Governor Hochul thanked health-care workers and held a Covid-19 briefing at Erie County Medical Center on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. The governor said vaccinations, booster shots, masks, and testing are currently what's required in fight against Covid-19 in Buffalo.
New York is considering a booster shot mandate for health care workers, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday, as the state fights a surge of Covid-19 cases driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant that has now been detected in Erie County.
UB researchers said they were not able to pinpoint exactly when the variant arrived in Western New York, but it has likely been circulating in the community for at least a couple weeks.
While the number of workers who lost or are losing their jobs is a small percentage of total workers, every little bit hurts amid a staffing shortage that means hospitals can't operate as many beds – especially during yet another wave of Covid-19 hospitalizations.
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday announced that counties would be given the leeway to enact a test-to-stay program that would enable children who have been exposed to Covid-19 at school to avoid quarantining, expanding what began as a pilot program in Erie County to the entire state.
Governor Hochul thanked health-care workers and held a Covid-19 briefing at Erie County Medical Center on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. The governor said vaccinations, booster shots, masks, and testing are currently what's required in fight against Covid-19 in Buffalo.
