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As the global health crisis rages on, coronavirus scams have proliferated, with the latest involving ventilators. New York state paid $69.1 million to a man to produce ventilators, even though he had no medical supply expertise—and the ventilators ultimately never arrived, BuzzFeed News reports. On March 27, as the COVID-19 pandemic was underway, Donald Trump […]
A high number of New Yorkers have contacted city health authorities for ingesting bleach or household cleaners after following President Trump’s controversial claim that injecting such products would cure coronavirus. According to the New York Daily News, the Poison Control Center managed a total of 30 cases of possible exposure to disinfectant between 9 p.m. […]
Two cats in New York—as in, actual animals, not slang for people from the Big Apple—have tested positive for COVID-19, making them the first known cases of coronavirus in pets in the United States, CNN reports. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a joint statement that both cats, which […]
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has addressed the unsettling aerial shots of the Hart Island potter’s field—a century-old burial site for unclaimed or unidentified people. De Blasio confirmed there’s been a surge in Hart Island burials in wake of the coronavirus pandemic, but refuted the reports about mass graves. “There will be no mass burials on […]
A new study shows that New York’s COVID-19 outbreak largely originated in Europe. The research indicates that the virus started circulating in New York by mid-February, prior to the state’s first confirmed case on March 1—and that it was brought to the area by travelers who arrived from Europe, not Asia. “The majority is clearly European,” […]
A Muslim woman is suing the City of Yonkers after local police allegedly forced her to remove her hijab. According to the civil lawsuit obtained by the Huffington Post, 42-year-old Ihsan Malkawi has accused the police department of violating her religious rights after she was taken into custody last year. The complaint states Malkawi and her husband were […]
A New York man reportedly hid his coronavirus symptoms so that he could be allowed to visit his wife in the maternity ward of a hospital. Per the local CBS affiliate, a man in Rochester, New York admitted that he concealed symptoms of COVID-19 from Strong Memorial Hospital staffers once his wife started displaying symptoms after giving […]
New York City has become one of the world’s largest COVID-19 hot spots, with more than 32,000 confirmed cases and 678 virus-related deaths as of Sunday. Elected officials have tried to curb the spread of the disease within the state, implementing shelter-in-place orders that prohibit public gatherings of 50 or more people. But it seems some New […]
Donald Trump has doubled down on his claim that hospitals are exaggerating the need for medical supplies—specifically face masks. “How do you go from 10 to 20 to 30,000, to 300,000 — even though this is different,” he told reporters Sunday, during a coronavirus press briefing. “Something is going on. And you ought to look into it as […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s appeal to the federal government to produce 30,000 ventilators for New York has been heard. An infectious disease specialist who’s part of the White House coronavirus task force has said that the “bottom line” is that Cuomo needs ventilators to treat the city that has been hit the hardest by COVID-19. “One […]
