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97 ILL, 12 DEAD AT FOX NURSING HOME

January Deaths

Greatest So Far

State Data Lags, Bond Says

From otsegocovid.com

By MIKE FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

COOPERSTOWN – Deaths from COVID-19 rose sharply in Otsego County in January, following about a week behind a peak in active coronavirus cases.

Bond reports numbers at recent county board meeting.

Sixteen Otsego County residents died from coronavirus-related causes in January and 10 to date in February, the county health department confirmed today. There were 19 COVID fatalities from the county in all of 2020.

For 12 consecutive days starting Jan. 17, the number of active cases among Otsego County residents exceeded 200. This had only happened once previously, in early September during the height of the SUNY Oneonta outbreak.

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