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Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy said that 20.5 percent of the county’s population has gotten at least a first shot of COVID-19 vaccine, the second highest rate in the Capital Region and one of the highest rates in the state.

New York State is setting up new sites solely to administer the recently-approved single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, which is just as effective in preventing hospitalization and death as the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, according to clinical trials, although not as effective in preventing mild cases of the virus.

James Bacon, the group’s attorney, on March 1 was responding to Guilderland and Pyramid’s appeals briefs, filed on Jan. 28 and Jan. 25, respectively, both of which included “misstatements of fact and law which are herein corrected,” Bacon wrote in his filing

RIC Energy describes almost all of the Albany County Planning Board’s conclusions as “erroneous.”

“A lot of folks that know me and the agency that I oversee, we’re very community oriented and I think our staff does a great job. Many things we’ve already banned way prior to the horrific incident that happened with George Floyd,” Sheriff Craig Apple told the legislative committee accepting his draft for reform.

“We went through a month of hell,” the county’s sheriff said.