City Hall
Opinion: Mayor Adams, Please Ask NYC to Mask Up
Kate Cunningham |
“I am deeply concerned that New York City is taking the foot off the brakes at the exact wrong moment.”
Health and Environment
Federal COVID Test Delivery Program Out of Reach to Some NYC Shelter Residents
David Brand |
U.S. residents can sign up to receive four free COVID tests delivered to their home address. But the program limits one order per household, proving to be a problem for people staying in group homeless shelters or hotels.
Government
Should NYC Have a Dedicated ‘COVID Recovery’ Office?
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards is calling for the city to streamline its pandemic response into one new office that would report to the mayor, and address things like long testing lines and equitable distribution of vaccine sites.
COVID-19
Checking in on Lines at NYC’s COVID Test Sites as Infection Numbers Rise
City Limits |
It’s not clear yet if the December holidays will draw same test-line crowds that Thanksgiving did: An average of 48,380 New Yorkers got molecular coronavirus tests on Dec. 14, the most recent date for which city data is available, well below the high of 58,243 people who were tested on Nov. 24.
COVID-19 Testing
La estrategia de contención en la serie de casos de COVID-19 en Nueva York
Nicole Javorsky |
Ha pasado casi un mes desde que Nueva York comenzó su ‘Iniciativa de Acción de Grupo’ (“Cluster Action Initiative) para contener la propagación del coronavirus instituyendo restricciones en vecindarios específicos. ¿Mantendrá a raya una segunda ola?.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Open, Hybrid or Fully Remote, NYC Schools Need Aid, Not Austerity
Mohammad Ahmad |
‘Without increased funding to make up for structural losses at schools, the institutionally racist chasm of inequity in education will continue to grow wider as students least served by city and state governments are left to suffer from resource deficits.’
Coronavirus
With Some Results Still Backlogged, Should NYC Rethink its Testing-for-All COVID Strategy?
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Public health experts have been calling on the federal government to organize a nationwide testing strategy: At the moment, states and local jurisdictions “are kind of on their own in terms of who to test,” resulting in uneven testing approaches across the country.
