Tag: Coronavirus

The family of U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss received early access to COVID-19 testing at a time when such tests were new and scarce, and the practise of providing that preferential testing access has reportedly become the subject of a Federal investigation. U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (YouTube/Fair Use)

UPDATED : U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss didn’t receive early, “special” access to scarce COVID-19 tests, unlike her daughter-in-law, Melissa DeRosa, who did : source

U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss won’t admit or deny that she received COVID-19 tests when they were extremely new and scarce, like her daughter-in-law, Melissa DeRosa.

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Overdue data released on Sunday by the de Blasio administration made the retroactive revelation that the B.1.617 variant, which was first detected in India, has been sequenced from COVID-19 samples in New York City as long back as the first week of April. NYC Mayor's Office (YouTube/Fair Use)

Following an unexplained delay, the de Blasio administration released Coronavirus sequencing data, showing the B.1.617 variant was first detected in New York City in April

The first time the Delta variant was reported in New York City was in a retroactive disclosure made by the de Blasio administration in an overdue study.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio has been reportedly focused on burnishing his public image to salvage his political legacy in the final year of his two terms at City Hall. NYC Mayor's Office (YouTube/Fair Use)

de Blasio mum in the face of the unexplained delay in weekly data update of Coronavirus variants/strains in New York City

Mayor Bill de Blasio refused to explain the lateness in the release of data about Coronavirus variants, including for B.1.617, the strain first reported in India.

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Personal risk sensibilities are surpassing concerns over public health as Mayor Bill de Blasio seeks to reopen the economy, despite threats from Coronavirus variants. NYC Mayor's Office (YouTube/Fair Use)

de Blasio is reopening New York City without Coronavirus mutation surveillance for B.1.617, the double-variant from India

With a focus on reopening the economy, the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is not tracking the noted Coronavirus double-variant of India in Genomic sequencing by City health officials.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo's COVID-19 vaccine czar Larry Schwartz faced accusations of extorting support for the embattled governor as a new report detailed an effort to intimidate one of Gov. Cuomo's accusers. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's YouTube Channel/Fair Use

Outside investigators probing Cuomo mum about allegations of extortion of support by Larry Schwartz, New York’s Coronavirus vaccine czar

Investigators probing Gov. Andrew Cuomo remained silent in the face of allegations that Larry Schwartz engaged in extortion of support for the governor and that the Governor’s office was engaged in intimidation of his reported accusers.

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U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA 12) was reëlected as House Speaker on 3 January 2021. Her speakership was the target of a pressure politics campaign launched by comedian Jimmy Dore in a bid to compel a floor vote for Medicare For All. The campaign revealed how self-described progressives placed their loyalty to Speaker Pelosi before their commitment to a single-payer, universal healthcare system, even during a deadly pandemic. C-Span (Screen Shot) (Fair Use)

AOC, DSA try to move beyond unexpected social media fracas that challenged their progressive credentials, tested their loyalty to Pelosi over Medicare For All

Nancy Pelosi was reëlected as House Speaker, despite a social media campaign launched by Jimmy Dore against AOC and the Squad to fight for Medicare For All. Now, the AOC and the DSA are trying to pretend that they weren’t unmasked as unprincipled.

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Shopkeepers in Jackson Heights, Queens, prepared on 5 June 2020 for potential riots by boarding-up small businesses operating alongst 37th Ave. in Queens. Despite irrational fears, looters have a right to assemble. Progress New York/File Photograph

EDITORIAL : Looters have a right to assemble, too

The NYPD appear to target activists by imposing “burdens” based on ideology, for example on looters. But looters have a right to assemble, since First Amendment rights are not qualified by ideology.

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Governments have divested from public housing in a bid to unlock the value of real estate for private landlords. To do this, public housing authorities have willingly demolished public housing. The same fate that befell Cabrini-Green in Chicago now threatens some NYCHA public housing apartment buildings, thanks to Mayor Bill de Blasio (WFP-New York City). Source : Joe M500 (CC BY 2.0). Original photograph was cropped for this photo illustration.

de Blasio plans to convert another 1,718 public housing apartments in Manhattan under RAD, even after new signaling and the unknown threat of demolition looms over NYCHA

NYCHA CEO Greg Russ has signaled a new tune on the RAD conversion of public housing, contradicting RAD conversions and demolition seemingly yet to take place.

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Bodies of people, who have died from the Coronavirus pandemic, have been stored in large refrigerator trucks outside of medical facilities. One such truck is parked on West 12th Street, near 7th Ave. South, in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan. Staff Photograph

Editorial : St. Vincent’s Hospital closing and the collapse of public health before Coronavirus

What role did hospital closings, like St. Vincent’s in Manhattan, have on the collapse of public health in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic ?

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