Vaccine

Jocelyn R. of Monroe County is among others the first-round winners for the state’s ‘Vaccinate, Educate, Graduate’ vaccine incentive program. This new incentive program allows for parents and guardians of ages 5-11 to take their child to receive their first COVID-19 vaccine dose by December 19 in order to be entered into a drawing for […]

If you have any plans to travel to Buffalo, don’t forget to bring your mask. Starting today, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz has reinstated a mask mandate for all indoor public locations in the county. This is in hopes to combat the spread of COVID-19 since rates continue to rise in WNY and hospital capacity […]

As of today, Strong Memorial Hospital could see hundreds of resignations due to the fact that religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate ends, and everyone must be vaccinated against COVID-19. According to data from Monday morning, Less than 300 workers with direct patient contact remained unvaccinated. Kathy Parrinello, chief operating officer for UR Medicine […]

An employee at a New Jersey Starbucks may have exposed thousands of customers to hepatitis A  According to the Camden County health department that the coffee shop was shutdown until all employees are vaccinated and any customers that had to visit the store between November 4th through November 13th are being told to go get the […]

The weekend, the Finger Lakes vaccine hub will be holding a series of COVID-19 vaccine clinics for children aged 5-11. Here is the following schedule. Saturday: 9 am. to 2:45 pm at 112 Greece Ridge Center Drive, Greece. All children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Make an appointment online. 10 am to […]

It has been a journey of shortage of healthcare workers, and now that might even get worse. As of next Monday, November 22nd, New York State says all healthcare workers should be vaccinated and religious exemptions will no longer be allowed. According to CEO Michael Stapleton at Thompson Health, this change might make things even […]

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo might be saying bye to the millions of dollars he made from the pandemic after the New York State Ethics Board voted to revoke its authorization for the book. According to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the board has accused Cuomo of basically receiving approval under false pretenses, which include […]

During a briefing yesterday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul blamed the disruption of a second consecutive Thanksgiving on vaccine “holdouts,” and advised that we should “really should be avoiding large gatherings in indoor spaces” once again this year. At the briefing, Governor Hochul stated: “We all went through this anxiety a year ago. We thought […]

Just a friendly reminder as COVID-19 cases are on the rise in Monroe County make sure you are washing your hands! Not only washing your hands but masking up and when you are in large crowds especially indoors to try to social distance if you can. Over the past weekend, there were a total of […]

Now that the COVID-19 vaccine is available for ages 5 and up, yesterday Governor Kathy Hochul announced that ten of New York State’s mass vaccination sites will now be administering COVID-19 vaccines to newly eligible 5-to-11-year-old children. Here are the following vaccination sites: The Great New York State Fair – Art and Home Center, Syracuse […]