April 13, 2020 By Allie Griffin Mayor Bill de Blasio said new data shows New York City is on its way to reducing the spread of the coronavirus. The number of daily hospital admissions for suspected COVID-19 cases decreased from Friday, April 10 to Saturday, April 11. The number dipped from 463 to 383 people… Read more »
April 13, 2020 By Michael Dorgan The New York Department of Labor has upgraded its online and call center technology systems that will increase the agency’s capacity to process unemployment benefit applications. The new system, dubbed “Tech Surge,” was rolled out Friday — in partnership with Google Cloud, Deloitte, and Verizon — and will help… Read more »
April 11, 2020 By Michael Dorgan Governor Andrew Cuomo has warned New Yorkers to stay the course and to remain cautious as efforts to flatten the spread of COVID-19 appear to be paying off. The number of hospitalizations and intubations – those who are connected to ventilators – continues to drop, the governor said at… Read more »
April 11, 2020 By Michael Dorgan All public schools will remain closed for the remainder of the current academic school year and will reopen again in September, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this morning. The mayor said it was the right decision to keep them closed since it would help stop the spread of COVID-19… Read more »
April 9, 2020 By Christian Murray Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney will be introducing legislation to provide student loan relief for frontline health care workers. Maloney’s bill—dubbed the Student Debt Forgiveness for Frontline Health Care Workers Act—would relieve doctors, nurses and other healthcare professions of their graduate student loan debt if they are providing care for COVID-19… Read more »
April 8, 2020 By Allie Griffin The state’s shutdown that began last month to contain the spread of the coronavirus is working, Governor Andrew Cuomo said today — but still, more and more New Yorkers are dying each day. The dramatic measures that have brought the state to a near halt are “flattening the curve… Read more »
April 8, 2020 By Christian Murray Nearly one-quarter of Americans are unable pay their April housing bill, according to a new study released by the real estate firm Apartment List. The study, based on a survey of more than 4,100 people nationwide, revealed that 25 percent of renters say that they are unable to pay… Read more »
April 8, 2020 By Allie Griffin The coronavirus is disproportionately killing Hispanic and Black New Yorkers across the five boroughs, according to newly released data. Hispanic and Latino people account for 34 percent of all COVID-19 related deaths in New York City, while they make up about 29 percent of the city’s population, according to… Read more »
April 7, 2020 By Allie Griffin The Corona section of Queens is one of the many hot spots across the five boroughs where the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a hold, according to the latest neighborhood data released by the Department of Health. Three main epicenters have emerged — with one in the Borough Park section… Read more »
April 7, 2020 By Christian Murray Mayor Bill de Blasio said today that the city will soon release data that tracks the race and ethnicity of New Yorkers who have contracted COVID-19. De Blasio said that people of color and those who reside in lower-income communities are getting hit harder by the coronavirus than elsewhere…. Read more »