WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER SETS RECORD VISITS FOR YEAR 7,017,658 VISITS! 2,098,003 VISITORS MADE 6 VISITS A DAY EVERY DAY. 63,330 UNIQUE VISITORS MADE 133,730 VISITS IN DECEMBER. WPCNR AVERAGED 17,284 VISITORS A WEEK, VISITING 31,270 TIMES.

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WPCNR THE SUNDAY BAILEY. News and Comment by John F. Bailey. January 16, 2022:

it is ironic that 54 years after Dr. King was murdered that latinos, african americans, muslims, indians, immigrants are facing the loss of the vote due to the techniques of the post Civil War south. pretty soon the night riders will be back.

it is a national disgrace that the congress is not going to pass the voting rights act, even more a disgrace that two Senate Democrats are blocking that effort. it is even more a disgrace that no republican will break ranks and address this wrong. Where is the sanctimonious Mitt Romney on this?

Why not Democrats, just kill the filibuster for this one vote and bring the voting rights bill to the floor and vote it in. Then the “Fillibluster” can go back into effect? Where is the thinking?

Otherwise the congress is willingly destroying the constitution which guarantees the right to vote.

If they do not vote back in voting rights, the failure to do so should be taken back to the Supreme Court claiming that voting rights can not be restricted by new tests, voting procedures, identification procedures, hours restrictions, showing of papers, you name it.

Assuming the Supreme Court is presented with factual arguments that the procedures being challenged by some 36 states and presently allowed by the Supreme Court decision that is on a par with the Dred Scott decision that declared people were property, they have to make a judgment for the good, not based on state’s rights.

One wonders if these judges have ever read the Civil War history. Their decisions are so in keeping with the Solomonesque decision to declare a person property, the Dred Scott decision.

The effect of the judges letting the voting rights restrictions rushed on by legislature after legislature, the judges are saying “it is all right for you to live here for years but we want to make sure you’re a citizen, make sure you live here, and have papers to prove you are a citizen whom we think is suspicious.” Every person in the states with new voting restrictions should be subject to the same rigorous analysis. I wonder if that will happen, don’t you?

I have a voting restriction for all those states that are skyrocketing covid infections, because they do not demand vaccinations.

I say that in order to vote in those dead red and dying states, you must show prove of being vaccinated to be allowed in to vote. Some good might come out of that.

But of course, they won’t do that. That would mean many people unvaccinated could not vote They wouldn’t want that. It is such an obvious solution.

But the Supreme Court in their extreme prejudice to favor states’ rights (the main cause of the Civil War over slavery), would overrule that too as taking away their right to not die or get severely sick.

Speaking of disgraces. is this the dumbest Supreme Court in American history? This Supreme Court is making decision after decision that restrict, restore a balance of power to business and the party that appointed them, restrict women’s rights.

It is sickening to see the shabby cruelty of these notorious nine. Judge John Roberts will go down in history as the leader of the Court that destroyed the Constitution leading to the weakening of the country for a century, just as the Reichstadt did in 1938 making Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.

The Supreme Court denying the Presidential mandate that companies over 100 must have their workers vaccinated is just plain stupid dangerous and means essentially in the long term taking away a President’s efficiency and ability to handle a national emergency with timely measures.

These Judges  are not Plato’s “Guardians,”  charged with making decisions for the good of the people.

The Judges of conservative didactic readings of the Constitution  are sophists. Sophists are Plato’s word for persons creating arguments without facts or reason, just opinions to justify their political ends and arguments.

I remember when Judge Francis Nicolai in White Plains decided in favor of Councilman Larry Delgado when a voting machine jammed in 2001, giving zero votes to Mr. Delgado, which assured Glen Hockley of election to the Common Council.

Judge Nicolai pointing to his black sleeve, said, “I wear these robes to right wrongs.”

This Supreme Court is not doing that.

