ALBANY — Thousands of healthcare workers in New York faced with either getting the COVID-19 vaccine or losing their jobs received at least one dose as the statewide mandate neared, according to state figures released Tuesday. More than 650,000 workers at hospitals and nursing homes in the ...

The Essex County Health Department reported one new death from COVID-19 over the weekend. The health department did not give the name, age or hometown of the person who died. The department typically doesn’t release that sort of information because of federal privacy laws. The department ...

ALBANY — With more than 50 mentally-ill residents having died at state-run psychiatric centers from coronavirus infections since the pandemic began, the lack of a firm vaccination mandate for employees of those facilities is generating concerns. Gov. Kathy Hochul said several times in ...

PLATTSBURGH — Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday that 120 new #VaxtoSchool pop-up COVID vaccination sites will take place over the next 12 weeks. Hochul’s office announced the #VaxtoSchool campaign, aimed at increasing vaccination rates among school-aged New Yorkers, earlier this ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is betting on millions more rapid, at-home tests to help curb the latest deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is overloading hospitals and threatening to shutter classrooms around the country. But the tests have already disappeared from pharmacy ...

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the flu cut a much bigger, more lethal swath through the country. But the COVID-19 crisis is by ...