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Coronavirus spreads to at least nine people in Los Angeles County homeless community
There have been nine confirmed cases of coronavirus among the Los Angeles County homeless community since Union Rescue Mission, a shelter dedicated to serving the poor on Skid Row, reported a staff member was hospitalized with COVID-19 earlier this week.
Al Petrocelli, firefighter who lost son on 9/11, dies of coronavirus
A beloved FDNY battalion chief from Staten Island who lost his son on 9/11 has died of coronavirus.
Al Petrocelli, 73, went to his doctor complaining of fatigue — he was sleeping around the clock, his wife Ginger said. He was diagnosed on March 24, a week before his death.
Jazz great Bucky Pizzarelli dies at 94 after testing positive for coronavirus
Jazz guitarist and New Jersey Hall of Famer John “Bucky” Pizzarelli died on Wednesday at his home, after testing positive for coronavirus on Sunday. Pizzarelli was 94.
Bronx public defenders want a judge to release a throng of violent suspects over coronavirus fears — including nine accused killers and a man shot after allegedly pointing a gun at cops, according to a document obtained by the Daily News.
Bronx Defenders has filed a writ seeking the release of 18 suspects.
In her nine years at Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side, Emily Fawcett has seen it all.
As a float nurse, she now jumps around from the emergency room to the COVID-19 units upstairs and everywhere in between as needed.
N.Y. has 6-day ventilator supply left in coronavirus fight: Cuomo
Gov. Cuomo made the dramatic revelation that the Empire State only has six days’ worth of ventilators on Thursday as he dispatched 400 life-saving machines to New York City hospitals and 200 more to suburban counties.
The breathing machines have become the crucial piece of equipment sought by state and city officials as hundreds of patients a day are admitted to intensive care units.
Shinzo Abe’s coronavirus mask plan slammed by Japanese residents
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is being skewered by his own people after floating a proposal of mailing just two reusable cloth face masks to each household sometime later this month.
The plan was quickly ridiculed by social media users, who sent the hashtag “screw your two masks” trending on Twitter Wednesday.
COVID-19 will not stop until we have herd immunity, and the only way for that to happen is through the development of a vaccine, exposure to the disease itself or some combination of the two. With that in mind, a more measured approach would focus on protecting the most vulnerable, while we radically ramp up testing so we can identify and isolate the ill and infected.
In order for us to now overcome the economic crisis caused by this pandemic, we must not just brace for the peak of the disease but get ahead of the curve. So far, our government has been working tirelessly to catch up by “tracking and tracing” the virus, testing the very ill and vulnerable and enforcing social distancing to flatten the curve.
Millions of people entered the United States from Britain, Italy, Spain and China as coronavirus spread worldwide in late 2019 and early 2020, according to a new report.
At least 3.4 million travelers from those four countries entered the U.S. in December, January and February, ABC News reported. While the outbreak began in China, the three European countries have also dealt with large numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases.
FDA approves first coronavirus blood test
A coronavirus test that measures antibodies in the blood was approved by the FDA for use on Thursday, marking a potential step forward not just for testing, but for detecting immunity to the virus and developing a vaccine.
‘Our hospitals better get ready’: Florida scales back local coronavirus shutdowns
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made it harder for local governments to enforce stricter guidelines than his state order — putting people at risk as coronavirus cases surge.
“Our hospitals better get ready, that’s all I’ve got to say,” a county exec told our sister paper Orlando Sentinel.
Javits Center in NYC to accept coronavirus patients
New York City’s Javits Center will accept coronavirus patients, Gov. Cuomo said Thursday, just days after beds reserved for people without COVID-19 became available there.
Cuomo announced the move late Thursday after making a request to President Trump to allow the facility to treat people with coronavirus.
New York City residents should cover their faces with scarves, bandannas or clothing when in public to stop the spread of coronavirus, Mayor de Blasio said Thursday.
But Hizzoner said surgical and N95 masks should be reserved for health care providers, first responders and those on the front lines of the pandemic.
President Trump pulled the trigger on the Defense Production Act for a second time Thursday to push another six private companies into producing ventilators for hospitals stretched thin because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump, who for weeks refused to activate the DPA over concerns that it was socialist, said in a statement released by the White House that he had activated the 1950 law to get General Electric and five medical supply companies to do the government’s bidding in building more of the crucial breathing assistance machines.
NYC asks residents to self report coronavirus status and symptoms in online portal
New York City is asking residents to report whether they’ve tested positive for coronavirus or have shown any symptoms.
New Yorkers were asked to “confidentially self-report COVID-19 status and symptoms” on an “engagement portal” in a text Thursday sent to those already signed up for the city’s mobile alert system on the pandemic.
Brooklyn elementary school teacher dies from coronavirus
A beloved Brooklyn elementary school teacher has died from coronavirus complications, according to her family.
Sandra Santos-Vizcaino, a third-grade teacher at P.S. 9 in Prospect Heights, died Tuesday night, the school’s principal wrote in a letter to staff.
Official worldwide coronavirus case count tops 1 million
The planet hit the less-than-ideal milestone Thursday afternoon, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Officially, more than 51,000 people worldwide have died from COVID-19.
Bodies left in streets of Ecuador’s biggest city as coronavirus ravages country
Guayaquil, a coastal city home to 2.8 million people, has been swamped by the COVID-19 pandemic like much of the world, the LA Times reported. But it has been uniquely incapable of handling the bodies of those who die from the disease.
Feds give away coronavirus protective gear seized from price-gouging hoarders
Federal agencies will distribute 192,000 N95 masks in New York and New Jersey that were seized from hoarders trying to sell them at inflated prices during the coronavirus crisis, officials said.
Feds must report coronavirus numbers in city’s jails, Brooklyn judge orders
The feds must report the number of people with coronavirus at three jails in the city, as well as the number of people in the facilities that they have tested — and they have to do it twice a week, a judge ordered Thursday.
Pentagon looking to buy 100,000 body bags as officials project massive spike in coronavirus deaths
The Pentagon is working to increase its stockpile of military-style body bags in anticipation of a potentially massive surge of coronavirus deaths in the U.S.
Italian family of four killed by coronavirus days apart
Family patriarch Alfredo Bertucci, 86, died Friday, after his youngest son, Claudio, 46, was killed by the virus. Claudio’s elder brother Daniele, 54, also died late last week. Soon after, the family’s 77-year-old matriarch, Angela Albergati, reportedly succumbed to the deadly infection too.
