The coronavirus appears to have been circulating at low levels in the Big Apple since early February, about a month before the first case was confirmed in the city, new research reveals. A study published this week, based on more than 5,000 plasma samples collected from patients at Mount Sinai …
Read More »Coronavirus tests Aaron Boone’s Yankees management style
If his former Reds teammate Sean Casey hadn’t hit him with the nickname, Aaron Boone could pass for “The Mayor.” Seeing Boone walk through the Yankees clubhouse is witnessing an effortless ballet of little conversation, eye contact, handshakes, and shoulder pads, whether it’s with his players, their coaches, their superiors, …
Read More »MTA installs EPP vending machines in subway stations
The MTA on Tuesday began installing vending machines filled with personal protective equipment in subway stations, where strangers can buy face masks and hand sanitizer, the agency announced. The dozen PPE machines also offer sanitizing gloves and wipes and have been deployed at 10 stops, primarily in Manhattan, according to …
Read More »Choose your job or your children
Can Gov. Andrew Cuomo take a break from his televised mock victory lap, put his head together with Mayor Bill de Blasio, and figure out how to open schools statewide full-time in September? We hear a lot about “privilege” and how we have to “verify” ours. But there is no …
Read More »A third of New York children with Kawasaki-like illness had other medical problems
According to a study published Monday, more than a third of New York children who contracted a disease similar to Kawasaki disease related to the coronavirus were obese or had other underlying medical conditions. The analysis of the 99 patients with Multiple Symptomatic Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, or MIS-C, was …
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