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Nursing home surge raises alarm
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Greene County used all of its COVID-19 testing kits last week and has asked for 1,000 more, Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, said. Greene County planned to deploy the 100 kits in nursing homes throughout the county when a resident at The Pines at Catskill Center Nursing and Rehabilitation tested positive Friday. The county public health department tested 89 people
at the facility, Linger said. “As of Saturday night there were only 10 [tests] left,” he said. Testing was also performed at Home Sweet Home in Athens, Linger said, adding that he was only aware of positive patients at The Pines. Of the 89 tests performed at The Pines, 17 residents and nine staff members tested positive, Linger said, adding that the health department was waiting on one more test result. “I don’t believe all residents
and all [at The Pines] have been tested,” he said. “We had to use the tests we had in the smartest way. The state Department of Health does support us in testing our other facilities, we just have to get the tests to do it.” Calls to The Pines were directed to Genevieve Worthington of National HealthCare Associates, which owns and operates The Pines. Worthington could not be immediately reached for comment. “As of See HOME A8
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Pine Haven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Philmont.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at a COVID-19 briefing in the state Capitol on Monday afternoon.
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ALBANY — Six states, including New York, announced an 18-person council Monday to develop a coordinated approach to slowly reopen the economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and govs. Phil Murphy, D-N.J.; Ned Lamont, DConn.; Tom Wolf, D-Pa.; John Carney, D-Del.; and Gina Raimondo, D-R.I.; will name a leading health official, head of economic development and each governor’s chief of staff to the task force. Interconnecting highways and
interstates could serve as a COVID-19 corridor if different social-distancing guidelines are in effect across state lines, the governors said in a joint press call Monday afternoon. The coalition was comprised of the six states as of Monday, but other Northeastern states are welcome to
join, Cuomo said. The task force will gradually lift stay-at-home orders by developing a joint public health and economic development strategy. “You can’t do one without the other,” Cuomo said Monday afternoon See FUTURE A8
Officials take precautions at Bliss, Hop-o-Nose By Abby Hoover and Nora Mishanec Columbia-Greene Media
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The Hop-O-Nose development in Catskill.
With two area nursing homes battling COVID-19 outbreaks among residents, housing officials say they are taking extra precautions to prevent similar outbreaks at public housing facilities. There have been no positive cases of coronavirus at Bliss Towers or Columbia Apartments in Hudson or at Hopo-Nose in Catskill, said Tim Mattice, executive director of the Hudson Housing Authority and interim executive director of the Catskill Housing
Authority. “Fortunately, we are very lucky in the sense that we haven’t had any issues to date,” Mattice said on Monday. “I think that’s because of quick response that the board and the administration took as soon as this coronavirus outbreak really started to pick up momentum.” Ten Hudson residents have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Columbia County Department of Health. None of those positive cases are at Bliss Towers, Mattice said.
Greene County has 67 positive cases, according to the Greene County Public Health website, which did not specify how many of those cases are in Catskill. Residents of high-density living facilities, such as nursing homes and public housing complexes, are at greater risk for COVID-19 transmission, according to state health officials. Bliss Towers residents need support during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hudson Mayoral Aide Michael Chameides said.
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