After pushing much of the New York State healthcare system to the brink earlier this year, the COVID-19 pandemic is now punishing other parts of the country. "El Paso is putting hospital beds in a convention center," says Dr. Nancy Nielsen. "Sound like anything you remember seven months ago?" During her weekly conversation with WBFO, the Senior Associate Dean for Health Policy at UB's Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences discussed the lessons learned by New York State. "You can't argue with the success. And now New York has been able to move from this broad swath of Phases One through Four in Western New York and Downstate to this very micro-containment."
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Jay joined Buffalo Toronto Public Media in 2008 and has been local host for NPR's "Morning Edition" ever since. In June, 2022, he was named one of the co-hosts of WBFO's "Buffalo, What's Next."
A graduate of St. Mary's of the Lake School, St. Francis High School and Buffalo State College, Jay has worked most of his professional career in Buffalo. Outside of public media, he continues in longstanding roles as the public address announcer for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League and as play-by-play voice of Canisius College basketball.
Jay joined Buffalo Toronto Public Media in 2008 and has been local host for NPR's "Morning Edition" ever since. In June, 2022, he was named one of the co-hosts of WBFO's "Buffalo, What's Next."
A graduate of St. Mary's of the Lake School, St. Francis High School and Buffalo State College, Jay has worked most of his professional career in Buffalo. Outside of public media, he continues in longstanding roles as the public address announcer for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League and as play-by-play voice of Canisius College basketball.