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"Rensselaer County reports two new deaths at senior care centers in Sunday coronavirus update"


by: Johan Sheridan

Posted: May 3, 2020 / 08:37 PM EDT / Updated: May 3, 2020 / 08:37 PM EDT

TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — With two new deaths due to the coronavirus pandemic, Rensselaer County reports on Sunday that it has lost 23 residents in total.

The two deaths reported on Sunday are an 85-year-old man who lived at the Diamond Hill adult care facility in Schaghticoke, and a 95-year old man residing at the Eddy Memorial Geriatric Center in Troy.

All told, 14 of the County’s 23 coronavirus deaths were Diamond Hill Residents.

The positive test results for 85-year-old was confirmed after his death.

There are also nine other new positive cases of coronavirus in Rensselaer County:

• A 54-year-old Troy woman

• A 42-year-old Troy woman

• A 23-year-old Troy man

• A 26-year-old Stephentown man

• A 23-year-old Troy woman

• A 25-year-old Rensselaer woman

• A 61-year-old Troy woman

• A 20-year-old Troy woman

• A 22-year-old Troy woman

The county did not report any new recovery numbers.

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"Rensselaer County coronavirus update May 4"


by: Sarah Darmanjian

Posted: May 4, 2020 / 05:27 PM EDT / Updated: May 4, 2020 / 07:04 PM EDT

TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10)- More than 3,000 Rensselaer County residents have been tested for the coronavirus the county said in an update Monday.

County Executive Steve McLaughlin said to expect the number of confirmed cases to continue to rise as additional testing continues.

There have been 350 total cases, with 194 fully recovered.

There are currently six county residents in the hospital, one of which is in the ICU.

The county is reminding those who do get tested at a mobile site to not go to work until they have received their results.

McLaughlin emphasized the need to reopen the county and expressed concern over meeting the state metrics for reopening.

He also says the county has reached out to the governor’s office and the health commissioner about moving COVID-19 patients from nursing homes to prevent widespread infection.

Mobile testing will begin Tuesday at the County Building in downtown Troy.

Residents who want to be tested must make an appointment by calling 518-465-4771.

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"Cuomo defends nursing home response amid growing death toll at care facilities"


by Julia Ritchey (Reporter)

May 06, 2020

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is defending his administration’s policies governing nursing homes as the state reports more coronavirus deaths at long-term care facilities.

“Everybody wants to point at the nursing homes now."

"We knew the nursing homes were going to be target."

"And whatever we do they will be a target," he said after repeated questions at his Tuesday coronavirus briefing.

His remarks came just hours after the state released new numbers showing an additional 1,700 deaths at nursing homes across the state.

More than 4,800 New Yorkers in nursing homes have died from the coronavirus since March 1.


Those numbers could be even higher because the state doesn’t include patients who were transferred to hospitals and later died.

The Glens Falls area is dealing with a particularly dangerous outbreak in nursing homes.

Seventeen of Warren County’s 19 deaths due to COVID-19 were residents of senior care facilities.

Jim Malatras, president of SUNY Empire and a member of the governor’s coronavirus task force, says the state has moved quickly to mitigate the problem.

“We’ve had really aggressive measures in New York State," he said during Cuomo's briefing.

"No visitors from the outside, which is a pretty aggressive measure 12-hour temperature checks on all staff; PPE requirements for all staff.”

Still, even with these measures, Gov. Cuomo acknowledged that it’s not difficult for a staff member to bring the virus into a facility.

“All it takes is one person to bring that virus in there," he said.

"And you do everything you can, but at the same time, you can’t do everything.”

He says they’re doing an investigation with the attorney general to look into the nursing home outbreaks and if — and how — the state could improve its response.

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"Rensselaer County reports 8 new coronavirus cases"


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Created: May 06, 2020 09:11 AM

In Rensselaer County, there are eight new confirmed cases bringing the total to 358.

No new deaths were reported.

The death toll remains at 23.

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"Rensselaer County coronavirus update"


Posted: May 7, 2020 / 05:50 PM EDT / Updated: May 7, 2020 / 05:50 PM EDT

RENSSELAER COUNTY (NEWS10) – Officials said Thursday that there have been 385 accumulative cases since testing began, up ten cases from Wednesday.

Of those 385 cases, 222 people have made a full recovery.

There are 12 people being treated in the hospital, with two of those cases in the ICU.

