The Hudson Estuary Trees for Tribs Program, run by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation, is accepting applications for spring streamside planting projects.

ALBANY COUNTY — Patients who have recovered from the acute phase of COVID-19 but who are experiencing lingering symptoms can now be treated by a team of specialists at the Post-COVID Care Clinic at Albany Medical Center.

The University at Albany is receiving $365,766 to fund research on the effects of Vitamin K for breast cancer prevention. This award will be administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

“As of today, following the science, scrimmages and games can start if the school has submitted everything they need to submit,”said Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy.

The latest residents to succumb to the virus are  a woman in her eighties and a man in his nineties, bringing Albany County’s death toll to 332.

As of Feb. 6, Albany County had administered 90 percent of its doses, according to the state’s vaccine dashboard, which now also tracks statewide demographic data.

The governor’s office on Friday released numbers on three different groups eligible for COVID-19 vaccination — hospital workers, essential workers, and people 65 and older — which showed, in each group, Blacks were under-represented.

Nursing students at Maria College are “battle hardened” as they help during the pandemic, said the college’s president. Similarly, the president of Russell Sage College says his students are learning life lessons about serving the common good.

Hospitals across the state have one more week, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday, to vaccinate their workers then that allotment of vaccine doses will be shifted to vaccinate adults of any age with comorbidities. He also said that 94 percent of the people who die from COVID are people with comorbidities or other underlying conditions. 

New York City’s Mayor, Bill de Blasio, requested on Wednesday that the city be allowed to administer second COVID-19 vaccine doses as first doses.

On Thursday, the state’s health commissioner, Howard Zucker, denied that request, citing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.