covid

We love to love teachers, except at budget time
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
LZ GRANDERSON Tribune News Service 
Feb 09, 2022
Don’t you just love those viral videos of teachers being awesome? Like the one of Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Ms. Fitz — swishing a long jumper , which led...
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Why Biden can’t embrace COVID normality
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RICH LOWRY 
Feb 02, 2022
Joe Biden was the candidate of normality who hasn’t been able to deliver it, particularly on the pandemic. This is not entirely his fault, obviously. ...
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The idiocy of vaccine mandates for kids
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 12, 2022
The old legal maxim is that everything which is not forbidden is permitted. Many public-health experts apparently have their own version of this rule ...
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COVID testing for OCSD employees begins today
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Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
Dec 08, 2021
OLEAN — Faculty and staff in the Olean City School District will begin weekly testing for COVID-19 today but those who are fully vaccinated have the o...
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Don’t lose more holidays to COVID panic
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CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Dec 07, 2021
Two weeks ago, I attended the funeral of a dear lady who had befriended me when I first arrived in Fort Worth eight years ago. She was nearly 81 when ...
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On omicron, resist overreaction
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 02, 2021
There’s a new COVID variant and the world is freaking out. Omicron was first found in South Africa, prompting President Biden to restrict travel from ...
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On omicron, resist overreaction
Dec 02, 2021
There’s a new COVID variant and the world is freaking out. Omicron was first found in South Africa, prompting President Biden to restrict travel from ...
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Visitation paused at Olean General; 130th COVID death
Cattaraugus County, News
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Oct 15, 2021
OLEAN — Visitation to Olean General Hospital and Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center has been suspended again because of increasing cases of COVID-...
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What’s next? Leeches?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
GENE LYONS 
Sep 24, 2021
Americans are currently experiencing one of the most peculiar public episodes of my lifetime. Amid a deadly worldwide disease epidemic, many people ar...
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COVID survivor urges masks, getting vaccinated
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Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
Sep 04, 2021
FRANKLINVILLE — One week after her 55th birthday, Angela Schadt found herself at Olean General Hospital with a terrible cough, shortness of breath and...
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Another needless COVID victim
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
Aug 31, 2021
You don’t have to be a scientist to muster convincing arguments in favor of commonsense measures for combating COVID-19. COVID spreads through the air...
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BRMC, OGH to host COVID memorial services
Cattaraugus County, News
Aug 24, 2021
Bradford Regional Medical Center and Olean General Hospital will host COVID memorial services at 6:30 p.m. today. The programs will honor those lost t...
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Vaccines, masks a must to beat COVID
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York, ...
Aug 20, 2021
Shifting away from his Afghan debacle, President Biden went back Wednesday to that other war, COVID, with a two-prong attack on the enemy: Vaccines an...
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