Leonardo DiCaprio helps launch $12M fund helping vulnerable populations amid coronavirus
The “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” star is helping to launch America’s Food Fund, of which he’s a co-founder, to help those facing particularly hard times during the global coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press reported Thursday. The fund has already raised $12 million.
Cops on Thursday arrested for manslaughter a woman they say fatally struck an elderly Brooklyn hospital patient for violating social distancing — the city’s first coronavirus-related homicide.
Texas city may fine, jail residents who do not cover their face
A city in Texas is now requiring residents in certain situations to cover their noses and mouths in public and may fine or even jail people who do not comply.
Coronavirus forces WHO and partners to suspend polio eradication programs
Coronavirus has forced the world’s polio-eradication experts to suspend mass vaccination efforts in the countries where the paralytic disease still resides, given the close-up nature of administering the oral medication.
Cruise ship with coronavirus patients will be allowed to dock in Florida
Nine people have tested positive for coronavirus on the Zaandam, while 179 other passengers have experienced flu-like symptoms. At least two people on that cruise ship have died from COVID-19. There have been four deaths overall.
SEE IT: Dozens flout coronavirus social distancing to attend Brooklyn outdoor funeral
Dozens of mourners in surgical masks crowded a Brooklyn street corner for a funeral, flouting the city’s orders to maintain social distancing as the coronavirus pandemic worsens, startling video making the rounds on social media shows.
Coronavirus continues to spread in NYC jails despite dwindling inmate population
Nearly 1,000 people have been released from city jails in under three weeks to curb the spread of coronavirus — but the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in local facilities on Thursday continued to climb.
A morbidly obese drug dealer who pleaded guilty to participating in a 2015 Long Island gang murder was denied temporary release by a federal judge Thursday, after his lawyer argued that the man’s weight put him at high risk of dying of coronavirus if he catches the disease in jail.
Call goes out to support sickened EMS members on the front lines of coronavirus pandemic
An “emergency fund” has been created for front-line city EMTs and paramedics left sickened as they fight the growing coronavirus pandemic, officials said Thursday.
Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez had their last workout before Florida lockdown in already-closed gym
The “Hustlers” star and boyfriend Alex Rodriguez worked some magic to hit the gym Wednesday afternoon, just hours before all gym doors in Florida were officially closed for a month.
Fake cops are doing coronavirus traffic stops in Colorado: report
Two Colorado cities have seen multiple reports of police impersonators conducting phony traffic stops related to the state’s coronavirus stay-at-home orders.
Andrew Parker Bowles, ex-husband of Duchess Camilla, tests positive for coronavirus
Andrew Parker Bowles, the ex-husband of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, has tested positive for coronavirus, according to the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
Broadway and television great Brian Stokes Mitchell diagnosed with coronavirus
The 62-year-old Tony Award winner announced his diagnosis on Wednesday night with a video posted to his Twitter account, broadcast from self isolation.
Malaysia’s Ministry for Women, Family and Community Development is facing backlash for an ad campaign advising wives to look pretty and not talk back while their husbands are obeying the coronavirus quarantine.
Parents owing back child support won’t get coronavirus stimulus checks
Don’t hold your breath for that $1,200 from Uncle Sam if you owe back child support.
A grown man from Missouri is facing a felony charge over a childish, stomach-churning incident in which he coughed on customers at a Dollar Store and used his fingers to write the word “COVID” on a cooler door after breathing on it, authorities said.
Grand Canyon National Park closes after resident tests positive for coronavirus
Grand Canyon National Park has officially closed to visitors at the recommendation of local health officials, who warned that doing otherwise could facilitate the spread of the novel coronavirus.
James Patterson donating $500K to help independent booksellers amid coronavirus
The “Kiss the Girls” author announced Thursday that he is donating $500,000 to help independent bookstores struggling as a result of the pandemic and is joining forces with Reese Witherspoon, the “Big Little Lies” star’s Reese’s Book Club, and Binc (Book Industry Charitable Foundation) to save these businesses.
Chris Cuomo having wacky dreams about governor brother ‘waving wand’ as he battles coronavirus
The coronavirus-stricken brother admitted having “hallucinations” about Andrew Cuomo as he battled a bout of feverish delusions Wednesday night.
Low-income NYC neighborhoods hit hardest by coronavirus: city data
New Yorkers living in low-income areas of the city’s outer-boroughs are more likely to contract coronavirus, newly released Health Department data suggests.
The Yankees’ union rep told Sirius/XM’s MLB Network Radio channel that empty stadiums and a neutral site for teams like the Yankees whose big league cities are hotspots for the virus are being discussed for when the game is able to resume.
258 people die of coronavirus in NYC in 24 hours as cases grow to more than 48,000
New York City saw 258 people die of coronavirus in 24 hours as the number of confirmed cases across the five boroughs grows closer to 50,000, health data shows.
Number of spring breakers infected with coronavirus after trip to Mexico jumps to 44
The number of Texas college students who have tested positive for coronavirus after returning from a poorly timed spring break trip to Mexico last month has jumped to 44, officials told the Daily News on Thursday.
New York has just six days’ supply of ventilators left.
Gov. Cuomo made the dramatic revelation as he said 400 life-saving machines to New York City hospitals and 200 to suburban counties. The governor said 432 more people died of coronavirus in New York state in the past day and the total number of cases kept marching. past 92,000.
Cardiac patients who flatline will no longer go to hospital under new coronavirus rules
Cardiac patients who flatline will not be taken to area hospitals for further care, according to a new directive handed down as the city continues to battle the rise in coronavirus cases.
The new orders from the Regional Emergency Medical Services Council of New York City say that “no adult non-traumatic or blunt traumatic cardiac arrest is to be transported to a hospital with manual or mechanical compressions in progress” unless the person’s heart restarts at the scene.
N.Y. has just six days of ventilators as 432 New Yorkers die of coronavirus and cases rise over 92,000: Cuomo
Don’t litter NYC sidewalks with used face masks or gloves during coronavirus: Mayor de Blasio
Discarding face masks and gloves on city sidewalks is dangerous because the protective gear could spread coronavirus if someone picks them up to toss in trash cans, Mayor de Blasio said Thursday.
