Both of Chautauqua County’s major hospitals are among those across New York state with 10% bed capacity or less, according to data released this week by the state Department of Heath. As of Monday, the latest information to be collected, all 106 acute care beds were full at UPMC Chautauqua ...
In the month of November, Chautauqua County recorded at least 17 deaths due to COVID-19. It’s even worse for bordering Cattaraugus and Warren counties. The Chautauqua County Health Department announced Wednesday that there were nine new deaths from the week of Nov. 21-27. That brings the county’s total to 228 deaths since the pandemic began. At the end of October, Chautauqua County had reported 211 deaths. The ages of the 17 people who have died in November are as follows: one person 39 or younger; two people in their 50s; three people in their 60s; three people in their 70s; ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to kick off a more urgent campaign for Americans to get COVID-19 booster shots Thursday as he unveils his winter plans for combating the coronavirus and its omicron variant with enhanced availability of shots and vaccines but without major new ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week even though the U.S. job market has been rebounding from last year's coronavirus recession. Jobless claims climbed by 28,000 to 222,000 from the previous week's 52-year low 194,000, the Labor ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Just a day after the U.S. announced its first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus had been detected in California, health officials announced Thursday it was found in a man who attended an anime convention in New York City in late November. The man tested ...
While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant, the delta form of the coronavirus isn't finished wreaking havoc in the U.S., sending record numbers of patients to the hospital in some states, especially in the Midwest and New England. "Omicron is a spark that's on the ...