There have been 23 COVID-19 related deaths in the county, 14 of those deaths were residents of the Diamond Hill adult care facility in Schaghticoke.

Officials also said Thursday a third employee at the Van Rensselaer Manor has tested positive.

The Cohoes resident last worked in the facility May 1.

The new ten new cases include:

• a 73-year-old male resident of the Diamond Hill adult care facility

• a 67-year-old male resident of the Diamond Hill adult care facility

• a 33-year-old Troy woman

• a 35-year-old Hoosick man

• a 32-year-old East Greenbush man

• a 34-year-old Grafton man

• a 38-year-old Troy woman

• a 41-year-old Troy woman

• a 24-year-old Stephentown woman

• a one-year-old Rensselaer girl

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"State antibody testing results murky as officials decline to release raw data - Questions remain about effectiveness and utility of tests as local leaders are left in the dark"

Cayla Harris and Amanda Fries, Albany, New York Times Union

May 7, 2020 | Updated: May 7, 2020 3:02 p.m.

ALBANY — New York has tested more than 1 million people for COVID-19, sharing detailed data about where the cases originated and who has been infected.

But when it comes to antibody testing, the state's latest endeavor to track the spread of the virus, officials have refused to release raw data on the samples collected.

They have tested more than 15,000 people for antibodies and reported results in percentages, but the methodology is unclear and comes with so many caveats that some medical experts and local government officials are questioning the utility of the results.


The state's lack of transparency and failure to coordinate with local officials on its antibody testing efforts has frustrated community leaders who believe the data, and how it’s being collected, could help inform their respective counties on the spread of the coronavirus, and also guide how some areas could move forward with a phased reopening of local economies.

The state has only reported results to individual counties in a few instances, instead reporting results on a regional basis through Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s daily coronavirus briefings.

“We don’t know how many residents were tested."

"We don’t know all of those results."

"We know a few, but we don’t know all of them,” said Rich Crist, Rensselaer County's operations director.


“We’d certainly like to see the results."

"One of the things about testing – it gets people who need treatment treated."

"It also helps map the road back to life.”

The state first announced its antibody testing plan about two weeks ago, when Cuomo said that New York would randomly test 3,000 New Yorkers for antibodies at grocery stores across the state.

The effort sought to identify how many individuals had contracted the virus and recovered from it, producing antibodies that may make them immune to the illness.

His top aide, Melissa DeRosa, said the testing would begin the next day.

But the testing began the same day Cuomo announced it, and patrons at some grocery stores in upstate New York passed by neon-yellow signs announcing “NYS DOH antibody screening: Find out if you have been exposed here!”

Shoppers were tested that Sunday at a supermarket in Schenectady County, where the local government had no idea testing would begin that day – or at all – and released a statement to the media that evening saying so.

In the days since, the state has not communicated the results of the tests to the county, and it has not coordinated testing sites with local officials, said county spokeswoman Erin Roberts.

She declined to comment on the consequences of not having access to the data, saying only: “Schenectady County appreciates any and all testing opportunities made available to our residents.”


Erin Silk, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Health, said the testing “is being performed by the state with notice to local counties.”

She repeatedly declined to say why the state is declining to release by-county data, referring instead to the governor’s plan to reopen the economy in regions.

She declined to say if there are counties where no one has been tested for antibodies.


Fulton County Public Health Director Laurel Headwell said she cannot provide answers to residents looking for details on how to access the tests, which occurred to some extent in the county, though officials do not have the full scope of results.

“I don’t know where they had the testing done or how they were able to get tested, so that information is very limited to us as a county,” she said.

“It just puts you in that hard spot of, ‘What do we do, and what do we tell our people in Fulton County?’”

The latest results, reported on Saturday, indicate that about 12.3 percent of the state population has COVID-19 antibodies.

That’s a slight drop from the first two surveys, which had estimated 13.9, and then 14.9, percent, with smaller sample sizes.

New York City, the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, reported the highest positive test results at 19.9 percent of the population.


Western New York came in second, with 6 percent of participants testing positive.

The Capital District reported a 2.2 percent positive rate.

While the state did not provide data to Albany, Schenectady or Rensselaer counties, officials told local health leaders in Saratoga County that it had conducted 346 tests, 27 of which came back positive – roughly 7.8 percent, Saratoga County Director of Public Health Catherine Duncan said.

The state also reported weighted results for sex, age and race, though officials have refused to provide the number of individuals that have been tested, and their results, for each group.

