Broome County NY

"We need to be ready, and this project is going to be an important tool that we have to address this crisis.”

“When you’re looking at vaccine trials, you’re looking for them to be better than 50 percent effective, so when we’re talking about in the nineties, that’s a highly effective vaccine,” Eder said.

“I think that’s something that we should all work to follow because that just makes good public health sense, but I think that’s one that would be very, very hard to enforce."

According to Boland, many more staff members have fallen ill in recent weeks than in the spring, when the first wave of COVID-19 hit.

Democratic County Executive Jason Garnar and Republican challenger Karl Bernhardsen met in an online forum hosted by the Rotary Club of Binghamton.

The district will need to test around 20 percent of those coming into the schools—including teachers, students and staff—each week.

“I don’t want to wait until after the election to do this, I think we need help now."

“In coordination with this new cluster initiative, I am going to continue to ask people to stay home for these 14 days as well,” Garnar said.

54 new active cases were added to the county's COVID-19 dashboard between Wednesday and Thursday, with 8 people currently hospitalized.

The majority of cases are not driven by college students, either. Garnar said just 21 of the 193 active cases are Binghamton University students.