Despite rapidly rising hospitalizations, shutdown doesn't appear imminent By Sandra Tan and Keith McShea News Staff Reporters Dec 10, 2020 Dec 10, 2020 Updated Jan 17, 2022 0 Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz. Mark Mulville/Buffalo News Prefer us on Google Learn More Facebook Twitter Bluesky WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save By Sandra Tan and Keith McShea News Staff Reporters The dreaded shutdown of Western New York doesn't appear imminent. But if not now, then when?kAm(:E9 9@DA:E2=:K2E:@? ?F>36CD DE:== 4=:>3:?8 – 3FE ?@E 2E E96 D2>6 G6CE:42= EC2;64E@CJ – 2C62 =6256CD 2?5 52E2 4CF?496CD 42? @?=J @776C D@>6 65F42E65 DA64F=2E:@? 2D E@ H92E H:== 8@ :?E@ E96 DE2E6VD >28:4 7@C>F=2 7@C 564:5:?8 2 C68:@? >:89E C6249 h_T 9@DA:E2= 42A24:EJ H:E9:? 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Sign up! * I understand and agree that registration on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its user agreement and privacy policy. Related to this story Change coming to state's Covid-19 microcluster zones as gyms, salons reopen "Western New York, where we've been focused on for quite some time, we've seen a flattening ... and that's good news," Cuomo said Friday. Lewiston nursing home confirms Covid-19 outbreak, acknowledges 7 deaths The deaths brought the facility's total to 12 since the pandemic began, according to the state Health Department. Erie County covid hospitalizations (updated 12/10) (copy) WNY hospitals offering Covid treatment that Trump received “This treatment isn’t for everybody,” said the chief of Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center's infectious diseases division. At area hospitals, staff working hard but reinforcements hard to come by Before the pandemic, some hospitals found it difficult to recruit new nurses and aides. 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Change coming to state's Covid-19 microcluster zones as gyms, salons reopen "Western New York, where we've been focused on for quite some time, we've seen a flattening ... and that's good news," Cuomo said Friday.
Lewiston nursing home confirms Covid-19 outbreak, acknowledges 7 deaths The deaths brought the facility's total to 12 since the pandemic began, according to the state Health Department.
WNY hospitals offering Covid treatment that Trump received “This treatment isn’t for everybody,” said the chief of Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center's infectious diseases division.
At area hospitals, staff working hard but reinforcements hard to come by Before the pandemic, some hospitals found it difficult to recruit new nurses and aides. Now, the current surge will put even more pressure on workers.
