Rockland County’s Health Commissioner is sounding the alarm on the rising number of COVID cases in the county. In a statement yesterday afternoon, Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert urged all residents – vaccinated and unvaccinated – to protect themselves from the current surge of COVID-19 by wearing a mask that fully covers their nose and mouth in all indoor public spaces and when gathering with people who do not live in your home. On Friday, Rockland County Executive Ed Day told “The Morning Show” the county’s distributed KN-95 masks to Rockland’s five towns…
In her daily COVID press conference yesterday, New York governor Kathy Hochul said hospital capacity is a concern upstate where vaccination rates aren’t what they should be, particularly in the Finger Lakes, Central New York, and Mohawk Valley regions of the state, while that’s not yet an issue downstate, where the hospitals are helping with upstate overflow…
For additional COVID-19 protection, Dr. Ruppert encourages those who have been vaccinated already to get their booster shot as soon as you are eligible. For unvaccinated children 5 and older, she says get fully vaccinated now.