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1 of 7 Customers head into PortSmittâs Lakeway Restaurant on Pecks Road in Pittsfield in late October, shortly before its final day on Oct. 31. Contact tracers ultimately linked more than 60 coronavirus infections to PortSmittâs. BEN GARVER â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE Yuki Cohen, shown in her Methuselah Bar and Lounge, has been cited for a third time for COVID-19 health violations. She said she is being targeted by frivolous complaints. EAGLE FILE PHOTO Ann and Carlos Shacar wait to get into PortSmittâs Lakeway Restaurant on Pecks Road in Pittsfield in late October, days before its closing. Contact tracers have linked more than 60 coronavirus infections to Portsmittâs. ....
GREAT BARRINGTON â There was that birthday party in Pittsfield, the flag football games in Adams and a few âlarge gatheringsâ that set off a sizable volume of coronavirus infections in Pittsfield last month and trickled down to South County. And there were other, more subtle exposures. One out-of-state visitor passed on what one Berkshire County public health official said appeared to be a different, mean strain of the virus that made âone group of women extremely sick.â Leslie Drager, public health nurse for 20 Berkshire towns, said most symptoms she has seen have been mild â cold and allergylike â until that group surfaced on her radar. ....
PITTSFIELD â Ciara Berkeley said she and her 2-year-old daughter have recovered from COVID-19, and are seeking a return to normalcy â as it was before the virus derailed their lives. âWeâre feeling better, just trying to get back to normal,â said Berkeley, 26, a nursing student at Berkshire Community College. She spoke nearly one month after first noticing that something was ailing her daughter, Inari. On Nov. 9, Inari went down for a nap, and, when Berkeleyâs child awoke, she said, she noticed she felt hot to the touch, was lethargic and was experiencing a quickened pulse. She took Inariâs temperature, and, after her daughter registered a fever of 103.8 degrees, brought her right in to Berkshire Medical Center. ....