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At 103, woman battles COVID-19
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Martha Hartman, 103, is fighting off COVID-19 at The Pines at Catskill Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation.
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CATSKILL — Martha Hartman, 103, is what her daughter Kay Mitchell describes as “a tough old bird.” Martha was living at home in Hunter when she celebrated her 100th birthday. She has had her gall bladder removed, undergone two cancer surgeries and suffered a broken hip. She continued to drive after the broken hip until the age of 96, when her vision began to fail, Mitchell said. Then Martha, a resident of The Pines at Catskill Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, fell ill with respiratory problems
and pneumonia for about two and a half weeks, Mitchell said. The Hartman family Wednesday received the news that Martha feared: Her mother tested positive for COVID-19. “When this hit I knew that she was just really, really vulnerable because she has a history of breathing difficulties,” Mitchell said. “I just assumed that if she got it, that would be the end. But I wasn’t counting on Martha being Martha.” Martha seems to be on the road to recovery. “I am hopeful that she is coming out of it,” Mitchell said. In a brief telephone interview, Martha said she felt all right.
She said Kay calls her every night. Mitchell used to visit every day, sometimes twice a day, she said. “I have not been allowed in there for many weeks,” Mitchell said. “Always for dinner I would be there.” Martha’s sons David and Vern Hartman would often visit her on the weekends, Mitchell said. Martha has six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and another daughter, Polly Ann Jones, who lives in Watertown. She is predeceased by her son, Gene. See BATTLES A2
Cuomo bolsters contact tracer army
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo detailed plans for the state to recruit, interview and train thousands of contact tracers for New York’s contact tracing pilot program during a coronavirus briefing in the state Capitol on Thursday.
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ALBANY — New York will need thousands of people to trace COVID-19 infections and New York City subways and buses will be shut down to be disinfected each night to protect essential workers from the pandemic, officials said Thursday.
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Testing, tracing and isolating infected New Yorkers is key to controlling the state’s COVID-19 infection rate, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a coronavirus briefing in the state Capitol. The state conducts about 30,000 COVID-19 tests to reveal several thousand new positive
cases in New York each day. The state reported 4,681 new cases Thursday. New York must have a baseline of 30 contact tracers for every 100,000 people, or between 6,400 and 17,000 tracers statewide depending on projected cases. Officials must interview every infected New Yorker and
trace back who they’ve been in contact with in the last 14 days. Those people must then be contacted and tested after showing symptoms, Cuomo said. “You test and isolate those people so you don’t increase the rate of infection,” the governor said. “The faster you trace, the better. Contact tracing finds
cases.” Former New York City Mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Michael Bloomberg and his company Bloomberg Philanthropies committed $10.5 million April new program. The program See CUOMO A2
C-GCC weighs fall reopening scenarios By Nora Mishanec Columbia-Greene Media
GREENPORT — As Columbia-Greene Community College enters its seventh week of remote learning, administrators are planning for the possibility that courses will remain online next semester. The college is looking at three scenarios for the fall semester, and continuing the current online-only system remains an option, C-GCC President Carlee Drummer said Thursday. The C-GCC campus has been shut down since March 13. After consulting with graduating students, the college postponed commencement exercises until Nov. 28, C-GCC Director Of Marketing and Communications Jaclyn Stevenson said
Thursday. Social distancing measures will likely be in place into the fall, Drummer said. The college is taking a wait-and-see approach. C-GCC could see a return to classroom learning if the ban on in-person classes is lifted, but that scenario would require altering classrooms and placing desks six feet apart, Drummer said. Another option would be to expand the number of hybrid class offerings, which would enable C-GCC to reduce but not eliminate in-person learning. Having more hybrid classes, which combine on-campus and online learning, would reduce the density on campus, Drummer said. See C-GCC A2
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Columbia-Greene Community College Professor Gregg Berninger teaches “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” via YouTube during the COVID-19 shutdown.
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