The Peru Gazette

            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

Source: ‘Coming Soon’ Trudeau House museum under construction | Sun Community News SARANAC LAKE | First floor to interpret broad history of Saranac Lakes region

Source: Towns grapple with cannabis law; Jay, Wilmington to vote in November | Sun Community News AU SABLE FORKS | The Town of Jay announced Thursday, Jan. 27, that it has received enough certified signatures to put the sale of cannabis up to a vote next November.

CVPH program supplies blood, blood products to hospitals across our region   PLATTSBURGH, NY (02/01/2022) –The Adirondack Regional Blood Center, a program of the University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH), is conducting several blood drives open to the community this month and asks all eligible donors to consider donating. Here […]

Source: FEMA helps with funeral expenses for COVID-related deaths | Sun Community News WASHINGTON, D.C. | Deaths must be attributable to COVID-19 either directly or indirectly.

“Like hospitals across the region, CVPH is dramatically short of workers across a range of specialties. That comes as patient volume hit historically high levels, a combination of COVID-19 related illness and more run of the mill procedures that were put off over two years of global disruption. Workers like CVPH lab technician Sally Osborne […]