In February, whispers of a deadly virus began to intensify. By March, the whispers had become a crescendo, the only thing anyone could hear. Coronavirus infiltrated the city and suddenly, within days, New York became the nation’s epicenter of the viral pandemic. Emergency tents popped up in Central Park, a Navy hospital ship docked at […]
Behind every statistic about deaths in New York City is a person who touched other lives in ways big and small.
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Forty-five days into New York City’s shelter-in-place protocol, Midtown West is like a ghost town.
As the pandemic continues, the foster care system tries to adapt
As the pandemic rolls on, universities, biotech companies and pharmaceutical giants around the world are racing to find a coronavirus vaccine. Taking a vaccine from concept to delivery is process that usually takes many years, sometimes over a decade, but scientists are hopeful they can develop and distribute a coronavirus vaccine in two years or […]
By Caroline Chen and TuAnh Dam New York City had its first COVID-19 case on March 1, and in less than two months, the number of confirmed cases has spiked to more than 160,000. And nearly 12,000 New Yorkers have died. Behind these numbers are sad stories of people struggling in an overwhelmed healthcare system. […]
Brooklyn teen Karina Popovich and more than 200 other 3D printing hobbyists at Makers for COVID-19 are helping healthcare workers on the frontlines to protect themselves.
For internal medicine doctors, the battle against Covid-19 is a long, taxing, and mysterious experience.
Anne Sansevero saw it coming. As the first cases of COVID-19 began surfacing in America, Sansevero, who has been a geriatric nurse practitioner for more than 30 years and runs a private practice serving seniors, foresaw that her elderly clients—one of the most vulnerable populations to the contagious virus—would particularly be at risk. “I knew […]
The New York State Nurses Association, the state’s nurses’ union, sued the New York State’s Department of Health and two medical centers Monday over working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The union filed three lawsuits—against New York’s Department of Health, Montefiore Medical Center, and Westchester Medical Center. A press release issued by the union states […]
Meet the people who are volunteering to be exposed to the Coronavirus to help develop a vaccine more rapidly
The government passed the largest stimulus bill in American history, but individual checks may come up short
