A Brooklyn courthouse was still packed as coronavirus spread. Judges, their staffs and lawyers are paying the price.

A Brooklyn courthouse was still packed as coronavirus spread. Judges, their staffs and lawyers are paying the price.

There was no social distancing as lawyers waited the session to begin March 12 before Judge Johnny Lee Baynes in Brooklyn Supreme Court. (Photo: NY Daily News) By Noah Goldberg, NY Daily News Dozens of lawyers, court officers and clerks crowded onto the wooden benches in Judge Johnny Lee Baynes’ courtroom on March 12 as […]

EMS members brace for COVID-19 peak, Bronx Zoo converts to staging area

EMS members brace for COVID-19 peak, Bronx Zoo converts to staging area

By News 12 The Bronx Medical experts say this could be the toughest week since the coronavirus crisis began, and medical technicians and paramedics are bracing for the impact.  More than 4,000 members of the city’s Emergency Medical Services are preparing for what’s to come as the peak of the coronavirus draws near.  Like hospital workers and […]

‘I’m very, very worried’: Laid-off workers struggle with no social safety net

‘I’m very, very worried’: Laid-off workers struggle with no social safety net

By Maeve Reston, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) – For more than a year on the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic presidential contenders spoke at nearly every event about the number of families in America who were living at the precipice, one paycheck away from losing everything — even as the economy was booming. Now […]

A tale of two agencies: NYC transit workers to receive nearly 250,000 N95 masks to protect against coronavirus; correction officers still fighting for PPE

A tale of two agencies: NYC transit workers to receive nearly 250,000 N95 masks to protect against coronavirus; correction officers still fighting for PPE

By Thomas Tracy and Larry McShane, NY Daily News As transit union workers cheered the arrival of 250,000 N95 masks Saturday, angry corrections workers remained at war with the city over access to the same protective gear. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority quickly began distributing the in-demand protective masks to safeguard transit workers from the coronavirus, […]

How do you become infected with the coronavirus?

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How do you become infected with the coronavirus?

The new coronavirus has traveled unseen paths from Wuhan, China, to virtually all corners of the globe. Evidence of its movements abound, from the proliferation of people wearing face masks to the sudden absence of toilet paper on store shelves. How did a virus that didn’t even exist just a few months ago manage to […]