Schuyler Discusses Recent Uptick in COVID-19 Cases in Chautauqua County

Chautauqua County has been seeing an increase in the number of active COVID-19 cases in recent weeks. That number jumped from 180 to 212 after the County Health Department reported that there were 49 new confirmed cases of the virus on Wednesday. WDOE News on Thursday asked Public Health Director Christine Schuyler why the county has been seeing an increase. Schuyler told us that there has generally been more spread, but noted that there are cases that are family-related, as well as cases linked to school sports and SUNY Fredonia...

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Schuyler also believes the uptick is a sign that the more contagious COVID-19 variants are in the area. There have been reports of those variants in Western New York, but she says there have been no confirmed cases of those variants in Chautauqua County at this time...

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Schuyler hopes that the number of cases begins to level off, but fears that may not be the case with the presence of the variants in region.

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