COVID update December 13 There are 37 new COVID cases in Otsego County, according to the Otsego County Department of Health, including a total of 340 active cases with 10 hospitalizations. No new deaths have been reported. There is a 9.1% positivity rate in the county. Governor Kathy Hochul announced over the weekend that masks will be required in all public places starting today until January 15, 2022.…
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COVID update December 9 There are 51 new cases reported today, according to the Otsego County Department of Health. A total of 384 active cases are in the county with 10 hospitalizations. No new deaths have been reported. Otsego County is in an area of high community transmission. According to the Center for Disease Control and the DOH recommendations, indoor mask wearing is recommended regardless of vaccination status.…
Escaped prisoner injures officer in New Lisbon An escaped inmate is in custody after injuring an officer in New Lisbon on Thursday, according to the Otsego County Sheriff Department. John B. Clark, 27, was being transported to a scheduled court appearance when he fled custody of corrections officers.…
Take precaution, but don’t rush to judgment “Virologists will tell you that predicting how a new virus might evolve is a fool’s errand. Predicting that it will evolve is money in the bank.” – The Economist. Since the genome for Covid-19 was first sequenced in January 2020, there have been 5.6 million sequence variations added to the database. Obviously most variations do not make much difference, but a very few do so spectacularly. The Omicron variant is different than others…
State DOH temporarily halts Fox electives A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital is among the more than 30 hospitals around New York State required to halt certain elective procedures temporarily under an Executive Order issued in November by Governor Kathy Hochul. Citing concerns over capacity strain and emergency Covid-19 bed availability, the Governor’s order encompasses facilities with a staffed bed capacity of less than 10 percent. The state’s Department of Health delivered official word to affected hospitals late in the evening on…
Let’s verb again, like we did last Christmas By Ted Potrikus Do you remember the classic comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes”? It was my daily must-read back when it ran in newspapers; it remains a go-to in its various printed collections or online. My favorite among the strips finds Calvin telling Hobbes this: “I like to verb words.” He goes on: “I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when ‘access’ was a thing? Now it’s something…
Editorial: Timely guidance? New Yorkers learned late December 6 exactly which hospitals around the state would be subject to Governor Kathy Hochul’s Executive Order limiting certain elective surgeries and procedures beginning roughly 36 hours later, on December 9. The order initially exploded out of Albany seemingly moments after South Africa’s first report of Covid-19’s Omicron variant. We recognize and appreciate Governor Hochul’s proactive effort, but there’s a big disconnect at play reminiscent of just about every Covid-19-related Executive Order her…
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A.O. Fox Hospital to postpone elective procedures due to limited capacity Bassett Healthcare announced today that A.O. Fox hospital in Oneonta was placed on a list of hospitals with 90% occupancy and, as a result, will be delaying non-essential procedures for two weeks This move stems from an executive order enacted by the New York State Department of Health. Patients who are affected will be notified. Urgent procedures such as cancer treatment, trauma, and heart surgery will continue to be…
