Though Rockland is experiencing an expected and seasonally predictable increase in active COVID-19 cases, Rockland’s county executive says numbers are better than anywhere else in New York over the last seven days. The uptick he says has not demonstrated a big increase in hospitalizations, with nearly 17% of hospital beds and 40% of ICU beds available at Good Samaritan and Nyack Hospitals. County Executive Ed Day has encouraged people to get vaccinated and boosted, and wear masks if they want, but has declined to enforce the governor’s mask mandate, preferring instead to maintain the county’s resources on the vaccination effort. Day says the shortage of personnel has even led the county to update its online COVID information dashboard with less frequency…
Governor Kathy Hochul virtually addressed the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Albany Sunday, and encouraged them to get their children and grandchildren vaccinated, boosted, and to wear masks…
Rockland Business Association CEO Al Samuels says while the mask mandate isn’t as potentially damaging to local businesses as lockdowns would be, he acknowledges, we are in a crisis thanks to some selfish people among us…
Nearly 69 percent of all New Yorkers have gotten a complete vaccine series.