Foss: COVID-19 re-invades nursing homes; Daughter tells of mother’s death in Amsterdam’s River Ridge | The Daily Gazette
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December 12, 2020
Ella “Ellie” Russo, a Johnstown native who died at 101 at River Ridge Living Center in Amsterdam. Provided
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Not long before she died, Ella “Ellie” Russo told her daughter she thought she could live to 103.
“If anyone could have done it, she could have done it,” Russo’s daughter Carole Vosburgh told me.
The COVID-19 outbreak at Russo’s nursing home, River Ridge Living Center in Amsterdam, changed everything.
Vosburgh learned her mother had contracted the virus in mid-November.
COVID positive test rates, hospitalization continue to rise in Capital Regoin | The Daily Gazette
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ALBANY As an FDA panel authorized the first COVID-19 vaccine in the United States on Thursday, the pandemic maintained its grip on the Capital Region as on much of the nation:
All of the Capital Region’s large counties now have seven-day positive test rates above 5%, and the smaller neighboring counties in the Mohawk Valley are running as high as 8%.
Hospital census was 23% higher in the Capital Region on Thursday than on the worst day this spring, and 173% higher in the Mohawk Valley.
A new infection cluster was reported at a Capital Region senior living facility 17 residents and two employees in a single unit of Wesley Health Care Center in Saratoga Springs.