Anyone who witnesses someone throwing face masks or gloves on the ground instead of in the trash should call 311 to report the “dangerous” behavior, according to the mayor.
Philippines president gives authorities okay to shoot those violating coronavirus lockdown orders
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is allowing for the use of deadly force against those found violating lockdown standards implemented in an effort curtail the spread of the coronavirus.
Duterte emphasized the importance of respecting the quarantine guidelines as authorities work to slow the virus.
Patriots do what federal government can’t, deliver 1.2 million N95 masks from China
With Donald Trump saying the federal government is just a “backup” to states desperately trying to get medical supplies, governors have begged the president that “We need a Tom Brady.”
This week, Brady’s old employer cut through a mountain of red tape to deliver a shipment of N95 masks from China.
Dr. Fauci gets beefed-up security as far right brands coronavirus a hoax
Dr. Anthony Fauci has attracted a significant number of threats along with kudos, especially as he warns the nation of previously unthinkable death tolls from the pandemic.
Now, the feds have ordered stepped-up security for America’s top pandemic doctor.
Unemployment claims double to 6.65 million as coronavirus recession bites
New unemployment claims soared to a record 6.65 million Thursday, setting a record for the second straight week as coronavirus sends the economy into a tailspin.
The shocking jobless report from the Labor Department effectively means America is now in a deep recession spurred by the widespread nationwide shutdown.
The WHO is “deeply concerned” about the “rapid escalation and global spread” of the potentially deadly coronavirus, warning the number of confirmed cases worldwide will climb to 1 million and that the death toll will surge past 50,000 in a matter of days.
Sociologist and NYC’s most famous neighborhood explorer, William Helmreich, dies of COVID-19
Sociologist William Helmreich, who famously chronicled his efforts to walk down every street of New York City, has died from the coronavirus, City College of New York reported.
The author of “The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City,” was 74.
Coronavirus claims life of world-renowned HIV/AIDS researcher Gita Ramjee
Coronavirus has claimed the life of Gita Ramjee, a world-renowned South African virologist and HIV/AIDS expert who specialized in treatment and prevention, especially for women.
She was about 50, according to the Indian news outlet Business Today.
NYC homeless services workers hit with coronavirus are ‘dropping like flies’ without protective gear
Homeless service workers are begging the city and state for gear to protect them against coronavirus, but are being armed with only wet wipes, hand sanitizer and masks they procure on their own, sources said.
“We started dropping like flies,” said one Department of Homeless Services peace officer who works at the Wards Island Men’s Shelter and has been sidelined with COVID-19 since mid-March. “Eventually everyone is going to get it.”
Pennsylvania county with no health department reeling from coronavirus
A suburban Philadelphia county has been particularly pummeled by the coronavirus because it lacks a health department.
Pennsylvania’s Delaware County, which abuts Philadelphia County, has been compelled to lean on neighboring counties and state services in Harrisburg — some 65 miles away — for desperately needed assistance, reported NBC News.
France’s strict coronavirus crackdown leading to fines and prison sentences
France is sending a stern message to coronavirus scofflaws: If you wander, you’re heading to jail.
As the death toll eclipsed 4,000 Wednesday in the European nation of 67 million residents, law enforcement is strictly enforcing self-isolation policies.
Choir practice in Washington leads to multiple coronavirus deaths
A choir in Washington State believed that they were taking the necessary precautions to prevent the spread of coronavirus at their practice on March 10. But a few weeks later, 75% of attendees are sick, and two of them are dead because of COVID-19.
“This has been an extremely difficult and sad time for chorale members and leadership,” the Skagit Valley Chorale said. “Our group feels like a family, so you might imagine our grief.”
Traffic agent, 33, is NYPD’s latest suspected coronavirus death
An NYPD traffic agent from Brooklyn who helped her mom raise her four younger siblings became the sixth suspected coronavirus death in the department Wednesday.
Karisma Dargan, 33, joined the NYPD in 2017, and worked in its Brooklyn North tow yard. The NYPD is still awaiting her virus test results, department officials said.
British doctors told to shave beards during coronavirus outbreak
Hospital administrators in the United Kingdom have begun inspecting the beards of physicians and insisting men with 5 o’clock shadow shave immediately to ensure the integrity of face masks.
A general practitioner in Suffolk, England, learned this lesson the hard way on Tuesday after being cited for unacceptable stubble. For his transgression he was handed a shaving kit.
The city is launching a “Herculean” effort to boost publicly run hospitals’ capacity to treat coronavirus patients.
Starting this month, the 11 sites in the NYC Health + Hospitals system will add 762 beds for intensive care patients, while the city will set up 10,000 hospital beds for other kinds of care at 20 hotels throughout the city, Mayor de Blasio announced Wednesday.
HALFWAY TO HELL: Brooklyn facility with four positive coronavirus tests is teeming with sick inmates
Four people at a Brooklyn halfway house have tested positive for the coronavirus — but that doesn’t account for sick inmates who haven’t been tested at the facility, the Daily News has learned.
Joe Exotic from ‘Tiger King’ is in ‘quarantine’ as coronavirus spreads
Joe Exotic, the star of the runaway Netflix docu-series about the backstabbing world of big cat collectors was isolated in a federal medical center in Fort Worth, Texas, where he’s serving a 22-year sentence for conspiracy to commit murder.
Award-winning songwriter and Fountains of Wayne member Adam Schlesinger dies of coronavirus
Adam Schlesinger, a founding member of the pop-punk band Fountains of Wayne and an award-winning songwriter for TV and film, died on Wednesday morning of complications from coronavirus. He was 52 years old.
Rush Limbaugh devastated by cost of coronavirus — in dollars
“Most people” are telling right-wing conspiracy theorist Rush Limbaugh that coronavirus is being used by Democrats to end capitalism in America. He doesn’t like where this is headed.
Kylie and Kris Jenner team up with Coty to donate hand sanitizers to southern California hospitals
Kylie and Kris Jenner have joined forces with beauty and cosmetics conglomerate Coty to produce hand sanitizer for southern California hospitals during the coronavirus crisis.
Newborn Connecticut baby is believed to have died of coronavirus complications
A 6-week-old newborn who died in Connecticut last week tested positive for coronavirus, the state’s governor said Wednesday.