For weeks, Cuomo touted antibody testing as key to reopening the economy and said results could allow some individuals to return to work sooner.

More recently, antibody testing has become a backburner item as officials question whether the results tell much more than how the virus has spread in the weeks when diagnostic testing was not yet up to scale.

"There was an initial thought that if you had gotten the virus and you had the antibodies that you would be immune to another infection," Cuomo said during a press briefing Wednesday.

"I think that's now being questioned."

Whether antibodies provide immunity remains unclear to scientists and the World Health Organization has said there has been no conclusive evidence that would indicate a person cannot fall ill with the coronavirus again after contracting and recovering from it.

State Department of Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said Wednesday that there are ongoing tests to see whether antibodies do provide immunity, and if so, for how long.

It's unclear what role antibody tests – which the state continues to ramp up, especially among health care workers – now play in Cuomo's reopening strategy.

A spokesman for the governor's office said antibody data continues to inform the state's public health response; meanwhile, in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday that the city will test 140,000 people for antibodies in the next month.

Experts also caution that testing hasn’t been sufficiently clinically validated and could show false positives by detecting antibodies present from exposure to other viruses.

“Antibody testing in general allows people to see if they’ve been in contact with the COVID virus,” said Rebecca Kaufman, the director of Broome County’s health department.

“The caveat to that is, at this point, we are not sure what it means toward their immunity, so even if you test positive … we are not positive if that means you are immune.”


Broome County was told ahead of time that the state would test about 100 people at two local grocery stores, Kaufman said, but officials have not been notified of the results.

In Rensselaer County, Crist said they have similar questions and concerns on immunity as well as whether there are other strains of the virus.

“I think there is a lot we don’t know about this disease, and antibody testing will probably give us a window into the precursors of COVID-19,” he said.


The effectiveness of the tests themselves is also an outstanding question, with accuracy rates varying depending on the type of test.

Silk said the state’s antibody tests are 97 percent accurate.

Natasha Chida, an associate professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University, said there is only one strain of COVID-19, but uncertainty with current antibody tests at this time makes results unreliable.

"For that reason, I don't think it’s helpful to release (results) to the public," Chida said.

"I think there is a lot of testing that’s being developed, so I'm hopeful that we will have a good test soon."

Antibody testing is largely a state-only endeavor, with most counties taking a backseat as the state Department of Health samples people.

If a person calls their local health department in search of an antibody test, most health officials will refer them to their primary care provider, as some private practices also conduct tests.

In the random antibody tests conducted by the state health department, participants have been notified of their results in about a week, most receiving the information through text messages.

Chida said it's important for state and local health departments to work together when it comes to the testing, but data from testing at this point must be handled with care.

"I think it could give people a false sense of security," she said.

"They may think they’re immune and think they don’t have to social distance and avoid large groups."

"Because it’s not reliable, people may interpret it incorrectly, and that could have some detriments to public health measures."

Erie County has been an exception to the state-centered response, conducting its own tests through the county Public Health Lab.

Test results on both a local and state level are reported through ECLRS, a state electronic reporting system for lab results, county health department spokeswoman Kara Kane said.

For the week ending on May 2, a total of 8,223 residents had been tested for antibodies, with 679 coming back positive, for a return rate of 8.3 percent, she said.

With the county taking testing into its own hands, increased capacity has allowed government officials to offer more tests to the general public – unlike the state, which has generally limited tests to frontline workers and randomly sampled individuals.

Late last week, Erie began a pilot program to test county employees for antibodies, which has helped officials fine-tune scheduling, testing and reporting processes, Kane said.

“As soon as we have sufficient materials and supplies for these blood draws/sample collections, we will announce our schedule of testing locations throughout Erie County and the process for Erie County residents to make an appointment,” she said.

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"Rensselaer County coronavirus update, one new death reported"


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Posted: May 8, 2020 / 05:52 PM EDT / Updated: May 8, 2020 / 05:52 PM EDT

RENSSELAER COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) In the update released by officials on Friday they say that one person has died from COVID-19 bringing the total county deaths to 24.

The 81-year-old woman was a resident of the Eddy Adult Care Facility in Troy.

The county reported 12 new cases bring the total of confirmed cases to 397.

Of those 397 cases, 229 people have made a full recovery.

As of Friday, seven people are being treated in the hospital, two of those patients are in the ICU.

