As New York launched a new strategic plan for combating what is expected to be a rough COVID-19 winter, Rockland lost four more to the pandemic, bringing the total to 699 fatalities. In his daily press briefing yesterday, governor Andrew Cuomo said the state’s new strategic plan has five components, including adding the number of hospitalizations and hospital capacity to the microcluster strategy…
The state’s COVID Task Force, working with global public health experts, local governments and others, devised the plan that also would increase testing resources, keep schools open safely, seek to prevent viral spread from small gatherings, and establish a safe vaccination program.