The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/tompkins-county/)
The Southern Tier region of New York State can begin reopening later this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) said on Monday, marking the most significant step so far toward a return to everyday operations in the state.
Thanks to a partnership with alum-founded and Ithaca-based Rheonix Inc., Cayuga Health can offer patients same-day results.
As area high schools closed, seniors found their own ways to commemorate graduating, helped with support from community members.
Antibody testing in New York shows that communal transmission in the state likely began as early as mid-February, before the first officially reported case.
After an initial period of exponential growth, the number of positive COVID-19 in Tompkins County cases seems to have leveled off.
Cornell demographers have created an interactive mapping tool to study the vulnerability of New York counties to COVID-19 outbreak.
The sampling site has the capacity to test up to 1,000 patients a day; as of Wednesday evening, TCHD had tested 2,546 people.
The Women’s Opportunity Center is now offering both virtual and mail-based career services to support displaced women, many of whom are divorced or widowed.
In the age of social distancing, the Tompkins County Democratic Committee will host its first live streamed candidate forum to help candidates broadcast their messages to voters.
A patient at Cayuga Medical Center died from coronavirus complications on Friday.