Herzig, Bliss Frustrated County Still Awaits Vaccine By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com For now, Otsego County is not getting the COVID-19 vaccines it should, according to Mayor Gary Herzig and county board Chairman David Bliss. Both men represent the county on the Mohawk Valley Regional Control Room, which briefs local officials weekly on the state’s COVID-19 response. The county’s not getting “proportionate distribution,” the amount based on its relative population to the rest of the state, Herzig said…
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THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Feb. 11, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE COVID RIPS FOX Tops, Price Chopper Set For Merger Trump 2020 Billboard Going In April Amy Schumer Flies With Local Wings EDITORIAL Local Governments Should Tend Our Roads, Not Our Minds County Board Split On How To React To Capitol Attack FOOD FOR THOUGHT LETTERS MOYNIHAN: To Explain COVID-19, It’s Back To The Future DUNCAN: Let’s Try A Little Tenderness BERKSON: The…
COVID RIPS FOX 97 Ill, 12 Dead At Nursing Home By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com A coronavirus outbreak swept through Fox Nursing Home mid-January, sickening 97 staff and residents, and ultimately killing 12 of the residents. “After more than 10 months with no resident cases, the outbreak occurred suddenly with half of the total cases occurring within a week of onset,” Fox Hospital spokesperson Gabrielle Argo confirmed. The first COVID cases among residents were confirmed on Jan.…
LETTER from ROBERT MOYNIHAN To Explain COVID-19, It’s Back To The Future To the Editor There should be no more name-calling or evasions from one who lost the popular vote in 2016 by three million votes and in 2020 by seven million. His policy: “The Covid will just go away” – complete with a presidential hand signifying bird flight. Instead, national policy is now to be founded on observation and science instead of theories from pre-germ mythologies. Intelligent action instead…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG Working The System, Getting The Shot I had my first COVID-19 vaccination Sunday, Jan. 26. To get an appointment, I went through all the protocols and algorithms that I discussed previously in this column. I was able to find an appointment Sunday in Plattsburgh. A day later I found an appointment for Utica on Feb. 3 and canceled the Plattsburgh appointment and then I kept looking for something closer and sooner. Lucky for me, some close…
LETTER from SAM MORKAL-WILLIAMS College Campuses Opening Again. Are We Sure It’s A Good Idea? To the Editor: This week, Hartwick College began moving students onto campus. SUNY Oneonta will begin the same process on the 22nd. I am sure that many area residents are wondering the same thing that I am: Why are we opening campuses at all? Last semester at SUNY Oneonta can be called nothing but a failure, (although the “Retrospective on Fall 2020” on www.oneonta.edu, through…
VACCINATIONS ARRIVING Obstacles Aplenty On C-19 Shots Bliss Ticks Off Shortcomings By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The struggle to lockdown concrete information and a larger anti-COVID vaccine allotment continues in Otsego County and beyond. “There is not an adequate supply of the vaccine,” David Bliss, county Board of Representatives chair, said Tuesday, Jan. 19. “This is a statewide problem.” According to a list he provided, the problems include: • Demand is higher than the current supply. • Only…
When Will Shots Arrive? Meanwhile, Otsego County People 65 And Older Registering By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Beginning this week, some members of the general public are now eligible to schedule an anti-COVID vaccine appointment. As of Monday, Jan. 11, the state gave the go-ahead to expand vaccine appointments to Phase 1b populations – seniors, first responders, corrections officers, teachers and other school staff; in-person college instructors, childcare workers, public facing grocery store workers, transit workers and individuals…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG COVID Transforming Calls For Better Understanding There is a large amount of concern about this new strain of COVID that just Monday was confirmed to have reached New York State. At this time, I keep hearing that it is more contagious than the strain we are familiar with but not more lethal. What we don’t know, and what we will have to find out, is whether it is as sensitive to the approved vaccines as the…
7th County Resident Succumbs To COVID COOPERSTOWN – A 79-year old county resident has died of COVID-19, marking the seventh such death in the county since March, according to a release sent out by Heidi Bond, Otsego County public health director. The death was not liked to the SUNY Oneonta outbreak, she said. The most recent death prior to this was in August.…