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Officials have announced that the Wheatland-Chili Central School District have moved to remote learning after finding out that a staff member working in the transportation building has tested positive for the coronavirus. The staff member is in isolation and a few other members are taking quarantine precautions per contact tracing recommendations. The transportation department is […]
New York City’s 7 day COVID-19 average hit 3% positive testing rate threshold, so all students will be switching back to remote learning. On Wednesday, a letter was sent from New York City School chancellor Richard Carranza to the families of the students in the country’s largest school district. “Given recent increases in transmission, we […]
For the first time in 8 days, Monroe County’s COVID-19 yellow zone is below 4% positivity. This is a really good sign, as we were on track to become upgraded to an orange zone by Albany. Monroe County’s current micro-cluster positivity rate is at 3.68 %. This news comes after the 14 day re evaluation […]
Vaccines do not work unless enough people get them, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said recently. That was a headline that I immediately had to look into, just by the SOUND of it. News is really amazing these days. There is a challenge ahead, he said, due […]
Since Monroe County has been updated to a yellow zone, a few school districts have begun testing their students and staff for COVID-19 starting Monday. The regulations state that they have to test 20% of people in each building. Every one of the 603 tests that Webster schools administered on Monday came back negative. In […]
The Hall of Fame coach of Syracuse Men’s Basketball Jim Boeheim has tested positive for COVID-19. He shared the news on social media. I wanted to share the following statement from me: pic.twitter.com/cwop38MhyN — Jim Boeheim (@therealboeheim) November 15, 2020 Boeheim will immediately began his isolation period at home. Syracuse is set to open the […]
Doctor Anthony Facui had to be blunt with the American people when it comes to the 2nd wave of the Coronavirus hitting the states. Dr. Fauci said during a press conference he talked to some of his colleagues from the UK and they’re pretty much having the same issue when it comes to the spread […]
The COVID-19 rates in the Dakotas are the worst in the world according to USA Today. After declining to cancel their state fair and bringing hundreds of thousands of visitors to a motorsports rally this summer, South Dakota’s hospitals are filling up and the COVID-19 death rate is one of the highest in the world. […]
Last week, the Wheatland-Chili School district confirmed that a middle / high school student tested positive for COVID-19. According to officials, the student did not contract the virus on school grounds and the student will not be returning to campus until they test negative and the Monroe County Department of Public Health says its okay. […]
Strong Memorial Hospital is almost at 100% capacity due to the rising infection rates of COVID-19. With more cases in three days than the entire month of September, beds are filling up at an exponential rate. Hospitalizations in general have risen by more than 100% in the past 19 days as well. “The number of […]