The 12 new cases involve:

• a 92-year-old female resident at the Diamond Hill adult care facility

• an 84-year-old male resident at the Diamond Hill adult care facility

• a 90-year-female at the Diamond Hill adult care facility

• a 63-year-old East Greenbush woman

• a 43-year-old Troy man

• a 55-year-old Pittstown woman

• a one-year-old Troy boy

• a five-year-old Troy boy

• a 23-year-old Troy woman

• a 21-year-old North Greenbush woman

• a 28-year-old Troy woman

• a 40-year-old Schaghticoke woman

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THE NEW YORK POST

"Needed: Truly independent probe of coronavirus devastation in NY nursing homes"


By Post Editorial Board

May 9, 2020 | 8:45pm

Calls are rising for an independent investigation of the Cuomo administration’s handling of nursing homes amid the coronavirus crisis — and rightly so.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s own investigation, which he handpicked protégé Letitia James to lead, plainly won’t get to the bottom of many key issues: The gov and his team won’t even admit that forcing facilities to take in COVID-positive patients was a mistake.


That mandate is still in effect.

Back on March 10, Cuomo bragged of how the state was protecting residents of New York’s 1,100 nursing homes and adult-care facilities.

“You see that in the 22 deaths in Washington compared to New York with no deaths,” he said.

“Right?"

"Same number of cases, look how much higher Washington is."

"Because it’s about senior citizens.”

Yes, the elderly are the most virus-vulnerable, with those aged 60 and up accounting for 85 percent of Empire State corona deaths.

But Cuomo didn’t protect them: Washington state has fewer than 1,000 coronavirus deaths total, while New York lost 5,000 lives in nursing and adult-care homes alone.

And, two weeks after Cuomo’s big brag, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker ordered nursing homes to take in corona-positive patients.

Neither Zucker nor Cuomo explained that March 25 mandate.


The gov insists it’s in keeping with federal guidelines, yet they call for no such regulation.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised nursing homes: “Keep COVID-19 from entering your facility.”

How did his team even think up the rule?

Did the politically potent hospital lobby push for it?

The gov is disingenuous at best when he claims homes need merely tell the Health Department if they can’t handle coronavirus patients.


Donny Tuchman, CEO of Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill Health Center, asked about transferring out some of his COVID-positive patients back on April 10.

More than 50 of his residents have died.

Zucker’s order not only forbids nursing homes from rejecting the infected — it doesn’t even let them require testing for the disease before admission.

Only in late April, a month after the “must accept” order, did the state begin reaching out to check on homes’ ability to administer tests, officials in several counties told The Post.

Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan offered to pick test kits up in Albany himself — and never heard back.

The James investigation will focus on whether homes are “following the rules” — not on those deadly rules themselves.

An independent probe is a must.

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THE SARATOGIAN

"Rensselaer County reports 17 new COVID-19 cases at Diamond Hill nursing facility"


By Nicholas Buonanno nbuonanno@medianewsgroup.com @NickBuonanno on Twitter

May 9, 2020

RENSSELAER COUNTY, N.Y. — The county saw a big increase in COVID-19 cases on Saturday, with a majority of them being from the Diamond Hill adult care facility in Schaghticoke.

Twenty-four new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed to the Rensselaer County Health Department, it was announced Saturday afternoon.

The county now has 421 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Along with the 24 new cases, the county announced the death of a 91-year-old female at the Eddy Memorial Geriatric adult care home in Troy.

The county has now had 25 deaths of residents from COVID-19, with 17 of those deaths occurring at nursing homes.

The 24 newly confirmed cases include 17 new cases at the Diamond Hill adult care facility.

The county noted a number of the new confirmed cases at Diamond Hill came about because of testing by the state, following several requests by the county for state review of the private care facility.

There have been 58 confirmed cases at Diamond Hill.

There is a hope that earlier diagnostic testing as requested by the county and performed by the state will help aid in patient care and treatment efforts.

Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin said he still would like the state to relocate residents at Diamond Hill, who are positive be moved to another secure medical facility.

"The need for action by the state at Diamond Hill remains very real and very pressing," McLaughlin said.

The new cases include:

• A new case involving a 74-year-old male resident at the Diamond Hill adult care facility.

• A new case involving a 91-year-old female resident at the Diamond Hill facility.

• A new case involving a 77-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving a 94-year-old female resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving an 81-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving a 58-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving a 73-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving a 79-year-old female resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving a 91-year-old resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving a 92-year-old female resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving a 100-year-old resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving a 73-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving a 74-year-old female resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving a 76-year-old female resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving a 73-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving a 78-year-old resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving an 86-year-old female resident at Diamond Hill.

