate medical attention.
2 more COVID deaths on S.I., but hospitalizations drop
Updated 2:47 PM;
Today 2:47 PM
COVID-19 hospitalizations dropped by six on Saturday, as the number of borough residents being treated for the virus continues to decline. (Tom Wrobleski/Staten Island Advance)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Two more borough residents have succumbed to the coronavirus (COVID-19), while 72 new confirmed cases of the disease were recorded here, city Health Department data show.
At the same time, Staten Island’s coronavirus (COVID-19) hospitalization total continued to drop, with six fewer patients being treated at the borough’s hospitals.
As of 1 p.m. Saturday, 1,796 Staten Islanders are believed to have died from complications related to the coronavirus, according to the most recent data available.