How Can We Convey To You...?
The flood of facts and spin from elected officials' daily coronavirus briefings presents just one challenge to journalists working the all-encompassing coronavirus beat. Overstretched reporters must...
View ArticleNew York State Will Allow Birthing Partners In Delivery Rooms Despite...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration says he's issuing an executive order to require all hospitals in the state to allow women in labor to have an essential support person accompany them into the...
View ArticleNYC Public School Students React to Shortened Spring Break Due to Coronavirus
New York City public schools won’t be observing spring break as scheduled this year. The break was originally supposed to start on April 9th and continue through the 17th. But now that schools are in...
View ArticleCuomo: Antibodies Testing Begins This Week
New York State will roll out thousands of blood tests this week to determine who has antibodies for Covid-19. The point of the testing is to find out what percentage of the population has had the...
View ArticleUSNS Comfort To Sail Into The Sunset
The USNS Comfort arrived with great fanfare a month ago, as New York was bracing for as many as 140,000 extremely sick people needing hospital beds. Many fewer materialized — only about 19,000 at the...
View ArticleEarly Antibody Tests Suggest Coronavirus Infected One In Five NYC Residents
All the virus-testing to date has been of people who are already sick. This was a "representative sample" of 3,000 New Yorkers to show who had antibodies — and therefore had been sick, at least as of...
View ArticleCommunication Breakdown
In this episode, a tale of two cities. It turns out there’s a literal playbook for communications during an epidemic. Seattle followed it. New York didn’t. And, how incomplete information from leaders...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Cities
Opacity, we know, is antithetical to public health in a pandemic. But there are more ways to undermine public trust and cooperation than suppressing bad news. Because when news is bad — or simply...
View ArticleThe High-Tech, Post-COVID Life
Naomi Klein, senior correspondent for The Intercept, the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University, co-founder of The Leap, a climate justice...
View ArticleGovernor Cuomo Signs A Series Of Police Reform Bills Into Law
After nearly two weeks of protests against police brutality, state lawmakers have responded to some of the demands of demonstrators by passing a package police reform measures including a law that...
View ArticleElected Officials Urge Governor Cuomo To Intervene On Behalf Of Ballots With...
As the Board of Elections begins counting absentee ballots citywide Wednesday, advocates and lawmakers are asking Governor Cuomo to protect voters.
View ArticleNYC Leadership Amid Pandemic and Protest
Harry Siegel, FAQ NYC co-host, Daily News columnist and Daily Beast senior editor and Debralee Santos, editor of The Manhattan Times and The Bronx Free Press, talk about how Governor Cuomo and Mayor de...
View ArticleCuomo To Create "Joint Task Force" To Crack Down On Large Religious...
Governor Cuomo says the NYPD hasn't done enough to break up large "super-spreader" gatherings in hot spot areas—so he's putting city police under state authority.Though the details have yet to be...
View ArticleGovernor Maps Out New Restrictions in COVID Hotspots
In a move state officials described as a "last resort," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is ordering restrictions on non-essential businesses, large gatherings, and schools in areas that are experiencing...
View ArticleNYC's Orthodox Jewish Communities Protest COVID-Related Closures
Ginia Bellafante, "Big City" columnist for the New York Times, and Ari Feldman, staff writer at The Forward, talk about the COVID-19 hot spots in some strictly orthodox communities and assess the...
View ArticleExplaining the New COVID Closures in Brooklyn and Queens
The Governor's plan to partially shut down parts of Brooklyn and Queens amid several localized outbreaks has left residents of the boroughs with some confusion. Jake Dobkin, co-founder of Gothamist...
View ArticleNew York City Has Passed Two COVID-19 Thresholds. So Why Hasn't It Been Shut...
When does an "uptick" in new coronavirus cases become a “surge” or even a "wave"? New York City and New York State have seen a steady increase of people testing positive since the late summer. This...
View ArticleThe Pfizer Vaccine Isn't a Home Run Yet
Pfizer announced Monday that its coronavirus vaccine demonstrated more than 90% effectiveness and no serious bad reactions in trial results — an outcome that should enable the company to obtain an...
View ArticleIn Fighting The Pandemic, Policymakers Must Cite Their Sources
If the ultimate toll of the pandemic depends on trust in government, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry, we have a long way to go. In varying degrees of reason and paranoia, there’s a lot of...
View ArticleFor Cities, Does Density Mean Coronavirus Destiny?
Earlier this year, commentators and elected officials often repeated George McFly's mistake: confusing destiny with density. “Pandemics naturally thrive most in big cities,” Joel Kotkin wrote in March...
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