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Source: Should you still be wearing a mask?

Source: Mask mandate to end Thursday for New York businesses, but not for schools – syracuse.com

Assemblyman Billy Jones, “With Governor Kathy Hochul’s announcement today lifting the mask mandates for businesses, I want to thank local business owners and patrons for their patience over the past couple of months.  I agree with both New York State United Teachers and New York State Council of School Superintendents who have called on the […]

Source: Gov. Hochul lifts mask mandate for NY businesses, but schools have to wait. Here’s why

            Senator Dan Stec (R,C-Queensbury) joined several of his Senate Republican colleagues in calling for the Department of Health to conduct an audit into the March 2020 directive to place COVID-positive seniors back into nursing homes. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo and the-DOH Commissioner Howard Zucker authorized this directive and in its aftermath, thousands of death […]

Source: COVID numbers on the decline | News, Sports, Jobs – Adirondack Daily Enterprise

Source: Food Product Labels – What Do They Mean?  – – The Adirondack Almanack

Source: Clinton Co. residents asked to complete health survey | Sun Community News PLATTSBURGH | The Clinton County Health Department and UVM Health Network-CVPH are conducting the 2022 Community Health Survey. 

Begins either Tuesday or Wednesday (Schenectady, NY) Price Chopper/Market 32 stores will be participating in the federal government’s free N-95 mask distribution program. The program, a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 vaccination program will provide free N-95 masks to U.S. citizens to help continue to combat the spread of […]

Source: Change in booster guidelines could help immunocompromised people get fourth dose

Source: Health aides keep people in their homes. But low pay means there aren’t enough of them | NCPR News

Source: The worker shortage is affecting Lake Placid. And tourists are noticing | NCPR News

Source: Business booming, yet not enough staff: Old Forge’s worker shortage conundrum | NCPR News

Source: SUNY testing site updates hours | Sun Community News PLATTSBURGH| The SUNY Plattsburgh Community Testing Site which opened Jan. 7 will have new hours starting Monday, Feb. 7.

Source: Paramedic career paths offer lucrative opportunity | Sun Community News ELIZABETHTOWN | Historically, running ambulance calls has been considered more hobby than vocation, a cog in the network of volunteer first responders that has served much of the natio

Source: Cancer patients called cured a decade after gene therapy – syracuse.com

Source: These Covid rapid tests could give false results, FDA says: Stop using them – syracuse.com

Source: What are people who quit during the pandemic doing now? This woman started her own tattoo studio | NCPR News