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Rye Native Dr. Louis Barton Was A True Scholar Rye Native Dr. Louis Barton Was A True Scholar
Rye Native Dr. Louis Barton Was A True Scholar Longtime Westchester resident Dr. Louis Wyatt Gunn Barton died in late August at Little Farm, his home of 40 years in Ocie, MO.  Dr. Barton, age 72, was a lifelong student with prodigious academic successes. He was top student and class president at George School, and he graduated magna cum laude from Yale. He studied for masters degrees at Harvard and MIT and earned a doctoral degree in Software Engineering from Oxford University in England.  During his Oxford years, he suffered from ill health and did most of his studying at his home in Ocie. Oxford made an extraordinary deci…

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COVID-19: New Study Reveals How Prevalent Blood Clots Are With Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines COVID-19: New Study Reveals How Prevalent Blood Clots Are With Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines
Covid-19: New Study Reveals How Prevalent Blood Clots Are With Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines The ratio of people who have suffered from blood clots after receiving the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is approximately the same as those who receive the AstraZeneca vaccine, according to a new study. Oxford University researchers found that the number of people who receive blood clots after getting vaccinated is approximately the same for all three vaccines, with four in one million people experiencing cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) after getting the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, compared to five in one million people for the AstraZeneca vaccine. The new study comes in the wake of A…

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COVID-19: Third Vaccine Approved For Use COVID-19: Third Vaccine Approved For Use
Covid-19: Third Vaccine Approved For Use A new COVID-19 vaccine that has proven effective in recent testing has been the third vaccine to gain approval. Developed by Oxford University in the United Kingdom by AstraZeneca and dubbed the “vaccine for the world,” the vaccine is nearly ready to begin distribution. Pfizer distributed the first COVID-19 vaccine, followed by Moderna's vaccine. Both are now been administered in the United States. Approximately 530,000 doses of the new vaccine are expected to be ready as soon as early next week, while the UK has reportedly ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine, which will allow them to…

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Pulitzer Prize Winner Robert Massie, Longtime Westchester Resident, Dies Pulitzer Prize Winner Robert Massie, Longtime Westchester Resident, Dies
Pulitzer Prize Winner Robert Massie, Longtime Westchester Resident, Dies An award-winning historian who called the Hudson Valley home for much of his life, died in his Westchester home. Robert K. Massie, an author and historian of Europe and pre-Revolutionary Russia, died in Irvington on Monday, Dec. 2. Massie, who was 90 years old, had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease at the time of his death. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Massie’s published books on Russian tzars that sold more than six million copies, including “Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman,” “Peter the Great,” and “Nicholas and Alexandra,” which he wrote when his son was diagnosed with hemophil…

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