Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during visit at food pantry by The Campaign Against Hunger amid COVID-19 pandemic in Brooklyn: New York, NY – April 14, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Julia Marsh, NY Post City leaders slammed Mayor Bill de Blasio Wednesday for his willingness to sacrifice the jobs of city cops, doctors and teachers before cutting […]
The coronavirus has taken a steep toll on the often-invisible army of employees who keep New York hospitals running.
Rosalyn Washington’s husband, Gary, 56, died from Covid-19 the day before their wedding anniversary. (Credit: Sara Naomi Lewkowicz for The New York Times) By Nicole Hong, NY Times They did not treat patients, but Wayne Edwards, Derik Braswell and Priscilla Carrow held some of the most vital jobs at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens. As […]
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor, The Baltimore Times With the coronavirus death toll passing 50,000 during the last week in April, black leaders in the U.S. have taken to warning their communities of the danger of opening the country back up too soon. The coronavirus has devastated the black community in Detroit and […]
By HeadCovers Coronavirus came like a global earthquake, and no one knows when the world will stop quaking. The seismic wave of this pandemic has shaken up our lives in too many ways to count. COVID-19, the most recent strain of coronavirus we’re contending with, has caused numerous illnesses, and unfortunately deaths, worldwide. We are […]
SILVER SPRING, MD – Honoring our nation’s nurse heroes is more profoundly significant than the American Nurses Association (ANA) anticipated when we extended the traditional National Nurses Week to a month of recognition in May. The COVID-19 pandemic quickly shifted the focus from the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, but now more than ever we […]
By Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY If COVID-19 follows a pattern set by the 1918 Spanish flu, the pandemic is likely to last up to two years and return with a vengeance this fall and winter – a second wave worse than the first, according to a study issued from the University of Minnesota. “States, territories and tribal […]
By Marilyn Silverman Your doctor has wonderful news for you—you’re pregnant. Both you and your partner happily count the days until you will welcome a tiny baby girl or a tiny baby boy into your domestic abode. But that happy day might be darkened with sadness and tragedy if you are a minority woman due […]
One of every four Filipinos in the New York-New Jersey area is employed in the health care industry. With at least 30 worker deaths and many more family members lost to the coronavirus, a community at the epicenter of the pandemic has been left reeling.
Sheryl Pabatao’s parents, Alfredo and Susana, were health care workers in one of the most COVID-19-ravaged parts of New Jersey. They were married 44 years. (Credit: Rosem Morton, special to ProPublica) By Nina Martin and Bernice Yeung, ProPublica When Alfredo Pabatao told his family that he had helped move a suspected coronavirus patient through the hospital where he’d […]
Image Credit: Facebook: Daquan Owens There is an outcry over a video of an NYPD officer taking down a bystander who was watching officers make an arrest for an apparent social distancing violation this weekend. The incident was reported Saturday evening around 5:30 on 9th Street and Avenue D in the East Village. As a […]