Tag: Coronavirus pandemic

The LGBTQ+ community in New York is doing nothing to stop the ongoing and continuing efforts by the Government to portray the Monkey Pox outbreak as largely isolated amongst gay men. This puts everyone at-risk. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control/Fair Use

As Monkey Pox gets branded as an outbreak amongst gay men, echos of a past New York City mayor, who was reluctant to confront sexuality

Are New York officials downplaying the Monkey Pox outbreak by focusing on gay men ? There are echos of the early years of HIV/AIDS.

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Mayor Eric Adams traveled to Washington, D.C., where he met with the White House chief of staff, attended the Gridiron Dinner, and appeared on Meet The Press. After his return to New York, Mayor Adams has made numerous in-person appearances. News reports now indicate that the Gridiron Dinner was the suspected setting of a COVID-19 superspreader event. NYC Mayor's Office (Twitter/Fair Use)

After Mayor Eric Adams attended the Gridiron Dinner, reports described the gathering as a COVID-19 superspreader event

Last Saturday, Mayor Eric Adams attended the Gridiron Dinner in Washington. Many attendees have since tested positive for COVID-19. What does this mean for his relaxation of pandemic precautions ?

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The City of New York has refused to make public the complete data about its wastewater surveillance programme. As a result, the public is unable to prepare for the detection of viral outbreaks, including new variants of the Coronavirus. The limited data released to Progress New York is the subject of this report. Data Analysis by @CestVraiApp.

New York City promises wastewater surveillance data to academic researchers, depriving the public of Coronavirus pandemic infection signals

New York City pledges its Coronavirus wastewater variant surveillance data to academics. Is that why the Government won’t publicly release the data ?

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Press reports indicate that New York City "missed" the emergence of the Omicron variant. However, newly released wastewater surveillance records indicate that New York City first detected an "Omicron overlap" from samples dated 15 November 2021. NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection/Public Domain

Newly released New York City wastewater SARS-CoV-2 sequencing records confirmed early, never before admitted detection of the Omicron variant

Newly released surveillance records indicate that New York City first detected an “Omicron overlap” from wastewater samples dated 15 November 2021, and samples from the Newtown Creek wastewater treatment plant showed Omicron was responsible for nearly 9 per cent. of viral abundance one week later.

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Dr. Rochelle Walensky is the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her health ministry is conducting the contact tracing for the now-infamous outbreak of the Omicron variant at an anime convention in New York. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (YouTube/Fair Use)

CDC mum, as de Blasio and Pandemic Response Lab still can’t explain missing amine convention outbreak of Omicron variant

The CDC is mum about conducting contact tracing for the anime convention in New York City, where many were infected with the Omicron variant.

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Jonathan Brennan-Badal is CEO of Opentrons, the parent company of the Pandemic Response Lab. The valuation of Opentrons has increased 20-fold from $90 million to $1.8 billion since winning Government COVID-19 testing contracts from the City of New York. It also sequences tests for Coronavirus variants. Its record on sequencing has raised a lot of questions. NYC Mayor's Office (YouTube/Fair Use)

The Pandemic Response Lab, Mayor de Blasio’s ‘gold standard’ of testing, misses Omicron variant, its latest misfire after NYC was late to report the Delta and AY.3 variants

New York City’s Pandemic Response Lab was supposed to be the “gold standard” for COVID-19 testing. Yet, the world learned of New York City’s first Omicron patient from public health officials in Minnesota.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio (WFP-New York City) has been compiling intelligence reports about misinformation, misunderstandings, and conspiracy theories about the Coronavirus pandemic and the vaccines. NYC Mayor's Office (YouTube/Fair Use)

de Blasio City Hall compiled intelligence reports from online and social media posts about the pandemic and vaccines : report

Mayor Bill de Blasio (WFP-New York City) has reportedly been compiling intelligence reports about misinformation, misunderstandings, and conspiracy theories about the Coronavirus pandemic and the vaccines.

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On 31 August, Gov. Kathleen Hochul called a special Legislative Session to address the eviction moratorium, a change to the open meetings law, and to further the legalisation of cannabis. The special session took place under "secrecy rules." Gov. Kathleen Hochul's YouTube Channel/Fair Use

With a promise of transparency as her “hallmark,” Gov. Hochul has far to go to ensure truly open Government in New York

Though Gov. Kathleen Hochul has promised to improve Government transparency, she ignores problems at the Committee on Open Government.

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Gov. Kathleen Hochul delivered her first COVID-19 briefing. During her remarks, she disclosed that there would be no remote option provided to public school students, except for children, who are immuno-compromised. @GovKathyHochul/Twitter (Fair Use)

New York Government élites created a remote option for COVID-19 protection for themselves that they denied to public school students

New York Governments officials have legislated a remote option as a COVID-19 protection for élites that they denied to public school students.

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After the de Blasio administration said that COVID-19 testing should not be focused on vaccinated individuals, the de Blasio administration is now promoting testing data about vaccinated individuals that includes fewer data about vaccinated individuals. NYC Mayor's Office (YouTube/Fair Use)

New York City is not tracking Delta variant substrains, like AY.3, that may threaten a confinement in Israel

The weekly variant sequencing studies published by New York City health ministry do not track the sublineages of the Delta plus variants, despite their concern.

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