LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID Studies Seek Vaccine, But Treatments Too There has been a great deal of information both published and awaiting publication in the scientific literature about COVID-19. There’s so much literature it’s sometimes difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, determining how accurate information may be no matter how well-meaning the researchers. In the treatment of COVID-19. There are no fully FDA-approved medications or treatment protocols. So far, the FDA has released EUAs (emergency use…
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EDITORIAL Turmoil At Bassett, But It’s Good Turmoil. And It Can’t Be Avoided Intriguing news is filtering out of the vicinity of One Atwell Road, Cooperstown, as Dr. Tommy Ibrahim, new Bassett Healthcare Network president/CEO, takes hold. Some people are leaving, voluntarily or not, which is common in this kind of transition. But there’s a particularly intriguing addition: A tech guy, Michael Thompson, VP/systems improvement, recruited from Integris, Ibrahim’s former employer, based in Oklahoma City. Last week’s announcement described his…
LETTER from LEWIS HAMILTON Rabid Bat? Play Ball! To the Editor, Your last edition shows a photo of Congressman Delgado briefing the proprietor of the Cooperstown Bat Company. Immediately beneath in large bold print: “2 Infected in Cooperstown by Rabid Bat.” Journalistic levity or Steele Dossier class opposition research? Respectfully submitted, LEWIS HAMILTON Cooperstown…
LETTER from KENNETH J. KAVANAGH Fauci’s Fault: He Tells The Truth To the Editor: It is sadly another fractured irony floated by the “stable genius” at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. that Dr. Anthony Fauci was “inherited,” implying Trump has no choice. Trump’s displeasure with Fauci is repeatedly more than evident throughout his diatribes for one reason and only one: Fauci tells the truth. His statements are based purely upon scientific data. His refusal to go along with Trump’s political spin, as…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Vote For Candidate With Integrity, Dignity, Veracity To the Editor: The first Presidential candidate that I supported was Barry Goldwater in 1964. That was not a popular position in Texas, where LBJ was revered. I got into a few arguments. I did so because of Goldwater’s integrity, his personal ethics, his honor. The second political candidate I supported was JFK – for the same reasons – compared to Nixon, JFK was a paragon of integrity. I…
LETTER from JAMES DEAN Germans Allowed Nazism; Don’t Allow Donald Trump To the Editor: I remember, as a child in the late1940s, sitting under a table listening to the radio, as I often did, before we had our first television. I never forgot the constant news reports, in real time, about the thousands of concentration camps and millions of mass killings found in and around Germany at the end of World War II. I never forgot. It was always with…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Even Now, Is Enough Being Done At SUNY? By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana. What about the recent history of the spread of COVID-19 and the attempted reopening of colleges was so difficult for SUNY Oneonta to learn? How can you trust 6,000 adolescents and very young adults to do what is correct when set free after being…
DR. WHELAN’S BOOK PUBLISHED What Happened To Freddie Gray? Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from Dr. Mary Anne Whelan’s just-published “Freddie’s Last Ride,” the retired Bassett Hospital neurologist’s assessment of the controversial case of a black teenager in Baltimore who died in police custody in 2015. It is available through www.amazon.com. April 12, 2015, … police saw a young black man, Freddie Gray, and without provocation other than his identity, chased him when he ran and pinned him when he…
Public, Private Colleges Both Must Thrive It’s been reported that SUNY Oneonta’s volunteer quarantining was a SUNY-wide policy. If so, then we can expected similar COVID explosions at Cobleskill, Delhi, Binghamton and across the 64-campus system, unless the campuses can quickly apply SUNY Oneonta’s new regimen of 100-percent testing and a two-week hiatus. Throughout the pandemic threat, there have been calls for uniform policies and instruction from Washington D.C. (or the CDC in Atlanta), so a nation of 320 million…
Let’s Stay Flexible, Collaborate, Decide To Move Forward 20-20 hindsight is easy but… Aug. 21-23 was critical. That was the first weekend back for SUNY Oneonta’s 6,500 students. For Hartwick College 1,200; but, as it turns out, that was less impactful. For Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig and Common Council, the focus had been on bars and gatherings on Main Street, but that turned out to be under control. Yes, there were students there, but the heightened public concern, and tavern…
