FROM THE FRONT LINES Crisis Tells Us: Be Prepared! By CHARLES HYMAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I want to thank Richard Sternberg for bringing up the difficult issue of triage. Fortunately, our area has not had to face this type of excruciating decision-making. But we may yet. His “elephant in the room” makes me think of yet another “elephant in the room,” and that is the one of advance directives and healthcare agents. April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day.…
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EDITORIAL Reprinted From This Week’s Hometown Oneonta, Freeman’s Journal ANDREW CUOMO FOR PRESIDENT He’s Ready For White House; Americans Ready For Him Andrew Cuomo for president. Already, he seems presidential, never more than this past Monday in announcing his collaboration with five other Northeast governors in a multi-state council “to restore the economy and get people back to work.” Let’s do it. In the five weeks of New York State’s fight against the coronavirus invasion, the governor’s shown all the…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS Attend Earth Fest Online, Make Movie Poster, Much More By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Keep the little ones – and the big ones too! – from growing restless inside with a photo contest, Earth Fest, a family fun run and more. • Learn to save energy and reduce food waste, and do a scavenger hunt in your own backyard as part of OCCA’s annual Earth Fest, featuring new online webinars and activities every day! Saturday,…
Bassett Researcher Conducts Tests On 3 Anti-COVID Drugs Hydroxychloroquine, Lopinavir, Losartan Explored In Local Lab By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Bassett Healthcare Network is doing original research into finding a cure for COVID-19. “This is an opportunity to have residents of this area participate in a really rigorous and sound clinical trial to get these drugs with the most up-to-date and most recommended method,” said Dr. Daniel Frelich, an infectious disease specialist. The study, dubbed COVID…
Sheriffs, Code Enforcement Investigate COVID-19 Complaints By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – If you see something, Governor Cuomo suggests, say something. “We’ve been contacted about businesses having too many people in the store, people not wearing masks, that sort of thing,” said Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. As part of Cuomo’s executive order, complaints can be lodged by citizens if they see non-essential businesses open, non-emergency private construction work, or gatherings where more than 10 people are…
NYT’s Nate Silver Sees Coronavirus Declining There is increasing evidence that New York City – and Upstate New York – are turning a corner in their efforts to fight back COVID-19, and the timing suggests that the shifts may be a result of social distancing measures, according to Nate Silver of FiveThirty Eight, former New York Times pollster. Whether the state and city have merely flattened the curve to a plateau or actually begin to turn it around is somewhat…
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GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, TUESDAY, 4/14 Pace Of Reopening Key To Ensuring CORONA Doesn’t Get A Rebound GOVERNOR CUOMO AT TODAY’S BRIEFING: “Everybody’s anxious to reopen. … People need to get back to work. … The worst scenario would be if we did all of this, we got that number down, everybody went to extraordinary means and then we go to reopen and we reopen too fast or we reopen and there’s unanticipated consequences and we see that number go up again.”…
Pathfinder Village Aims To Calm, Inspire Residents On Lockdown By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com EDMESTON – Like many people, Laurie enjoys going to her favorite coffee shop – the Pathfinder Village Bakery – in the morning. But with COVID-19 closing down the campus and confining the residents to their homes, the bakery is closed. But her house manager, Jamie Miner, set up a coffee shop on her back porch, complete with a freshly brewed pot and coffee shop…
CLICK HERE FOR TEXT OF LETTER Glimmerglass Festival 2020 ‘Hopeful’ For Summer Season COOPERSTOWN – Though New York State remains under a state of emergency until the end of April, Francesca Zambello, Artistic & Creative Director, Glimmerglass Festival, is trying to stay optimistic that the season will open as scheduled. “We are still hopeful that we will see you this summer,” she wrote in a letter sent earlier this afternoon. With so much unknown at this time, and with all…