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Stay Safe, by Rich Shaprio

Vaccine rollout ramps up

Over 5 million first doses and 2.7 million completed series have been administered in New York state since mid-December. In the North Country, 31.7% of the population has received at least one dose of vaccine, statewide 26.7%, in the U.S. 24.9%. The state received 3.5 million doses in the ...

Time for optimism?

6,699,848 vaccine doses have been administered in New York state since mid-December: 4.5 million first doses and 2.3 million completed series. Statewide, 23% of the population has received at least one dose of vaccine. In the North Country, it’s 29%. Over 10 million people are eligible ...

Vaccination progress

5,640,706 doses of vaccine have been administered in New York state since mid-December. That breaks down to 3.7 million first doses and 2 million second doses. Over 10 million people are eligible for vaccination in New York state. Appointments are available at Potsdam and Plattsburgh State ...

Vaccine madness

Over 5 million doses of vaccine have been administered in New York state since mid-December. That breaks down to 3 million first doses and 2 million second doses. Over 10 million people have been deemed eligible to receive the vaccine in New York state, which explains why it is difficult to ...

Better times coming

At the national fatality rate, we would have eight people dead in the village alone. Our country has reached the half-million-victim milestone, almost 100 times the population of Saranac Lake! Fortunately, national and New York state COVID deaths per day continue to decrease. At the ...

There is hope

The national and New York state COVID deaths per day are decreasing. We are through the worst of the holiday-induced surge, and, combined with the vaccination rollout, we will hopefully continue to see improvement. The number of people eligible to receive the vaccine keeps increasing, now ...