eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com Essex County Public Health Director Linda Beers speaks in Elizabethtown during the department’s first press conference of the pandemic on March 18. (News photo Elizabeth Izzo) Friends drive by Ruth Hart’s home on Interlaken Avenue Sunday, May 3, 2020 wishing her a happy 101st birthday. Instead of her usual party at the Crowne Plaza, in which she invited friends to visit her in 2018 and 2019, the community held a drive-by parade in her honor due to coronavirus health and safety guidelines. (News photo Elizabeth Izzo) Adirondack Health Assistant Vice President of Patient Care Services Carrie Reardon, left, prepares to test Lake Placid Elementary School Technology Coordinator and Village Trustee Jason Leon, right, for COVID-19 at a mobile testing site at the North Elba Show Grounds on May 13. (News photo Elizabeth Izzo)