The first week of 2022 has brought new three new COVID-19-related deaths in Franklin County, two more deaths in Essex County, and hundreds of new cases in both counties. The Essex County Health Department said both people who died this week were vaccinated but had not gotten a booster shot. ...

RAY BROOK — The Federal Corrections Institute at Ray Brook is in the midst of a coronavirus outbreak. The Federal Bureau of Prisons reported 40 inmates and four staff positive for COVID-19 on Friday. The number of positive inmates reported Friday was double the number reported the day ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York is joining a handful of states in requiring health care workers to get a COVID-19 booster shot. Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday that she was expanding on a vaccine mandate she instituted last fall requiring health care workers to get vaccinated because too many ...

Afternoons with Grammy. Birthday parties. Meeting other toddlers at the park. Parents of children too young to be vaccinated are facing difficult choices as an omicron variant-fueled surge in COVID-19 cases makes every encounter seem risky. For Maine business owner Erin Connolly, the most ...

As the Essex County Health Department Monday reported 485 new COVID-19 cases since Dec. 29 — 386 active cases — officials also said they are changing the way residents get isolation and quarantine orders. The measure is needed, they said, to keep up with the massive amount of new orders ...

Both Essex and Franklin counties reported new COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, and Essex County reported more than 100 new cases in the first half of this week. The death in Essex County was a resident of Ticonderoga Elderwood nursing home. The Essex County Health Department said the resident ...