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More Onondaga County residents died in 2020 than in at least 50 years. It wasn’t all Covid Updated Feb 12, 2021; Posted Feb 12, 2021 Workers staff the Syracuse Community Health Center coronavirus screening site at 819 S. Salina St. in March. Post-Standard file photo Facebook Share Syracuse, N.Y. – Onondaga County saw more people die in 2020 than any year since at least 1970 – but Covid-19 isn’t likely the only reason. The county recorded 4,834 deaths last year, the most in at least 50 years. That is 457 deaths more than the average of the previous five years, a common statistical measuring stick. The number of extra deaths matches almost exactly the confirmed toll from Covid-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus and unknown until early in 2020. ....
NY Covid-19 vaccine rollout stumbles along as supply fluctuates, demand surges Updated Jan 16, 2021; Facebook Share Syracuse, N.Y. – New York’s rapidly expanding Covid-19 vaccine rollout was plagued this week by widespread confusion, enormous frustration, and calls to make the system fairer and easier to use. Problems cascaded as the state expanded the eligible population to about 7 million people, while New York is getting only 300,000 doses of the vaccine each week. That number is likely to drop to 250,000, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday. People desperate to get vaccinated struggled this week with websites that crashed and a phone line with wait times long enough to watch an entire football game. Tens of thousands secured appointments at six yet-to-open vaccine sites, only to see those appointments canceled by the state Department of Health because the web link wasn’t supposed to be made public yet. ....
NY data lists restaurants as low coronavirus risk. Owners ask: Then why is Cuomo killing us? Updated Dec 12, 2020; Facebook Share Syracuse, N.Y. Restaurants and bars across New York have been shut down, threatened with fines, and generally put under various heavy and ever-changing restrictions since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March. Most complied, while some are giving up and closing either temporarily or permanently, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other officials repeatedly warn that dining out is a significant contributor to the spread of the virus. Then on Friday, Cuomo produced a chart showing the risks of coronavirus exposure due to various activities, covering the period of September, October and November, when cases numbers began to escalate. ....