Category: Health, Hot News
City Sets Up Four Sites for Free Rapid COVID-19 Tests
Dec 02, 2020
Patti Singerpattisinger@minorityreporter.net The city has 4,100 rapid COVID-19 tests that it will deploy equally among four sites through...
Data Snapshot Showed COVID-19 Rate Spiked Among Whites and Slowed Among Minorities
Dec 02, 2020
Patti Singerpattisinger@minorityreporter.net A lot of COVID-19 talk is about the number of new cases and the percentage of tests that come...
Jordan Health Respiratory Clinic Receives Local Honor
Dec 01, 2020
Staff reports The respiratory clinic at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center was honored by the Rochester Area Task Force on AIDS (RATFA)....
Residents in “Orange” City, Towns to Get More Opportunities for COVID-19 Tests
Nov 29, 2020
Staff reports Starting Dec. 1, Rochester and the towns designated orange micro-cluster zones will provide more COVID-19 testing for their...
Orange Designation Forces UR Medicine to Stop Visits at Strong, Highland
Nov 25, 2020
Staff reports UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial and Highland hospitals will not allow general visitation in accordance with state regulations...
City Adjusts Services, Seeks More Tests as State Raises Alert Over Micro-Clusters
Nov 24, 2020
Patti Singerpattisinger@minorityreporter.net Libraries are back to curbside pickup, City Hall has reduced hours and some salons and barbers...
Help Wanted: COVID-19 Strains the Monroe County Health Department
Nov 19, 2020
Patti Singerpattisinger@minorityreporter.net Monroe County’s COVID-19 cases are up so much that the help wanted sign is out at the...
Excitement Over a Potential COVID-19 Vaccine, Dismay Over the Increase in Cases
Nov 13, 2020
Patti Singerpattisinger@minorityreporter.net Monroe County reported more new cases of COVID-19 in three days than it did the entire month...
Rise in COVID-19 Cases Puts Rochester, Several Towns in Yellow Zone
Nov 09, 2020
Patti Singerpattisinger@minorityreporter.net The city and several towns have a high enough rate of positive tests for COVID-19 that the...
Numbers Show Why Jordan Health Needed to be COVID-19 Test Site
Nov 09, 2020
Patti Singerpattisinger@minorityreporter.net Health Center marked the six-month anniversary of its respiratory clinic by announcing numbers...