U.S. health advisers are debating if millions of Americans who received Moderna vaccinations should get a booster shot -- this time, using half the original dose. Already millions who got their initial Pfizer shots at least six months ago are getting a booster of that brand. Thursday, ...
ALBANY — New York health care workers will be able to seek religious exemptions from a statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate as a lawsuit challenging the requirement proceeds, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Judge David Hurd in Utica had issued a temporary restraining order a month ago after ...
The rate of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 has slowed slightly in Chautauqua County, according to weekly information released this morning by the health department. From Oct. 3 to Oct. 9, there were 433 new cases of the virus along with three new virus-related deaths. There are currently 331 active cases, 33 people with the virus in the hospital and 700 people in quarantine. To date there have 12,612 total confirmed cases, 12,013 recoveries and 192 virus-related deaths. During the week ending Oct. 2, there were 579 new cases; the week ending Sept. 25 there were 523; the week ending ...
MIAMI (AP) — Banned from the Florida hospital room where her mother lay dying of COVID-19, Jayden Arbelaez pitched an idea to construction employees working nearby. "Is there any way that I could get there?" Arbelaez asked them, pointing to a small third-story window of the hospital in ...
WARREN, Pa. -- Over 40% of the current population at the Warren County Jail has tested positive for COVID-19. Most recent data available from the jail from Tuesday indicates that 45 of 106 inmates had tested positive. None have been hospitalized and no fatalities have resulted from these ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's COVID-19 vaccination mandate for restaurants, gyms and entertainment venues is going so well that only 15 businesses have been fined for not enforcing the policy, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. De Blasio said the high rate of compliance with the vaccine mandate that was announced last summer and has been enforced since Sept. 13 shows that "the vast, vast, vast majority of restaurants and all the other businesses are saying, 'Yes we're going to work with this, we're going to make it work for our employees, for our customers, keep everyone safe.' ...
