Only One COVID Case Left Locally By ELIZABETH COOPERS • Special To AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Just one case. That’s where Otsego County’s COVID-19 numbers are right now. The Tuesday, May 5, data from the county Health Department showed, for the first time, no new cases for the past five days. Of the 62 total cases found in the county since March 23, 57 had recovered and four had succumbed to the virus. The one remaining patient is hospitalized. County Public…
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Editorial COVID-19 War Not Over, But Let’s Take Victory Lap Let’s take a victory lap. As of Monday, May 4, the coronavirus threat in Otsego County had been reduced to one case. One case in the whole county. It’s a battle won, not the war. Testing for the coronavirus identified 62 positive infections once symptoms appeared, through the Bassett Hospital hotline (547-5555) and other means. In all likelihood, though, there is still coronavirus in our neighborhoods. Testing for antigens, which…
Rent-Relief Program Launched By County COOPERSTOWN – The county board is implementing a $200,000 COVID-19 Emergency Rental Relief Program to help renters facing financial hardship from layoff, reduced hours or the disappearance of season jobs, Otsego Rural Housing Assistance Inc. announced this afternoon. The program will provide rental payments for three consecutive months directly to landlords on behalf of eligible households. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Opening Will Take Until Mid-July On Sunday, April 26, Governor Cuomo outlined the general plan for re-opening the Upstate economy at his daily briefing. A front-page article in this week’s Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta outlines what he said. There are a number of conditions to the various phases of the opening. I will explain how they might affect us in Otsego County. NY PAUSE lasts at least until May 15. Then “phase one”…
FROM THE GOVERNOR Construction, Factories Can Start Re-Opening Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Governor Cuomo’s daily briefing from Sunday, April 26, outlining the plan to return to “The New Normal.” 1) Today I outlined a phased plan to safely reopen New York at the appropriate time, taking a regional approach. Phase one will be to reopen low-risk construction and manufacturing businesses in parts of the state that have experienced a 14-day decline in the hospitalization rate. Phase two…
EDITORIAL With Facts As Guide, Let’s Start Reopening As the headline has it, that’s what Governor Cuomo is doing. And he’s convincing. When on April 16, Cuomo announced he was extending NY PAUSE from April 29 to May 15, most of us probably thought that it would then be extended to the end of May, then mid-June, and so on. Upstaters, given the daily reports of New York City’s spiraling death code, were in that frame of mind. So it…
Seward: Prayers Helped Through COVID-19 Scare By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – The coronavirus came on bit by bit. “In late March, I got a cough, a hacking cough,” said state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, now recuperating at home from a narrow escape from COVID-19. “I didn’t think a lot about it.” Then, “I started feeling quite fatigued and lethargic.” Also suffering from a second cancer bout – the first was in 2016 – he went to…
With Elective Surgery, Bassett Normalizing By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As COVID-19 cases slow and the virus appears more contained, Bassett Hospital is beginning to start the process of returning to a new version of normalcy. “We realized that things that could be put off for a few weeks can no longer be deferred,” said Dr. William LeCates, hospital president. “What was elective for a week or two is often not for two to three months.”…
3 More Cases Found; One Person Recovers COOPERSTOWN – Three more cases of COVID-19 surfaced overnight, county Public Health Director Heidi Bond reported a few minutes ago, bringing the total Otsego County cases to 61. Overnight, one more person recovered from the illness, raising recoveries from 45 to 46. Three remain hospitalized, same as yesterday. And the reported deaths remain at four.…
Future For Oneonta Foundation Offers Mini-Grants To Non-Profits ONEONTA – Citing the “unprecedented” COVID-19 crisis, the Future for Oneonta Foundation has opened applications for mini-grants to non-profits who have been impacted by the shutdowns. “It is our hope to help the Oneonta community through this most difficult time,” the foundation said in a press release sent this evening.…