NYPD custodian Dennis Dickson was assigned the first floor of headquarters, which includes the memorial wall that lists the names of the officers who died in the line of duty. With the arrival of the pandemic, Dickson showed his own kind of courage simply by continuing to come to work. His bravery was in that sense akin to that of transit workers and delivery people and […]
Michael Daly
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As New York became the pandemic epicenter, FDNY ambulances responded to ever more suspect COVID-19 calls, as unhesitatingly as when the firefighters strode into the burning towers on 9/11. “A lot of people are running away from this and we’re running towards it,” FDNY EMS paramedic Sherry Singleton told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. In a single shift last week, 33-year-old Singleton responded to four such […]
New York state’s governor and the city’s mayor had officially canceled the St. Patrick’s Day Parade because of the coronavirus, but both quietly gave their blessing for a group of less than 50 marchers so as not to interrupt a 258-year tradition. So, just after dawn on a rainy March 17, two dozen soldiers, parade officials and others assembled in Manhattan at the armory of the […]
If we go the way of Italy, a shortage of ventilators will force our doctors to choose who lives and who dies. The initial triage decisions will be searing, but relatively simple: those most in need of a ventilator and who have the best chances of surviving. But there could come moments when doctors will be forced to choose from among patients who meet the same […]
The influential trader once called the Bounty Hunter of Wall Street may have been acting in the public interest as well as his own when he tweeted a warning about one of the leading biotech companies developing a novel coronavirus vaccine. Or Andrew Left may have simply been seeking to cash in amidst a global pandemic, whatever impact his actions might have on Inovio Pharmaceuticals and […]
Call it Coronacare for All, a simple guarantee that anyone who develops symptoms of COVID-19 can be tested and quarantined, if needed, at no cost. The idea is that we are all on a cruise ship called Earth and our well-being depends on immediately identifying and isolating those who are infected. We are already part way there, thanks to provisions of Obamacare, which Attorney General William […]
President Trump was getting inaugurated later that week, so he was understandably absent when Bill Gates issued a prescient warning at the 2017 World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland. “Ebola and Zika showed that the world is tragically unprepared to detect local outbreaks and respond quickly enough to prevent them from becoming global pandemics,” Gates said. “Without investments in research and development, we will remain unequipped […]
The first clinical trial of a possible treatment for novel coronavirus commenced on Friday, having overcome the various bureaucratic hurdles in just days. “Things that can take years,” Dr. Andre Kalil, who is overseeing the trial at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, told The Daily Beast. The 54-year-old infectious disease expert marveled, “The trial is up and running.” The record-breaking speed is part of a […]
To be fair to President Trump, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik did not do anything he himself has not long been accused of doing as a matter of routine. All Kerik did was lie, evade taxes, consort with organized-crime types, use public office to seek financial reward, make false statements to banks, gin up charitable contributions, and obstruct justice. Why shouldn’t Trump pardon […]
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos Getty/AP A Valentine’s Day card on the blood-spattered floor, along with school papers and shell casings. Red and white carnations poking out from an abandoned backpack. Books and binders left open on desks, others scattered in the scramble to escape. Read more at The Daily Beast. Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here Source