As New York confronts a deadly pandemic, City Limits brings you coverage about how the disease—and the response—will affect the most vulnerable.
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New York has closed dozens of hospitals in the last few decades, the result of larger healthcare trends, policy shifts and cost-cutting efforts. But that downsizing has been “called into question” by the coronavirus pandemic, experts say.
‘We are high risk and underserved people ourselves. We don’t want to spread the virus and infect our clients,’ one home attendant told World Journal. ‘But if we stop working, who would help them?’
‘Arnie candidly wrote that he was convicted of a double homicide in Brooklyn. ‘I make no bones about it, I was a bad guy.’ He’ll first be eligible for parole when, should he live that long, he’d be 81.’
The meal hubs have drawn praise, but there are still gaps. And other measures are being held up by the slow pace of the approval process in Washington.
‘We know that some of them have a hard time in isolation. They are scared, especially hearing all around that they are the major risk group,’ the manager of the Northside Senior Center in Williamsburg told Nowy Dziennik.
People deemed unable to make their own health or financial decisions because of dementia, serious medical problems or other reasons are especially vulnerable.
‘Please urge your elected officials to pass legislation granting public workers who give their lives in dealing with this crisis ‘Line-of-Duty’ death benefits.’
The mayor and governor have taken different approaches to testing, but now they agree we need more of it. But who will get it? Where? And to what end?
‘If the undocumented immigrants are not safe, nobody is going to be safe in New York,’ says Lorena Kourousias, director of Mixteca Organization, a nonprofit in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Los trabajadores indocumentados estan inelegibles para ayuda del gobierno federal—incluso cuando sus hijos nacieron en los Estados Unidos
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