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COVID-19 Coverage

First COVID-19 Shot Recipient In US Now A Vaccine Activist

She became a vaccine celebrity by accident. Since being hailed as the first person in the United States to get a COVID-19 vaccine, New York nurse Sandra Lindsay has become a prominent face in the country's biggest-ever vaccination campaign. She has been promoting the shots on panels, in ...

Year In Review: Development Projects Coming To Fruition

Editor’s Note: This is the first of five stories highlighting some of the most-read stories in The Post-Journal during the past year. Today’s series focuses on area businesses. The Jamestown area is buzzing with excitement over the opening of a Target store in the former Kmart store in ...

Omicron, Storms, Disrupt Air Travel For 4th Consecutive Day

NEW YORK (AP) — Flight cancellations that disrupted holiday travel stretched into Monday with thousands of U.S. flights spiked during one of the year's busiest travel periods because of crews out sick with COVID-19 and now storm fronts creating more havoc. Flight delays and cancellations ...

CDC Recommends Shorter COVID Isolation, Quarantine For All

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in ...

NYC Vaccination Mandate For The Private Sector Takes Effect

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's sweeping mandate requiring nearly all private-sector businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace took effect Monday amid a spike in coronavirus infections. Workers at roughly 184,000 businesses were required to show proof they have received ...

Omicron Is Latest Blow To Pandemic-Weary Front-Line Workers

BOSTON (AP) — Staff absences for COVID-19 tripled this month in London's hospitals, and nearly 10% of the city's firefighters called out sick. In New York, about 2,700 police officers were absent earlier this week — twice the number who are ill on an average day. And on Cape Cod in ...