Gov. Cuomo projects 16,000 New Yorkers could die from coronavirus, as state’s death toll nears 2,000
Sixteen thousand New Yorkers could die from coronavirus before the pandemic scourge is defeated, Gov. Cuomo said Wednesday, as the state’s death toll approached 2,000 and the city enacted new restrictions to curb the spread of the disease.
Iceland’s coronavirus testing suggests 50% of cases have no symptoms
About half of the people infected by coronavirus in Iceland show no symptoms of the disease, according to a new study.
Since January, I have been on sabbatical in Madrid from the school outside San Francisco where I’ve worked for 20 years. For the last three weeks, my wife, our two daughters and I have been on lockdown here in the Spanish capital in our rented apartment as the city and increasingly, the world, is in the throes of the coronavirus.
The wife of singer and songwriter Alan Merrill, who died of coronavirus Sunday in New York, is calling attention to the country’s “lack of preparation” for the ongoing pandemic by sharing a devastating account of her husband’s final hours.
A northern California emergency official took his family to the beach in defiance of a shelter-in-place order that he himself recommended, The Press Democrat reported.
A same-sex couple in southern France has been told to vacate their home in a menacing letter linking homosexuality to the new coronavirus.
Caring nurse enables FaceTime farewell for daughter of patient dying of coronavirus
Carolann Christine Gann’s family could not be with her in her last moments, but thanks to a caring nurse’s cellphone, her daughter was able to “visit” the 75-year-old via FaceTime as she lay dying of COVID-19, caused by coronavirus.
Coronavirus may have spread at Super Bowl in Miami, Florida governor says
Coronavirus may have spread at the Super Bowl, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a press conference Tuesday.
NYC Mayor de Blasio announced on Wednesday that O’Neill, who stepped down as top cop last year, will create a “supply inspection regime” to check on hospitals and make sure they get the supplies they need, according to the mayor.
Dow plummets more than 900 points as coronavirus continues to crush Wall Street
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dove more than 973 points Wednesday as the coronavirus crisis continues to crush Wall Street.
SEE IT: This is how far a swab has to go into your nasal cavity during coronavirus test
A graphic illustration of the nasal swab test is causing people to cringe and convincing many of them to heed the warnings from health officials and stay home during this relentless pandemic.
A Manhattan real estate mogul and longtime friend of President Trump slipped into a coma after a coronavirus diagnosis, influencing the White House’s change of heart for an Easter Sunday relaxing of COVID-19 restrictions, according to Vanity Fair magazine.
SEE IT: Amy Schumer and 10-month-old son bring sign to visit her dad while social distancing
The comedian shared an adorable Instagram video showing her outside an unidentified building as she holds up her 10-month-old son, Gene, with one hand and a poster in the other.
Prince Charles says he’s on ‘other side’ of coronavirus illness
The 71-year-old heir to the throne said his COVID-19 symptoms were fairly tame, and he spent much of the four-minute video, published on the official Clarence House Twitter page, praising the work of health care workers amid the crisis.
AOC, Maloney request FDA to lift ban on gay men donating blood amid coronavirus shortages
A couple of New York City congresswomen urged federal regulators Wednesday to lift a ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, charging the “antiquated policy” is stifling efforts to beef up the nation’s blood supply amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library bleeds money during coronavirus closing
A letter sent to donors from executive director John Heubusch, obtained by TMZ, expressed concern that the Simi Valley, Calif., facility was struggling to stay afloat since its March 13 coronavirus-related closure.
Biden offers to phone Trump to discuss coronavirus, calling White House bluff
Joe Biden reportedly offered Wednesday to call President Trump to discuss the battle against coronavirus after the White House taunted him about staying quiet during the crisis.
SEE IT: Samuel L. Jackson tells people to stay home amid coronavirus pandemic – as only he can
Samuel L. Jackson shared some very prudent advice during the coronavirus pandemic: “Stay the F–k at Home.”
Son uses cherry picker to visit mom on third floor of assisted living home
Ohio arborist Charley Adams knew his 80-year-old mom was pining for a visit amid a coronavirus quarantine at her assisted living home, so he used his bucket truck to surprise her.
The man who tested positive is a hospitality worker who lives at a dorm inside the park works for park concessionaire Delaware North. He’s been in isolation for several days.
Mark Cuban no longer optimistic about a May restart for NBA
Mark Cuban has raised the rim but is still hopeful about the NBA restarting because “sports are great for America.”
VIDEO: Eli Manning thanks New York Presbyterian health care workers for heroic coronavirus fight
Manning recorded a video thanking all of the health care workers at New York-Presbyterian Hospital for their work on the front lines of the coronavirus fight.
Dolly Parton donates $1 million to towards coronavirus treatment research at Vanderbilt University
Dolly Parton took to Twitter Wednesday to reveal she’ll be donating to Vanderbilt University to further research for a coronavirus cure.
New York City firefighters who are also trained as paramedics and EMTs will be assisting the FDNY’s overloaded medical services bureau as part of a “doomsday scenario” to deal with the surging coronavirus pandemic, the Daily News has learned.
Andrew Cuomo says dad Mario would be proud of ‘gutsy’ coronavirus-stricken Chris
Gov. Cuomo paid the ultimate compliment Wednesday to his coronavirus-stricken brother: Dad would be proud of you.
A massive protest against the handling of the coronavirus crisis by the far-right president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has brought quarantined Brazilians to their windows armed with pots and pans.
Stabbing attack on Asian family ruled a coronavirus-related hate crime: FBI
The brutal stabbing attack of an Asian-American family, including a 2-year-old girl, at a Texas Sam’s Club is being investigated as a hate crime, according to the FBI.
Newborn and mom put at risk by dad who hid coronavirus symptoms from hospital workers
A new mom is reportedly showing symptoms of COVID-19 after her husband, who had been exposed to coronavirus, concealed his symptoms so he could visit her at Rochester, N.Y.’s Strong Memorial Hospital’s maternity ward.
The unidentified man admitted he had been feeling ill after being exposed to the virus, but chose not to tell health care officials until his wife’s symptoms came into question last week after she’d given birth.
Florida finally announces ‘stay at home’ coronavirus order
After weeks of refusal, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis finally issued a 30-day “stay at home” order to his residents in an attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus.
The order goes into effect Thursday night.
Dozens of long-term care patients from a New Jersey hospital facility were moved to a nearby motel as a measure to help keep them safer from the coronavirus.