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GOVERNOR HOCHUL UPDATES NEW YORKERS ON STATE’S PROGRESS COMBATING COVID-19

97,135 Vaccine Doses Administered Over Last 24 Hours    

166 COVID-19 Deaths Statewide Yesterday

Governor Kathy Hochul Tuesday updated New Yorkers on the state’s progress combating COVID-19.

“The slowdown in new cases gives us a glimmer of hope, but cases still remain high and we are nowhere near the end of the winter surge,” Governor Hochul said.  “Let’s not undo all of the hard work we’ve put in to get to this point.  Please make sure to get your second dose and booster shot. Parents and guardians, the best way to protect our children is to get them vaccinated and boosted, once they’re eligible. And let’s continue to use the tools we know will help stop the spread: Wear a non-cloth mask and stay home if you’re feeling sick.”

Today’s data is summarized briefly below: 

• Test Results Reported – 338,280
• Total Positive – 58,770
• Percent Positive – 17.37%
• 7-Day Average Percent Positive – 20.22%
• Patient Hospitalization – 12,671 (+131)
• Patients Newly Admitted – 2,007
• Patients in ICU – 1593 (-4)
• Patients in ICU with Intubation – 830 (-1)
• Total Discharges – 247,354 (+1,687)
• New deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS – 166
• Total deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS – 49,955
  
  The Health Electronic Response Data System is a NYS DOH data source that collects confirmed daily death data as reported by hospitals, nursing homes and adult care facilities only. 
• Total deaths reported to and compiled by the CDC – 62,698
  
  This daily COVID-19 provisional death certificate data reported by NYS DOH and NYC to the CDC includes those who died in any location, including hospitals, nursing homes, adult care facilities, at home, in hospice and other settings. 

• Total vaccine doses administered – 34,611,241
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 24 hours – 97,135
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 7 days – 636,628
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose – 89.9% 
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series – 81.0% 
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) – 95.0%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series (CDC) – 83.4%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose – 78.9%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series – 70.5% 
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) – 85.6% 
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series (CDC) – 72.6%

Each region’s 7-day average of cases per 100K population is as follows

Region	Sunday, January 9, 2022	Monday, January 10, 2022	Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Capital Region	242.13	252.44	246.12
Central New York	288.05	288.27	280.62
Finger Lakes	207.03	211.27	209.46
Long Island	402.63	394.70	372.58
Mid-Hudson	359.58	349.94	332.27
Mohawk Valley	210.47	212.06	209.62
New York City	487.21	482.20	462.65
North Country	182.90	190.16	193.84
Southern Tier	201.07	204.01	210.55
Western New York	251.29	250.77	254.98
Statewide	381.66	378.30	364.35

Each region’s 7-day average percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:   

Region	Sunday, January 9, 2022	Monday, January 10, 2022	Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Capital Region	19.53%	19.48%	19.30%
Central New York	21.97%	22.01%	21.51%
Finger Lakes	19.94%	19.94%	19.72%
Long Island	25.58%	25.14%	24.33%
Mid-Hudson	22.59%	21.96%	21.09%
Mohawk Valley	17.64%	17.53%	17.63%
New York City	20.63%	20.15%	19.38%
North Country	17.26%	17.62%	17.49%
Southern Tier	15.44%	15.29%	14.94%
Western New York	22.36%	22.71%	22.77%
Statewide	21.30%	20.91%	20.22%

Each New York City borough’s 7-day average percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:   

Borough in NYC	Sunday, January 9, 2022	Monday, January 10, 2022	Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Bronx	24.00%	22.96%	21.81%
Kings	19.24%	18.64%	17.80%
New York	16.25%	16.20%	15.73%
Queens	23.41%	22.99%	22.34%
Richmond	22.44%	21.74%	20.56%

Yesterday, 58,770 New Yorkers tested positive for COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 4,298,809. A geographic breakdown is as follows:  

