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Coronavirus

Trials may resume this month in New York courts

ALBANY — The administrators of the New York court system are working on a plan to resume some jury trials March 22. Steps are being taken to continue with in-person proceeding in the courthouses even as judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers have yet to be placed into the COVID-19 ...

States easing virus restrictions despite experts’ warnings

MISSION, Kan. — With the U.S. vaccination drive picking up speed and a third formula on the way, states eager to reopen for business are easing coronavirus restrictions despite warnings from health experts that the outbreak is far from over and that moving too quickly could prolong the ...

College president dies of COVID

OLEAN (AP) — St. Bonaventure University President Dennis DePerro died Monday from complications of COVID-19, according to the university. He was 62. DePerro was hospitalized since late December after testing positive for COVID-19 on Christmas Eve. The university said it’s unknown how he ...

Tensions over vaccine equity pit rural against urban America

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Rita Fentress was worried she might get lost as she traveled down the unfamiliar forested, one-lane road in rural Tennessee in search of a coronavirus vaccine. Then the trees cleared and the Hickman County Agricultural Pavilion appeared. The 74-year-old woman wasn’t ...

Remembering the dead on COVID-19 Memorial Day

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake village board has declared today as a COVID-19 Memorial Day, a day to commemorate those who died during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. This follows a grassroots nationwide movement to make March 1 a national day of remembrance. It has been around a year ...

Northen NY vaccine hub works to ensure consistent approach

PLATTSBURGH — About 20% of eligible adults in the seven-county North Country region have received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Wouter Rietsema says. And 8% have received both doses, a figure that has more than doubled since the beginning of this month. - Consistent ...