covid-19 testing

The National Federation of the Blind says inaccessibility is keeping millions of Americans from proactively protecting their own health.

Thousands of cars lined the streets leading into Otsiningo Park on Wednesday. County officials had set up a drive-thru site to distribute 10,000 at-home COVID tests.

The governor gave updates on the current mask mandate, hospital capacity and testing, in the midst of a surge in COVID-19 cases across the state.

Cases of the variant were reported in Tompkins County in January and earlier this month.

“We speak with our healthcare partners weekly and we all are seeing a decrease in demand for testing, which is a really good sign."

“Similar to across the rest of the nation and the state, we are certainly experiencing the highest numbers and more crunch for capacity than we’ve been in anytime during this entire pandemic,” Lopatofsky said.

“Most of the inmates are isolated from each other,” Harder added. “They’re not allowed out of their cells. They’re basically quarantined to keep the spread down.”

“They feel like they’re sort of cut off from the outside world right now which is scary when you’re in a situation like that."

“This is a public health crisis and you have cut them off from the outside world.”

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