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10.05.2021 COVID-19

Governor defends vaccine mandate; local hospitals report high compliance rates

As the state mandated deadline passed last week requiring all health care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, Gov. Kathy Hochul defended the decision as “the right thing to...

10.04.2021 COVID-19

Stony Brook ELIH now scheduling appointments for COVID booster shots

If you’re 65 or older or have illnesses that compromise your immune system or reside in a long-term care facility and have had the initial two Pfizer vaccine inoculations...

08.02.2021 COVID-19

Governor urges local governments to follow CDC guidance on masks, but no mandate coming from state

Any future mask mandates to protect against the spread of COVID-19 appear to be in the hands of local governments. Six days after the Centers for Disease Control and...

07.21.2021 COVID-19

As vaccination rate slows, cases of COVID-19 gradually on uptick

The state of emergency ended. The mask mandate was lifted. And life has returned to as close to normal as before the pandemic started in early 2020. While vaccinations...

06.29.2021 COVID-19

Breakdown of vaccination rates by zip codes shows Southold Town ahead of average

As the race to vaccinate residents against COVID-19 began last December, the available data used to track progress centered largely on the overall state and county figures. Now, a...

06.15.2021 COVID-19

‘Momentous day’ as most COVID restrictions lifted due to state reaching vaccination milestone

In mid-December of 2020, Sandra Lindsay, RN, the director of critical care at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, became the first New Yorker to receive the COVID-19 vaccine...

04.21.2021 COVID-19

Farm workers vaccinated during pop-up at Raphael

A van parked along a North Fork farm field or at one of the area’s winery tasting rooms may seem unlikely places to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, but both...

01.18.2021 Health

Governor says Long Island vaccinating health care workers at slower rate as hospitalizations climb

Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday expressed concern over the speed at which health care workers are being vaccinated, saying the combination of low levels of vaccinated staff and the...

12.18.2020 COVID-19

Another shutdown due to COVID-19 ‘totally avoidable,’ governor says

Can New York avoid another shutdown as a way to limit the spread of COVID-19? Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he’s willing to make that bet. “I believe we can...

09.19.2019 Education

Homeschooling could increase under new vaccine mandate

Danielle Good of Riverhead said last Tuesday that she has loved watching her 7-year-old son come home and tell her about his first few days of second grade at...

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