While school districts continue to educate, transport and support their students, officials also continue to struggle with staffing. All across the area, districts are reporting that its staff and substitute rosters are not full — a problem that existed before COVID-19 and has now been ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Home health aides who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccination are barred from working with patients in New York as of Friday under a new state mandate that one industry group warned could lead to thousands of caregivers losing their jobs. The mandate, put in place by Gov. Kathy Hochul, also applies to workers at assisted living homes, hospice care, treatment centers and AIDS home care programs. It comes on top of another mandate, implemented last month, that covered hospital and nursing home workers. The state’s vaccine mandate says health care employers can fire ...
The rate of school children who have contracted COVID-19 has decreased over the past week, according to statistics from local school districts submitted to New York state officials. When the New York State School COVID Report Card went live on Sept. 27, 1.4% of the children enrolled in area schools had a positive COVID-19 test. That number has fallen to 1.12% as of Monday. In Jamestown, the percentage of enrolled students who have had a positive COVID test decreased from 2.53% to 1.49% while the percentage in the Dunkirk City School District has fallen slightly from 1.27% to 1.17%. ...
NEW YORK — One in three U.S. nursing homes has fewer nurses and aides than before the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the truth of a profit-driven industry with too few caring for society’s most vulnerable. Even before the coronavirus began sweeping through facilities, most homes kept ...
WARREN, Pa. -- The Warren County School Board has presented a unified front in favor of mask mandates. At a special meeting Friday morning, all nine members voted in favor of rescinding previous decisions easing mask requirements in the district. There was no discussion of three of the items during public session. About 100 people, including the board members, district personnel, parents, students, and others were online for the meeting. Five people signed up to address the board – four did so – all of them against the mask mandate. The board approved motions that rescinded ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added just 194,000 jobs in September, a second straight tepid gain and evidence that the pandemic still has a grip on the economy with many companies struggling to fill millions of open jobs. Friday's report from the Labor Department also showed that the ...