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	48,640	575
Allegany	7,502	47
Broome	38,090	364
Cattaraugus	12,613	157
Cayuga	13,218	161
Chautauqua	19,761	199
Chemung	17,405	294
Chenango	7,534	57
Clinton	11,909	138
Columbia	8,156	203
Cortland	8,373	111
Delaware	6,324	60
Dutchess	55,009	654
Erie	177,332	2,708
Essex	4,370	58
Franklin	7,285	82
Fulton	10,112	119
Genesee	11,532	122
Greene	7,134	148
Hamilton	724	5
Herkimer	11,449	169
Jefferson	15,433	210
Lewis	5,279	55
Livingston	9,594	131
Madison	10,412	113
Monroe	131,209	1,518
Montgomery	9,671	121
Nassau	361,426	3,987
Niagara	40,675	527
NYC	2,005,104	31,183
Oneida	44,484	421
Onondaga	87,307	1,343
Ontario	16,175	211
Orange	92,487	1,182
Orleans	7,262	103
Oswego	20,002	211
Otsego	7,812	176
Putnam	20,671	232
Rensselaer	25,358	336
Rockland	80,991	1,020
Saratoga	37,305	471
Schenectady	26,871	297
Schoharie	3,926	55
Schuyler	2,787	56
Seneca	4,548	75
St. Lawrence	16,724	170
Steuben	16,123	174
Suffolk	383,816	3,942
Sullivan	15,355	282
Tioga	8,727	124
Tompkins	13,721	219
Ulster	26,093	374
Warren	10,883	154
Washington	9,677	129
Wayne	13,919	137
Westchester	222,732	2,474
Wyoming	7,081	88
Yates	2,697	38

Below is data that shows how many hospitalized individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 were admitted for COVID-19/COVID-19 complications and how many were admitted for non-COVID-19 conditions:

Region	COVID-19 Patients currently hospitalized	Admitted due to COVID or complications of COVID	% Admitted due to COVID or complications of COVID	Admitted where COVID was not included as one of the reasons for admission	% Admitted where COVID was not included as one of the reasons for admission
Capital Region	399	307	77%	92	23%
Central New York	302	224	74%	78	26%
Finger Lakes	711	438	62%	273	38%
Long Island	2,254	1,403	62%	851	38%
Mid-Hudson	1,375	906	66%	469	34%
Mohawk Valley	158	108	68%	50	32%
New York City	6,523	3,362	52%	3,161	48%
North Country	103	64	62%	39	38%
Southern Tier	214	121	57%	93	43%
Western New York	632	415	66%	217	34%
Statewide	12,671	7,348	58%	5,323	42%

The Omicron variant now represents more than 95% of the viruses in circulation. For more information on variant tracking, please visit here: (COVID-19 Variant Data | Department of Health (ny.gov).

Yesterday, 166 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19, bringing the total to 49,955. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:   

Deaths by County of Residence
County	New Deaths
Albany	1
Bronx	20
Cayuga	1
Clinton	1
Dutchess	3
Erie	7
Essex	1
Franklin	1
Fulton	1
Herkimer	1
Kings	31
Manhattan	14
Monroe	3
Nassau	8
Niagara	1
Oneida	2
Onondaga	2
Ontario	1
Orange	4
Oswego	1
Putnam	1
Queens	22
Rensselaer	1
Richmond	5
Rockland	2
Saratoga	1
Schenectady	2
Schoharie	1
Seneca	1
St. Lawrence	1
Steuben	2
Suffolk	17
Warren	1
Westchester	5

All New York State mass vaccination sites are open to eligible New Yorkers aged 5 and older, with walk-in vaccination available at all sites on a first-come, first-serve basis for people aged 12 and older. Information on which sites require appointments for children in the 5-11 age group is available on our website. People who prefer to make an  appointment at a state-run mass vaccination site can do so on the Am I Eligible App or by calling 1-833-NYS-4-VAX. People may also contact their local health department, pharmacy, doctor or hospital to schedule appointments where vaccines are available, or visit vaccines.gov to find information on vaccine appointments near them. 

