Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On November 19th, 2020, with COVID cases on the rise again in New York, prompting worries about a ‘second wave’, Senator Schumer stood with local hospital and elected officials in front of Medina Memorial Hospital, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer today revealed that Orleans County currently has no designated COVID testing site that offers free tests to Orleans County residents, and that the feds, specifically the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), are sitting on as much as $9 billion dollars needed right now as part of a more coordinated and robust virus testing regime. Schumer demanded HHS release the testing dollars he helped to originally secure in prior COVID relief legislation, right now, saying that Orleans County alone will need thousands of dollars to conduct sufficient rapid testing and tracing programs to keep residents safe from the virus. Schumer also announced his intention to fight for more of those funds for communities across Upstate New York as the possibility of a second wave emerges and as a COVID relief deal continues to be negotiated.