Booster shot being offered at clinic at Meadows Office Complex in Middlefield STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Otsego County Department of Health is offering a clinic for the COVID booster shot on Friday, Oct. 8 between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. at the Meadows Office Complex in Middlefield. Pre-registration is required. Go to www.otsegocounty.com/departments/d-m/health_department/covid-19_vaccination_clinics.php to register or see if eligible. …
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Bat tests positive for rabies in Oneonta STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com A bet has tested positive for rabies in Oneonta on Wednesday, Sept 22, according to the Otsego County Department of Health. Rabies is fatal once symptoms appear but is treatable post exposure.…
Otsego County tops 100 active COVID cases Staff Report • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com As of Tuesday, Aug. 31, active COVID cases in Otsego County have reached 121 with five hospitalizations, according to the Otsego County Department of Health. The county’s DOH reported 22 new cases Tuesday, which brought Otsego County over 100. The DOH continued to encourage people who have not gotten the vaccine yet to do so as it reduces risk of hospitalization and death. …
Views From Around The State August 12, 2021 From: The Albany Times Union Editorial Board One could almost detect a faint “nyah-nyah” between the lines of last Thursday’s announcement that, now that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lost his sweeping pandemic emergency powers, school districts are on their own when it comes to reopening in September. So there. Health Commissioner Howard Zucker didn’t put it quite that way, of course. Instead, he couched his abdication of duty in more bureaucratic terms,…
Oneonta City School District will hold vaccine clinic STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com A school based COVID-19 vaccination program for students is being established by the Oneonta city School District in partnership with the Otsego County Department of Health. Students ages 12 and older will be able to receive the Pfizer vaccination at no cost. According to a survey organized by the Oneonta school district, at least 200 parents had expressed an interest in participating with the vaccination clinic.…
COVID deaths rise to 61 in Otsego County STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Otsego County reported Monday, May 10, that a 61st resident has died because of the coronavirus. As of Monday afternoon, there are 57 active cases of coronavirus in the county with eight hospitalizations and a 1.1% seven day positivity rate.…
Dreams Park Seeks OK For 2021 Opening With Tests, Reduced Capacity, NY State Asked For Go-Ahead Cooperstown Dreams Park will be submitting plans to the state Department of Health to allow it to field a 2021 youth-baseball season at its Hartwick Seminary campus this summer, it announced today. The plan asks the DOH to take “into consideration camp testing and reduced capacity,” according to the statement from Attorney Garo Gozigian, the company’s local lawyer. Dreams Park said it is awaiting…
DOH Helps To Vaccinate 100s In Single Day, Bond Says By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Otsego Department of Health helped to vaccinate roughly 200 eligible tier 1a and 1b candidates at the Meadows Building on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. According to County Department of Health Director Heidi Bond, they are hoping to roll out additional clinics soon. Those interested in receiving the vaccine should visit: am-i-eligible.covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/…
PROFILE FROM THE FRONT LINES Heidi Bond, General Leads Battle To End Coronavirus Attack By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In the past 20 years, as reports of H1N1, SARS, MARS and other viruses would surface on the news, most of us never gave them a second thought. Not so Heidi Bond, Otsego County’s public health director, and her half-dozen staff members in The Meadows Office Complex in the Town of Middlefield. “Since 2001 – after 911, the…