Inmate Freed As Coronavirus Spreads At New York’s Rikers Island
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Some officials are releasing inmates as the coronavirus gains a foothold inside correctional facilities across the country.
Hospital Cleaner: ‘This Is My Chance To Thank New York’
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Cleaners who work in public buildings are also risking their lives to keep others safe in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Food and Farms
How Safe Is Take-Out In A COVID-19 World?
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“So where everything would be wiped down, now it’s probably just ten times as much”
Improvisation And Retraining May Be Key To Saving Patients In New York’s ICUs
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Pulmonologists in New York hospitals are now supervising doctors from other specialties as they try to keep ICUs staffed, and are deploying equipment in new ways. But COVID-19 is a demoralizing foe.
Government
Pay Frozen For New York State Workers
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With New York facing a $10 to $15 billion dollar deficit, and a steep drop in revenue with almost all businesses closed, the governor says he has few choices.
‘We’ll Get Through This’: Living In New York During The Coronavirus Pandemic
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Politicians give speeches and scary headlines fill the news, but somehow life pushes on for New Yorkers.
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THURSDAY: Governor Cuomo’s Daily Coronavirus Briefing
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“God bless them for having such diligence for their civic duty that they would go stand on a line to vote, but people shouldn’t have to make that choice.”
Food and Farms
Wegmans Provides Face Masks To Employees
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Wegmans will be supplying face masks to its employees in line with federal guidelines designed to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
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Can You Be Cited Just For Going On A Drive?
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Pennsylvania DA says he’s withdrawing citation against woman who allegedly violated stay-at-home order
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‘Outlaw’ PA Businesses Make Coronavirus Masks Without State Approval
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“For making protective masks and hospital gowns … you can’t make that out of wishful thinking, you have to have actual fabric.”