Uptown Kingston deli owner Colleen Schuon and shop owner Craig McElroy shiver to think about what another COVID-19 lockdown would do to their businesses.

“Definitely, business is going to be less," said Schuon, owner of Market Basket on Wall Street.

“We survived the last time,” McElroy said of his staff at his shop, Kingston Consignments, “but if we get shut down again for an extended period of time, it does not necessarily produce the same results.”

Ulster County leaders are renewing their campaign to convince vaccine holdouts to get shots to keep a small spike in daily cases from growing.

The county had 104 active cases Thursday, many believed to be delta variant cases.

It is the highest number of active cases since May 24.

“I think, at this point, if it’s going to happen, it needs to be a little more forced,” McElroy said of the new push to vaccinate more county residents, “because they’ve made their decision. It’s been a long time since you’ve [first] been able to get shots, and they haven’t done that.”

Because of the increase in cases, Ulster County reactivated its emergency operations center to better monitor the spread and increase vaccine outreach to certain communities with high transmission rates.

The move was expected, Ulster County Health Commissioner Dr. Carol Smith said.

“If we’re not at the point where we’re alarmed, we do not want to get there,” Smith said during an interview at the county Health Department Thursday afternoon.

She said Ulster County’s COVID-19 case rate does not make it a hotspot, but said the case rate does speak to the need to vaccinate more people.

Currently, 65% of residents over age 12 are vaccinated, according to county data. The vaccination rate is above the national average, but not high enough, Smith said.

That has led the county to plan more vaccination clinics at high-traffic events like next week’s Ulster County Fair.

The county is also offering in-home options for vaccination.

Smith said her staff have been overwhelmed, but are still determined to lift vaccination rates.

“We’re so convinced vaccination is the answer,” she said. “When you do know that, it’s almost incumbent on us not to give up and to keep stressing it, and to keep hoping that people will change their minds if they’re dead set against us.”

Anyone unsure of their options, or unable to access the internet, is encouraged to call the county’s vaccination hotline at 845-443-8888 for more information.