Tag: Delta variant

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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The Government can't engage in a strictly open-business agenda during the Coronavirus pandemic without acting in lockstep with all Government Agencies. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is amongst them. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Public Domain)

After New York City missed the Omicron outbreak, the Government’s lockstep acts to deny the public release of pandemic data become clear

The Government is making it difficult to collect, report, and disclose pandemic data as the Omicron variant spreads without control.

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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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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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New York City Government lacked data collection about important resources, like hospital beds and PPE, that could have made a huge difference in the early response to the Coronavirus pandemic, an audit has found. New York City Comptroller's Office (Fair Use)

More changes to NYC pandemic data, as de Blasio comes under fire in pandemic response audit, including over failures in data collection, management, and dissemination

The de Blasio administration continues to change its data collection or reporting, as it faces new accusations that New York City Government lacked enough data to make important decisions in the early response to the Coronavirus pandemic.

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In his rush to reöpen the economy, Mayor Bill de Blasio has risked telegraphing mixed messages to the public about the dangers of the Delta variant. NYC Mayor's Office (YouTube/Fair Use)

de Blasio a beach bum in face of growing concerns about Delta variant, as costly five-layer face coverings may explain delayed response to new CDC indoor mask guidance

A leaked CDC document has revealed that the Delta variant can spread through vaccinated individuals, raising new questons about Government pandemic data.

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The name "Karen" has become a pejorative for entitled individuals, who demand privileges, usually based on race, whilst at the same time claiming victimhood. Mayor Bill de Blasio (WFP-New York City) has rejected calls for universal mask mandates, seemingly because the requirements have been opposed by Wall Street. NYC Mayor's Office (YouTube/Fair Use)

CDC makes incremental move on indoor masks, as New York City remains stubborn after Savannah joins other cities with mask mandates

The CDC and other cities, like Savannah, to require at least more use of indoor masks, with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s New York trailing — again.

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President Joseph Biden (D), Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), and Mayor Bill de Blasio (WFP-New York City) have courted controversy over their reported handling of the Coronavirus pandemic. President Biden : Public Domain ; Gov. Cuomo by Pat Arnow (CC BY-SA 2.0) ; Mayor de Blasio by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Biden’s DOJ closes civil rights probe into COVID-19 nursing home deaths as Government data, leadership come under greater scrutiny over Coronavirus pandemic mismanagement concerns

Government data about COVID-19 has been slowed or reduced, and that which is released face questions about reliability in the face of the Delta outbreak.

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