In today’s WBFO Brief, hear Erie County Health Commissioner Gale Burstein MD say that when it comes to COVID-19 and a mask mandate in schools ““We have seen outbreaks… among young children. We also know that masks are protective for people of all ages.”
Also, Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt looks at the challenges facing now NYS Gov. Kathy Hochul- from eviction relief to the persistence of COVID-19. Western New Yorkers weigh in with their open letters to Gov. Hochul, suggesting attention on a range of issues from the Great Lakes to rural poverty. And we have a look at Hochul’s positions on gun violence, with a few weeks left on Gov. Cuomo’s gun violence “state of emergency.”