• A new case involving a 17-year-old Schaghticoke girl.

• A new case involving a 24-year-old Pittstown woman.

• A new case involving a 57-year-old Troy man.

• A new case involving a 37-year-old Brunswick man.

• A new case involving a 56-year-old Troy man.

• A new case involving a 22-year-old Troy man.

• A new case involving a 52-year-old Schodack man.

There are four residents hospitalized, and two in ICU.

There are over 600 residents in monitor quarantine.

There have been 4,127 tests administered to residents.

Also on Saturday, the county added six cases as cleared for recovery, bringing the total of cleared cases to 235.

Whitney Young will return to the Rensselaer City Hall on Thursday from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., and Friday at the Whitney Young location in Lansingburgh, also from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

There will also be a testing site operated by Whitney Young next Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.

To make an appointment, call 518-465-4771.

Testing at the HVCC site resumes Monday, continuing through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

People can make appointments by calling 1-800-245-4245, although appointments are not necessary.

"We welcome a second week of testing, and want residents who believe they need to be tested to take advantage of these opportunities," McLaughlin said.

"We believe we tested over 175 residents during these four testing sessions [this past week], and recognize those tests as important information in beating COVID-19 and charting a path back to normal life," McLaughlin said.

A breakdown of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Rensselaer County by municipality and age group is provided.

Breakdown by municipality:

Troy - 133

East Greenbush - 47

North Greenbush - 44

Brunswick - 20

Rensselaer - 23

Hoosick - 7

Sand Lake - 12

Nassau - 7

Schodack - 30

Schaghticoke - 70*

Petersburgh - 3

Pittstown - 9

Poestenkill - 3

Stephentown - 8

Berlin - 3

Grafton - 2

* (Please note, for Schaghticoke, numbers include 58 confirmed cases of residents at Diamond Hill adult care home)

(Also note, there has been one confirmed case that moved from Troy to East Greenbush, and a correction in totals for towns of Sand Lake and Nassau)

Breakdown by age:

Teenagers and younger: 25

20 to 29 yrs - 78

30 to 39 yrs - 73

40 to 49 yrs - 47

50 to 59 yrs - 63

60 to 69 yrs - 52

70 to 79 yrs – 44

80 to 89 yrs - 21

90 and older - 18

There have been 25 individuals from the county who have died from COVID-19.

Those who have passed include:

A 68-year-old Sand Lake man.

An 81-year-old Pittstown man.

A 70-year-old East Greenbush man.

A 59-year-old Brunswick woman.

A 77-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

A 95-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

A 72-year-old female resident at Diamond Hill.

A 96-year-old female resident at Diamond Hill.

A 99-year-old East Greenbush man.

A 71-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

A 75-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

An 89-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

An 88-year-old female resident at Diamond Hill.

A 58-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

A 58-year-old female resident at Diamond Hill.

A 68-year-old Nassau man.

A 71-year-old female resident at Diamond Hill.

A 65-year-old Troy woman.

A 39-year-old Nassau man.

An 86-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

An 80-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

An 85-year-old male resident at Diamond Hill.

A 95-year-old male resident at the Eddy Memorial.

An 81-year-old female resident at the Eddy Memorial adult care facility in Troy.

A 91-year-old female at the Eddy Memorial Geriatric adult care home in Troy.

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"24 new COVID-19 cases in Rensselaer County, mostly seniors"

staff report. Albany, New York Times Union

May 9, 2020 |Updated: May 9, 2020 6:12 p.m.

The Rensselaer County Health Department announced Saturday afternoon there are 24 new COVID-19 cases.

Seventeen live at Diamond Hill adult care facility in Schaghticoke.

The oldest person to become infected is a 100-year-old woman.

The county now has 422 total cases.

The county noted a number of the new confirmed cases at Diamond Hill came about because of testing by the state, following several requests by the county for state review of the private care facility.

There have been 58 confirmed cases at Diamond Hill.

County officials hope that earlier diagnostic testing, as requested by the county and performed by the state, will help with patient care, according to the county Facebook page.

In addition to the 24 new cases, the county announced the death of a 91-year-old female at the Eddy Memorial adult care home in Troy.

The county has now had 25 deaths of residents from COVID-19.

Seventeen of those deaths occurred at nursing homes.

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