The patients are residents at an independent-living housing facility belonging to St. Mary’s General Hospital in Passaic. And, according to a report, were moved from that facility and given rooms at the Econo Lodge motel in Carlstadt.
ER doctor dies in husband’s arms in their NYC apartment six days after showing COVID-19 symptoms
An ER doctor who had survived cancer died in his husband’s arms in their New York City apartment just six days after he started showing symptoms of COVID-19.
Dr. Frank Gabrin, 60, an ER doctor at New Jersey’s East Orange General Hospital, had stayed home from work since March 26 after he began suffering coronavirus-like symptoms.
Coronavirus claims nearly 400 more lives in New York State; 43 died in NYC
Nearly 400 New Yorkers died of coronavirus overnight, 43 of them in the Big Apple, official said Wednesday.
The city’s death toll came to 1,139 on Wednesday morning, according to Mayor de Blasio’s office.
Cuomo says 83,000 coronavirus cases in NYS; 16,000 deaths predicted: data report
Gov. Cuomo said 391 New Yorkers died in the past day of coronavirus — and presented a model that predicts 16,000 will die in the state before the pandemic is done.
He gave the grim update, including cases soaring to 83,000, while warning that officials have yet to see a sign of the elusive “flattening of the curve” in cases or deaths.
Bernie Sanders is pushing for delaying the Wisconsin primary that is scheduled for next Tuesday.
“People should not be forced to put their lives on the line to vote,” Sen. Sanders says.
Carnival Cruise Lines cancels more trips, including some in late 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to decimate its business, Carnival Cruise Lines has announced a series of major cancellations, calling off multiple trips that were scheduled for the summer and even the end of the year.
The beleaguered cruise operator said Wednesday that all ships that were set to sail through May 11 have been canceled.
A man claiming he tested positive for coronavirus — and armed with a knife and gun — was shot and wounded by police while attempting “suicide by cop” in the Bronx, authorities said.
“He told police that he had tested positive for the virus earlier yesterday,” an NYPD spokesman said. “He called 911 on himself. It appears he was hoping cops would shoot him — that was the point of his confrontation.”
More than 6,000 Carnival cruise passengers remain at sea amid coronavirus outbreak
Thousands and thousands of Carnival passengers are stuck on ships at sea while the coronavirus continues to rip through nations all over the world.
“There are approximately 6,000 passengers onboard ships still at sea that are expected to disembark their passengers by the end of April,” says Carnival Corp.
Rep. Adam Schiff wants commission to probe coronavirus pandemic once it’s over
Love him or hate him, you gotta admit Rep. Adam Schiff likes a good investigation, even before it starts.
The Democratic lawmaker who spearheaded the impeachment probe of President Trump is pre-pushing for a bipartisan 9/11-style commission to probe the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Turkmenistan threatens to jail people who use the word ‘coronavirus’: reports
Mentioning the word coronavirus may land you in jail.
Turkmenistan, a highly secretive and oil-rich country in central Asia, removed the word “coronavirus” from health brochures and is threatening to arrest anyone who utters the term or is seen wearing face masks.
Rapping cooperator Tekashi69 is one step closer to early release due to coronavirus
A federal judge wrote Wednesday he will order Tekashi69 be released early from his two-year sentence due to the coronavirus pandemic — if he has the authority.
Manhattan federal judge invited input from federal prosecutors on whether he could order Tekashi69 into home confinement because the rapping cooperating witness suffers from asthma, which makes him a heightened risk for contracting COVID-19.
Wimbledon cancelled amid coronavirus pandemic
Wimbledon has been cancelled.
“It is with great regret that the Main Board of the All England Club (AELTC) and the Committee of Management of The Championships have today decided that The Championships 2020 will be cancelled due to public health concerns linked to the coronavirus epidemic,” the statement says.
Cruise ships with coronavirus patients will be sequestered at sea ‘indefinitely,’ says Coast Guard
With thousands of people stranding on cruise ships not being allowed to make landfall, even as the number of coronavirus cases increasing on board, the Coast Guard has warned that the liners should prepare to remain at sea “indefinitely.”
“This is necessary as shore-side medical facilities may reach full capacity and lose the ability to accept and effectively treat additional critically-ill patients,” the Coast Guard said.
Heartwarming video shows a 98-year-old woman meeting her newborn great-granddaughter through a car window.
“We drove to meet half way between Chicago and Milwaukee but because of the current situation, we weren’t able to get out of the car,” the baby’s father said.
Coronavirus may have lower death rate than initially thought, new study says
The coronavirus mortality rate could actually be lower than initially suggested, according to a new study which also accounts for cases that have not been diagnosed.
Research in the medical journal, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, suggests about 0.66% of those infected with the virus will die. It’s markedly less than medical experts’ estimates in recent weeks, which have typically landed between a 1 and 3% death rate.
Brooklyn judge Johnny Lee Baynes, 64, dead after coronavirus complications
A Brooklyn judge died of pneumonia related to coronavirus, officials confirmed to the Daily News.
Johnny Lee Baynes, 64, was a Brooklyn judge since 2005 and served in Civil Court in Downtown Brooklyn. He was known among peers as a fair jurist, who gave time to anyone who came before the court.
New Jersey baseball coach, 30, dies of coronavirus days after leaving hospital
A New Jersey community is mourning the loss of a 30-year-old high school baseball coach who died from complications of coronavirus Monday, just three days after being discharged from a hospital.
Ben Luderer, a teacher and varsity baseball coach with the Cliffside Park School District in Bergen County, went to the hospital on Friday after feeling sick and experiencing coronavirus symptoms.
Iran’s coronavirus death toll passes 3,000
More than 3,000 people in Iran have died from coronavirus so far, according to health officials.
An additional 138 people died in the last 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 3,036.
Wyoming is now the only state without a coronavirus death
Hawaii became the 49th state to report a coronavirus death late Tuesday, leaving just Wyoming without a fatality.
At least 120 people in the state have tested positive for coronavirus so far. Most of the cases are concentrated in a few counties, including Teton, Laramie and Fremont.
California nursing home faces coronavirus outbreak; more than 50 residents test positive
Dozens of residents at a Yucaipa, Calif., nursing home have tested positive for coronavirus as health officials fear another deadly cluster.
Six employees and 51 residents at Cedar Mountain Post Acute Rehabilitation have been diagnosed so far.
