Nearly all staffed acute care beds in Chautauqua County hospitals were occupied as of Sunday, according to information provided by hospitals to the state Health Department. UPMC Chautauqua had all 82 of its staffed acute care beds occupied through Sunday, with 27 of those patients ...
The January administration of the high school Regents examination program has been canceled due to the ongoing COVID–19 pandemic, state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa announced Tuesday. The cancellation applies to all Regents examinations that had been scheduled for the January Regents examination period. No decisions have been made regarding the June and August administrations of Regents examinations or any other state assessment programs. “Educators, school staff, communities, and families have taken painstaking efforts to ensure a safe and healthy school year,” Board of ...
Less than 40% of the eligible population in Chautauqua County is not vaccinated against COVID-19 yet they account for nearly 70% of those hospitalized with the virus, the county Health Department said. "I'm very concerned that as people gather for the holidays, especially indoors, we're going to see an even bigger surge in cases, hospitalizations and deaths than we're seeing after the Thanksgiving holiday," said Christine Schuyler, county public health director. Just over 79,000 people in the county over the age of 5 — representing those eligible to be vaccinated — have received ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Kathryn Malara, a Brooklyn teacher, lingered on a street Tuesday, filled with dread about going to her job. "I'm sitting in my car terrified to walk into school," she wrote on Twitter just before taking a deep breath and heading to her classroom. "Cases exploding. People I ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Wednesday extended a student loan moratorium that has allowed tens of millions of Americans to put off debt payments during the pandemic. Under the action, payments on federal student loans will remain paused through May 1. Interest rates will ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Wednesday authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus. The long-awaited milestone comes as U.S. cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all rising ...
