Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On July 31st, 2017 at Albany Medical Center, and in the wake of the recently reported death and confirmed case of Powassan (POW) virus in the Capital Region, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer urged the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to double-down on efforts to fully implement new laws, passed by Congress last year, that will significantly increase research, vaccine development and treatment strategies to help stamp out tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease. Schumer said any delay in federal action will allow newly emerging diseases like POW which, as many in the Capital Region now know, is even deadlier than Lyme disease and has tragically claimed lives. Schumer pointed to The Center for Disease Control data which detailed 288 cases of Lyme disease in Albany County and 8,272 across the state in 2015.