Confirmed coronavirus cases in Spain surge past 100,000
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Spain surged past 100,000 as the nation recorded its highest daily death toll since the global pandemic unfolded.
In the last 24 hours, Spain has reported 7,719 new cases, which brings the nationwide total to 102,136 as of Wednesday morning. The health ministry said fatalities linked to the novel coronavirus also climbed to just under 10,000.
Neurosurgeon renowned for separating conjoined twins dies of coronavirus
Pioneering pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. James Goodrich, renowned for separating conjoined twins whose heads were fused together, died Monday of coronavirus complications, the hospital where he worked announced.
He was 73, according to The Journal News.
Another cruise ship with coronavirus concerns heads to Florida
Florida has become a popular destination for cruise ships hit with potential outbreaks of coronavirus, and another is planning to head its way.
According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, a Princess Cruises ship with a “higher than normal” number of flu cases is planning to arrive at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday.
Nurses and doctors at Jacobi Medical Center are on a “suicide mission” — exposed, along with their patients, to coronavirus because of inadequate protective equipment, a veteran nurse at the Bronx facility told the Daily News.
“We just had a nurse who passed away over the weekend from this,” said Kelley Cabrera, who’s worked at Jacobi for five years. “We are starting to see our own fall sick. Who’s going to replace us?”
Let’s socially distance ourselves from animals: A coronavirus lesson
As we watch the slow-motion disaster that is COVID-19 spreading across the globe, many of us are left wondering: How did we get here? How do we make sure something like this doesn’t happen again?
A key part of the answer to these questions lies in our disturbing, unbalanced relationship with the rest of the animal kingdom. It is suspected that COVID-19 came from a Chinese “wet market” where densely-packed animals live and die together in huge numbers, a perfect breeding ground for zoonotic diseases.
New York’s coronavirus shut-ins join the world in nightly applause for service workers
Cooped up in our apartments, there’s not a lot many New Yorkers can do but shout and applaud the people who keep life moving along — medical personnel, trash collectors, food service people, subway workers, and others.
Every night at 7 p.m., people around the city lean out of their windows or take to the sidewalk to clap, yell, bang pots or ring cowbells.
95-year-old Oregon man recovers from coronavirus
A 95-year-old Oregon man has recovered from coronavirus, much to the delight of generations of his family.
Bill Kelly, a WWII veteran, lives in McMinnville, about 40 miles southwest of Portland, with his granddaughter, her mother, her husband and her 5-year-old and 11-month-old children.
Trump admin projects at least 100,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths, warns of ‘painful’ weeks ahead
The nation’s top infectious disease experts predicted Tuesday that 100,000 coronavirus deaths in the U.S. is a best case scenario, as President Trump warned of “very, very painful” weeks ahead.
Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, the top health advisers on Trump’s coronavirus task force, offered the extremely alarming projection during a briefing at the White House.
Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio warned Tuesday that New York has likely only seen the tip of the coronavirus iceberg, even as the state’s death toll topped 1,500 and city hospital staff scrambled to make room for thousands of new COVID-19 patients.
Russian doctor says he has tested positive for coronavirus days after meeting with Vladimir Putin
A Moscow medical man said Tuesday that he had tested positive for coronavirus, days after the doctor showed Russian President Vladimir Putin around a hospital in the city.
One week ago, Dr. Denis Protsenko was seen chatting with Putin at the Kommunarka hospital in Moscow, and the two shook hands, Reuters reported.
Navy captain wants sailors off ship struck by coronavirus
The captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt sent a brusque memo to top Navy leaders Monday warning that coronavirus was spreading on the aircraft carrier and requested that sailors aboard the ship should be quarantined on shore.
The carrier is currently docked in Guam with infected crew members quarantined and others being tested.
6 nuns at Italian convent dead, 9 hospitalized with coronavirus
Six sisters from a small convent in northern Italy have died from coronavirus complications, while nine are currently being treated at a hospital, according to the Catholic News Agency.
Earlier this month, an outbreak in the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity Mother House in Tortona led the Red Cross to evacuate nearly half of the 40 sisters from the community.
If New Yorkers listen to any piece of advice during this public health crisis, it should be this: If you are not an essential worker needed on the front lines of this pandemic, please stay home.
Last week, the MTA implemented the Essential Service Plan — a plan that allows us to continue to serve the essential workers of New York, even as more and more of our employees are impacted by COVID-19.
U.S. coronavirus death toll passes China’s, where virus started
More people in the United States have now died from coronavirus than in China, where the novel virus originated.
The American COVID-19 death toll stood at 3,440 on mid-Tuesday afternoon, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins.
Feces and urine dripped onto prisoners in a ninth-floor housing unit in the Manhattan Detention Complex, forcing them to wear bags over their heads for two days in March whenever they used their telephone area.
A team of detainees was assigned to clean up the overflow from a toilet leak on the 10th floor above them — and they did so without protective gear, leading them to fear they might contract coronavirus from the fecal matter, an ex-inmate told the Daily News.
Police charge another megachurch pastor who brazenly flouted governor’s ban on large gatherings
A Louisiana pastor who drew outrage in recent days by repeatedly packing his megachurch with hundreds of worshipers despite a statewide ban on large gatherings was charged with six misdemeanors on Tuesday.
Tony Spell, who also reportedly claimed he can cure coronavirus, was issued the summons two days after about 500 people attended his Sunday service at The Life Tabernacle Church in Central, a city near Baton Rouge.
Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show free through May 15 to offer ‘diversion’ amid coronavirus
Howard Stern and SiriusXM said Tuesday that listeners will get free access to “The Howard Stern Show” and other premium content across North America until May 15.
“With so many people asked to stay at home, we are making our full streaming lineup of music, entertainment, news and information easily accessible to everyone,” SiriusXM boss Jim Meyer said in a statement.
10 NYC playgrounds to close to stop coronavirus spread
New York City will close 10 playgrounds across the five boroughs where people consistently ignored official warnings to socially distance to stop the spread of coronavirus.
NYC alternate-side parking suspended through mid-April to help stop coronavirus spread
New York City has suspended alternate-side parking through at least April 14 during the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday.
Trump proclaims ‘Infrastructure Week’ – pushes building plan for next coronavirus stimulus
President Trump is pushing a new $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package that would focus on putting America back to work by rebuilding our crumbling roads, bridges and rails.
