Tag: COVID-19

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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In the two days following the release of Government data by the NYC Health Agency showing COVID-19 positivity test results approaching 15 per cent., the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio stopped releasing the data. NYC Health (Fair Use)

de Blasio administration mum as COVID-19 test data disappeared after positivity began to approach 15 per cent. in some NYC zip codes

The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio (WFP-New York City) refuses to address the disappearance of COVID-19 test data from the Government’s Web site.

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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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Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, and Northwell Health hospital chain CEO Michael Dowling, center, possibly stood to profit financially from the suppression of COVID-19 data about nursing home deaths and from business with New York State, respectively, according to reports. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's YouTube Channel/Fair Use

Cuomo monetised the control of data that underreported COVID-19 nursing home deaths, in addition to attempting to thwart a Justice Department investigation : reports

Gov. Andrew Cuomo reportedly monetised the suppression of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes in the form of a book deal and campaign donations, according to reports.

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The administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) has been accused of obstructing the release of information about COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes in order to avoid a Federal investigation. The cover-up is now the reported preliminary inquiry by the office of Acting U.S. Attorney Seth DuCharme. Fair Use Screenshot of Gov. Cuomo (YouTube) ; Public Domain portrait of Acting U.S. Attorney DuCharme (U.S. Dept. Of Justice)

U.S. Attorney’s Office, which argued that the Government could comply with records requests at their discretion, to probe Cuomo over COVID-19 nursing home deaths cover-up

The Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s Office, charged with handling the probe into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of COVID-19 nursing homes deaths, has previously defended the Government’s violations of open records requests.

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The office of U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss, left, oversees complex civil and criminal public corruption cases across New York State. There's been no public comment by Federal prosecutors in her office about the admission by her daughter-in-law, Melissa DeRosa, center, of a cover-up of COVID-19 deaths in New York State nursing homes. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (right) has refused to apologise for the spike in deaths in nursing homes. Source (L-R) : U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (Fair Use) ; Governor's Office/YouTube (Fair Use) ; Governor's Office (Fair Use)

U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss doesn’t care her daughter-in-law, Melissa DeRosa, is caught up in Cuomo’s cover-up of COVID-19 nursing home deaths

U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss is mum following revelations that her daughter-in-law, Melissa DeRosa, admitted to participating in a conspiracy to cover-up COVID-19 deaths in New York State nursing homes.

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An unknown number of individuals, who died during the Coronavirus pandemic, were buried in mass graves in New York City's potter's field, located on Hart Island. Source : Melinda Hunt, preview of Webm video that was cropped from the original (CC BY 3.0)

AOC didn’t fight for Medicare For All during a pandemic, but she’ll help pay for your funeral if you died from COVID-19

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced the inclusion of funeral cost reimbursements but not universal healthcare in the latest Federal COVID-19 disaster aid bill.

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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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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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