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Coronavirus

New York officials push for more COVID-19 vaccine supplies

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s effort to speed up coronavirus inoculations is increasingly colliding with a lack of vaccine. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that the city will run out of first doses of COVID-19 vaccine sometime Thursday without fresh supplies. “If we ...

Union: Prison apathetic about COVID

RAY BROOK — The largest spike in COVID-19 cases among inmates and staff at the Federal Corrections Institute at Ray Brook was never reported by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, according to a union president for corrections officers at the facility. He said the virus spiked after the BOP ...

Getting the job done

The North Country region has been allotted 25,925 coronavirus vaccine doses since mid-December. Most of those doses — about 81% — had already been administered as of Monday. That places this seven-county region ahead of all but one other region, the Southern Tier, for the highest ...

Mass vaccination site opens in Plattsburgh

PLATTSBURGH — With the aim of making New York the first COVID-19-free state in the country, a series of vaccination centers opened statewide Monday, including one in Plattsburgh. “That certainly is a goal I support, and this center will go a long way toward making that happen,” Clinton ...

Shots administered at SUNY Potsdam

POTSDAM — Hundreds of COVID-19 shots were administered at SUNY Potsdam’s Maxcy Hall on Monday morning, only hours after the state opened the facility as one of two mass vaccination sites in the North Country. The site is drastically increasing vaccine dispersal to the Phase 1B category ...

COs sue state over sick time

The union representing New York’s corrections officers has filed suit in state Supreme Court against two state departments alleging mandatory paid sick leave was denied during the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis. Filed Friday in Albany County, the suit names the Department of ...