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Call for New York to raise taxes on ultra-rich instead of cutting Medicaid during coronavirus
State lawmakers should oppose cuts to Medicaid and tax the ultra rich to cover any funding shortfalls amid the coronavirus pandemic, New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said Tuesday.
New study estimates coronavirus death rate is under 1%
The overall death rate for coronavirus infections is about 0.66%, according to a study published Monday in a peer-reviewed British medical journal, a clip lower than previous estimates but still vastly worse than the seasonal flu.
Grieving family says goodbye to dying coronavirus-stricken mom via walkie talkie
The six children of 42-year-old widow Sundee Rutter could only stare helplessly through a small window into their mother’s isolation room and speak to her via a walkie-talkie, its counterpart propped on her pillow, they told BuzzFeed News.
Andrew Jack, ‘Star Wars’ actor and ‘Lord of the Rings’ dialect coach, dies from coronavirus at 76
Andrew Jack, a longtime movie dialect coach who also appeared in multiple “Star Wars” films, has died of complications from coronavirus.
He was 76.
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively donate $400K to New York hospitals
According to E! News, the actors personally reached out to four of New York state’s hardest-hit hospitals to gift them $100,000 each.
Dozens of spring breakers from Texas test positive for coronavirus after trip to Mexico
The group — about 70 people in their 20s — decided to take a chartered flight from Austin to Cabo San Lucas about a week and a half ago despite repeated warnings against unnecessary international travel, including a global do-not-travel advisory issued by the U.S. government on March 19.
Droplets carrying coronavirus can travel up to 27 feet, according to MIT researcher
Lydia Bourouiba, an associate professor at MIT who has done extensive research on the dynamics of exhalations, has found that some coughs or sneezes can create a cloud of gas that can travel up to 27 feet.
Dr. Andrews says he will stop performing Tommy John surgeries during coronavirus crisis
Dr. James Andrews temporarily suspended performing Tommy John elbow surgeries at his medical facility in Gulf Breeze, Fla., citing governor Ron DeSantis’ executive order delaying elective medical procedures.
N.Y. Rep. Max Rose deploys for National Guard service in war against coronavirus
The freshman Democrat announced Tuesday he’s reenlisting in the U.S. military to be deployed as part of a National Guard platoon fighting the virus on his native Staten Island.
Health care workers warned they could lose jobs for speaking out amid coronavirus crisis
On Friday, NYU Langone Health employees received a notice cautioning that anyone who spoke to the media without authorization could be “subject to disciplinary action, including termination,” Bloomberg News reported.
17 members of British family contract coronavirus from attending funeral
Seventeen British relatives have contracted coronavirus after they attended the funeral of a family member.
Police Commissioner Shea worried domestic violence not being reported during lockdown
“What I’m concerned about is it’s happening and it’s not getting reported,” Shea said on Twitter.
Airbnb vows $250 million to help hosts losing reservations due to coronavirus
The lodging company announced Monday that customers can get a full refund if they cancel their reservations due to COVID-19, and that Airbnb will pay the owners of those residences 25% of what they would have made had the booking not been nixed.
Demi Lovato to donate $125K from Fabletics collection toward coronavirus fight
The “I Love Me” singer took to Twitter Tuesday to reveal she’s moving ahead with the April 12 launch of her Fabletics collection and donating a portion of the profits toward fighting the pandemic.
“We’re no longer taking the advice of the CDC and the World Health Organization,” agency chairman Pat Foye said on MSNBC Tuesday.
China orders major sports to remain suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak
China’s government on Tuesday ordered all major sports events to remain suspended because of the coronavirus outbreak, meaning the country’s basketball league will have to push back its planned restart.
Going viral: Coronavirus death totals are rising, but social distancing is working
If we don’t do things almost perfectly, failing to keep in place strong social distancing as long as necessary so that already overwhelmed hospitals drown in cases? Shudder to think.
Florida governor doesn’t want coronavirus cruise ‘dumped’ in state
Even as Holland America’s Zandaam cruise line sails for Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis has threatened not to let the ship make landfall.
Gov. Cuomo: 75,000 confirmed coronavirus cases
Gov. Cuomo offered grim numbers at his daily presser in Albany on Tuesday as an additional 272 New Yorkers died of coronavirus in the past day as the pandemic keeps ravaging NYC and its suburbs.
Lizzo donates lunches to ER staffs to thank them for fighting on front lines of coronavirus
The “Good as Hell” songstress paid it forward Monday when she provided lunch to multiple emergency room staffs around the country amid the coronavirus pandemic wreaking havoc on health care systems worldwide, CNN reports.
NYC coronavirus cases top 40,000 with 932 people dead
New York City has 40,900 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York City as of Tuesday morning, a nearly 13% increase from 36,221 at 10:30 a.m. Monday.
142 people have died of coronavirus in 23 hours as the number of confirmed cases, and so far coronavirus has killed 932 people across the five boroughs. This story is developing.
Brother of N.Y. governor, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, tests positive for coronavirus
Chris Cuomo, host of CNN’s “Prime Time” and brother of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, has tested positive for coronavirus. Cuomo, 49, said he has felt “fever, chills and shortness of breath” after being exposed to people who have since been diagnosed.
Dr. Fauci gives America uplifting coronavirus bedside message
The infectious disease expert said told Americans “get over this” if we continue strict shutdowns and social distancing. America’s doctor also weighed in on mask wearing rules and Trump’s touted anti-malaria drug.
Belgian girl, 12, becomes Europe’s youngest known coronavirus victim
Officials believe she’s Europe’s youngest victim since the pandemic began sweeping across the continent. Belgium has confirmed nearly 13,000 cases of coronavirus and more than 700 deaths.
Mike Francesa flips on Trump over claim he’s doing ‘good job’ on coronavirus
Mike Francesa blowhard has seen enough when the commander in chief suggested he will have done a good job if 100,000 or 200,000 Americans die from coronavirus.
“How is that a good job in our country?” Francesa asked on his popular WFAN radio show. “Not if another 198,000 people die. So now 200,000 people are disposable?”
Dr. Fauci says ‘we’ll get through this’ in uplifting coronavirus bedside message
Dr. Anthony Fauci calmly told Americans on Tuesday that we can “get over this” if we continue to observe strict shutdowns and social distancing.
“We really have to hang in there,” Fauci told CNN. “So let’s all hang in there together. We will get over this and this will end.”