New Yorkers looking to schedule vaccine appointments for 5-11-year-old children are encouraged to contact their child’s pediatrician, family physician, county health departments, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), rural health centers, or pharmacies that may be administering the vaccine for this age group. Parents and guardians can visit vaccines.gov, text their ZIP code to 438829, or call 1-800-232-0233 to find nearby locations. Make sure that the provider offers the Pfizer-BioNTechCOVID-19 vaccine, as the other COVID-19 vaccines are not yet authorized for this age group. 

Visit our website for parents and guardians for new information, frequently asked questions and answers, and resources specifically designed for parents and guardians of this age group. 

Yesterday, 21,484 New Yorkers received their first vaccine dose, and 17,375 completed their vaccine series. A geographic breakdown of New Yorkers who have been vaccinated by region is as follows: 

	People with at least one vaccine dose	People with complete vaccine series
Region	Cumulative Total	Increase over past 24 hours	Cumulative Total	Increase over past 24 hours
Capital Region	948,374	937	863,595	782
Central New York	633,685	415	584,950	377
Finger Lakes	845,808	823	780,357	730
Long Island	2,115,170	3,490	1,864,450	2,541
Mid-Hudson	1,654,652	2,513	1,441,523	1,920
Mohawk Valley	319,154	265	295,144	241
New York City	7,752,191	11,307	6,772,137	9,356
North Country	296,679	302	267,550	187
Southern Tier	430,558	446	392,868	333
Western New York	933,656	986	851,790	908
Statewide	15,929,927	21,484	14,114,364	17,375

Booster/Additional Shots
Region	Cumulative Total	Increase over past 24 hours	Increase over past 7  days
Capital Region	392,045	3,874	24,698
Central New York	248,960	2,549	16,965
Finger Lakes	397,765	3,590	26,731
Long Island	764,482	8,805	56,954
Mid-Hudson	617,314	7,066	44,863
Mohawk Valley	135,109	1,129	8,080
New York City	1,905,812	19,544	135,207
North Country	116,204	1,424	8,070
Southern Tier	182,349	1,744	12,567
Western New York	436,835	4,138	25,041
Statewide	5,196,875	53,863	359,176

The COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker Dashboard is available to update New Yorkers on the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. The New York State Department of Health requires vaccinating facilities to report all COVID-19 vaccine administration data within 24 hours; the vaccine administration data on the dashboard is updated daily to reflect the most up-to-date metrics in the state’s vaccination effort. New York State Department of Health-reported data from NYSIIS and CIR differs slightly from federally-reported data, which is inclusive of federally-administered doses and other minor differences. Both numbers are included in the release above. 

As of 1/11	Hospital	Nursing Home	ACF	LHCSA	Hospice	CHHA	Total
Total employee terminations due to being unvaccinated	5,823	1.13%	2,477	1.64%	334	1.08%	8,107	2.87%	90	1.47%	139	1.04%	16,970	1.70%
Total employee resignations and retirements due to being unvaccinated	2,315	0.45%	52	0.03%	11	0.04%	3,121	1.10%	80	1.31%	116	0.86%	5,695	0.57%
Total on furlough/unpaid leave due to being unvaccinated and unwilling to get vaccinated	1,382	0.27%	657	0.44%	80	0.26%	7,798	2.76%	8	0.13%	67	0.50%	9,992	1.00%
Total on furlough/unpaid leave due to being unvaccinated BUT now awaiting first dose	113	0.02%	1,515	1.00%	512	1.66%	2,489	0.88%	11	0.18%	4	0.03%	4,644	0.46%
Total INACTIVE employees from categories above	9,633	4,701	937	21,515	189	326	37,301
Total ACTIVE employees reported 1/11/22	505,748	146,084	29,986	261,448	5,923	13,097	962,286
Grand Total	515,381	150,785	30,923	282,963	6,112	13,423	999,587

Percentages are estimates. They are based on self-reported data for 1/11/22. The denominators are active employees reported for 1/11/22 plus the inactive categories above; they do not include workforce fluctuations that may have occurred in addition to these categories above.