NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks before a walk through Flushing Meadows Corona Park to hand out free face masks to park goers. – NEW YORK, NY – MAY 16, 2020 (Shutterstock) NEW YORK— Mayor de Blasio announced a new emergency financial relief program for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence to provide funding for […]
A woman wearing a mask sells beauty products at a street stall in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. – New York, NY / United States – May 16th 2020 (Shutterstock) NEW YORK, NY – Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Lorelei Salas today warned New Yorkers of scams […]
NV Maintenance employees contractors for the MTA cleans subway car at 96th street station, last stop of Q line during COVID-19 pandemic – New York, NY: May 6, 2020 (Shutterstock) Joint Statement by Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Tony Utano, And Transport Workers Union of America International President John Samuelsen “The Coronavirus has ravaged […]
By Julia Marsh and Amanda Woods, NY Post A total of 110 children in the Big Apple have contracted the rare Kawasaki-like inflammatory disease potentially linked to the coronavirus — and the disease is hitting young minority boys the hardest. Among those infected with the mystery disease, formally known as a pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome, […]
New York City Transit Authority shutdown overnight train service to disinfect subway cars due to the coronavirus. – New York, NY – Bronx, New York/USA May 5, 2020 (Shutterstock) By TWU Local 100 Conductor Lizette Rodriguez created this beautiful video showcasing the heroism and determination of our members to keep New York Moving during the […]
By David Wallace-Wells, NY Mag Over the course of the spring, as American deaths grew first into the hundreds, then the thousands, then the tens of thousands, one after another early scientific observations about COVID-19 have been revised or discarded: As it turns out, the virus can be transmitted by asymptomatic people, masks do help, […]
Protestors gather at the demonstration for Ahmaud Arbery organized by the NAACP of Georgia at the Glynn County Court House. – Brunswick, GA USA May 8, 2020 (Shutterstock) By BBC ‘To know Ahmaud was to love Ahmaud’ says Wanda Cooper-Jones. Her son is Ahmaud Arbery, the African-American who was shot dead by a white father […]
By Leslie Neal-Boylan,The Conversation Nurses are heroes of the COVID-19 crisis. May 12 is International Nurses Day, which commemorates the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the first “professional nurse.” The World Health Organization also named this year the “Year of the Nurse” in honor of Nightingale’s 200th birthday. To nurses everywhere, this day and this year […]
NYC Health and Hospital officer walk-in COVID-19 testing in inner city neighborhoods. – New York City, New York/USA May 7, 2020 (Shutterstock) By BBC The coronavirus “may never go away”, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Speaking at a briefing on Wednesday, WHO emergencies director Dr Mike Ryan warned against trying to predict when […]
The US Supreme Court is considering a case that could put hundreds and thousands of people who were brought into the country illegally as children at risk of deportation. Some of those are healthcare workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
By Stephanie Hegarty, BBC At the beginning of April a long line of police cars snaked slowly around a hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with their blue lights flashing in the bright sun. It was a tribute, they said, to the healthcare workers risking their lives to treat patients with Covid-19. But for Jonathan Vargas […]