Fired Amazon worker Christian Smalls, suddenly the unemployed father of three kids, posed a simple question to his former employer.
“How do you fire somebody in the middle of a pandemic?” asked Smalls, who lost his job one day earlier after organizing a protest outside the retail giant’s Staten Island warehouse over allegedly dangerous coronavirus conditions inside.
Coronavirus pandemic ‘far from over’ in Asia, Pacific region, WHO warns
Though the latest numbers out of China and beyond indicate that he spread of the coronavirus is slowing, the World Health Organization has warned the epidemic “is far from over” in Asia and the greater Pacific region.
Since the illness first emerged in Wuhan, a Chinese city in the province of Hubei, in late 2019, the nation has recorded 82,276 cases with 3,187 deaths.
Women giving birth in N.Y. hospitals during the coronavirus shutdown will no longer have to go it alone, but the state-issued mandate has some medical workers and mothers-to-be worried.
The order issued by Gov. Cuomo requires hospitals to allow one support person throughout labor and delivery and the immediate postpartum period, according to Melissa DeRosa, the chairwoman of NYS Council on Women and Girls.
New coronavirus test can provide results in as little as 5 minutes
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency-use authorization for a new coronavirus test that can provide results in as little as five minutes, a potential game-changing development in the country’s battle against the deadly pandemic.
Medical-device maker Abbott said the test will run on an existing portable machine that can be used by a physician’s office or an urgent care clinic, not just by hospitals.
Eight coronavirus-related deaths reported at one N.J. nursing home: mayor
A nursing home in New Jersey is on lockdown after eight residents died from coronavirus in recent days, officials said.
They also warned that several staff members and other residents at Lakeland Nursing Home in Haskell have tested positive for COVID-19.
Gov. Cuomo has fended off rumors of a White House or vice-presidential run as his approval ratings soar in New York and beyond. He has won kudos for his handling of the city and state in the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis.
“The answer is no,” the governor said.
250 more ambulances coming to NYC for surge in 911 calls from coronavirus pandemic
New York City will get 250 more ambulances and some 500 more EMTs and paramedics to help medical personnel respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
Fifty new ambulances will be added a day all week under a partnership with FEMA and the city to assist the FDNY with responding to a record number of 911 calls and increase capacity for transport between medical sites and hospitals.
11 veterans dead, at least 5 from coronavirus, at Massachusetts soldiers’ home
The deaths of nearly a dozen veterans at a Massachusetts soldiers’ home, almost half of them from complications linked to the coronavirus, have triggered an investigation and the suspension of the facility’s superintendent.
In the last month, 11 veterans at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke have died, five of them from COVID-19, according to the Department of Veterans Services.
‘Unacceptable’: NYC Mayor de Blasio hits New Yorkers for crowding to watch USNS Comfort’s arrival
Mayor de Blasio blasted New Yorkers who crowded to see the USNS Comfort arrive in the city for failing to spread out to help stop the transmission of coronavirus.
“That’s unacceptable,” de Blasio said on NBC’s “TODAY” show Monday when asked about the onlookers who didn’t practice social distancing while cramping together to watch the naval hospital ship dock at Pier 90 on the Upper West Side.
Spain reports record 849 coronavirus deaths in one day
Health officials said Tuesday that 849 people died from coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the highest death toll since the outbreak began.
That brings the total deaths to 8,189, according to the Health Ministry, second only to Italy around the world.
Worst of NYC coronavirus pandemic could last until May: de Blasio
NYC Mayor de Blasio gave a grim prognostication as to what New Yorkers will be facing during an interview on NBC’s “Today” show.
“What we’re seeing is a sharp upturn [of coronavirus cases] over the last days, certainly the last few weeks,” said de Blasio. “We have to look at this pattern and conclude that the worst is certainly in the next few weeks minimum, I could see it going into May.”
Coronavirus death toll surges past 3,000 in United States
The number of people killed by the coronavirus in the United States surged past 3,000, bringing the national death toll ever-closer to the one in China, where the outbreak first began months ago.
The country has recorded 3,170 deaths with a total of 164,610 cases as of Tuesday morning. Of those, more than 38,000 have emerged in New York, where 914 people have died from the illness.
U.S. Open complex in Queens will house 350-bed hospital
A 350-bed field hospital is set to open at the Queens tennis complex that hosts the U.S. Open, city officials confirmed Monday.
The hospital, which will likely be used for non-coronavirus patients, will be built in an indoor training facility in the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Mayor de Blasio spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein said.
Amid surge of coronavirus-sickened police officers, deaths of two members of NYPD announced
The NYPD announced Monday that two more members of its ranks have died, as the numbers of officers calling out sick amid the pandemic continued to rise.
School safety agent Sabrina Jefferson, 63, who joined the NYPD in 1994 and was assigned to Patrol Borough Queens South School Safety, died Sunday from COVID-19 complications, officials said.
WHO reiterates no-mask advice, saying it does not prevent one from getting coronavirus
To mask or not to mask? Global health experts advise against it, unless you are caring for someone with coronavirus, or are infected yourself.
Big Apple hotels will be rented en masse by the city and turned into hospitals to ease the burden on health care facilities overwhelmed by coronavirus, Mayor de Blasio said Monday.
He said Monday that the city, state and feds are working on renting rooms — “in some cases, leasing entire hotels” — to provide non-intensive care for COVID patients and others.
Trump doubles down about mask shortages at NYC hospitals amid coronavirus crisis
Without offering evidence, President Trump doubled down Monday on his baseless suggestion that New York City healthcare workers may be stealing or hoarding face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, Trump returned to the premise that something nefarious is taking place at city hospitals after a reporter asked him to substantiate his Sunday claim that masks may be “going out the backdoor.”
In early March, as NYC Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo scrambled to get ahead of the global pandemic, it was business-as-usual in break rooms at fire stations, subway facilities, bus depots and police precincts across the five boroughs
Thousands of cops, firefighters, transit workers and emergency medical technicians walked in-and-out of break rooms without wearing masks, unwittingly transmitting the disease to an untold number of colleagues.
Johnson & Johnson hopes to start testing coronavirus vaccine in September
Pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson is planning to begin clinical trials of its coronavirus vaccine with the aim of distributing the vaccine in early 2021, the company announced Monday.
Johnson & Johnson said work on the vaccine began in January alongside the Biomedical Advance Research and Development Authority, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services.