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New York's Wadsworth Laboratory in Albany has begun research of the new, more contagious COVID-19 strain discovered in England, they have looked at more than 3,700 virus sequences & they have not found that variant present in any of their random samples, Governor Cuomo commented about the state labs at today's COVID briefing in Albany:

(Cuomo 12-23-20)

The Wadsworth Lab and the Department of Health have made agreements with 6 hospitals from across the State to obtain additional samples for further research and are making arrangements with other hospitals to do the same, in order to find out if that virus variant is here in New York State.

The State Health Department issued an update on the Kawasaki Disease-like syndrome that has affected children with COVID 19 in the state that killed 3 young people earlier this year.  The State Health Department has investigated 240 cases of the syndrome & published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. 1 of the findings is that the hyper-inflammatory syndrome is associated with cardiac dysfunction& the majority of the patients in the study had no documented underlying conditions.  The Research will be continuing.

State Police are continuing to
investigate into the disappearance of 32 year old Brandon Williams of Endicott.  Williams was last seen in March 2019 in the
town of Maine, he is described as White, 6'2" about 220 pounds, with brown
hair & brown eyes, he was last seen wearing a red Hooded sweatshirt, gray
jeans & a new England Patriots winter hat & a tan jacket.  Anyone with information is asked to contact
State Police at 775-1241.