Authored by Alan Macleod via MintPressNews.com, The job is being presented as a voluntary service. But in reality, prisoners have little choice… One month ago, MintPress News reported that, in the case of a particularly bad COVID-19 (coronavirus) epidemic in New York City, authorities had drawn up contingency plans to dump the bodies in mass graves on Hart Island, a small island just off the Bronx in the Long […]
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New York City is transforming into Wuhan, China, a sight that we showed readers on Thursday morning of body bags piled up at one Manhattan area hospital. Now there are reports of crematories in the city, extending hours, and burning bodies into the night, with the expectation that corpses could be sent to upstate cemeteries as capacity has been reached. We noted last week that morgues in the city were […]
The USNS Comfort, a 1,000-bed hospital ship, arrived in New York Harbor to support the national, state and local response to the coronavirus (COVID-19). While in New York, the ship will serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients currently admitted to shore-based hospitals, and will provide a full spectrum of medical care to include general surgeries, critical care and ward care for adults. This will allow […]
US 21:08 GMT 02.04.2020(updated 21:18 GMT 02.04.2020) Get short URL On Saturday, Cuomo said that he had not spoken with US President Donald Trump about the possibility of a quarantine amid the rapid spread of the coronavirus. On Thursday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that New York state’s stockpiles of ventilators will run out in less than a week. “At the current burn rate, we […]
The U.S. Navy has announced that the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) treated its first patients Apr. 1 in support of the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts. Local health officials, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), have established patient transfer protocols, with careful consideration to the safety and security of patients and medical care providers aboard USNS Comfort. Both civilian […]
After weeks of finding new ways to embarrass himself in the coronavirus news cycle – most recently taking a stab at doctors and saying they were too “scared” to help coronavirus patients – Elon Musk has opened up a new chapter in both virtue signalling and public humiliation as it relates to the ongoing global pandemic. As a reminder, we have been reluctantly covering Musk’s “bizarre” […]
The death toll from the Covid-19 infection in New York increased by 209 on Saturday, while the number of people infected with the virus rose to 52,318. The state’s presidential primary was also pushed back until June. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in a press conference on Saturday that a total of 728 people in New York have now died due to the illness. The number of […]
President Donald Trump floated the possibility of “quarantining” New York and “parts of” New Jersey and Connecticut as early as later in the day Saturday. Trump spoke to reporters on his way to Marine One Saturday as he departed The White House en route to Norfolk, Virginia, and blurted out some fairly big potential news, if true. Reporter: Should anyone who lives in a state that […]
President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he may implement a short-term enforced quarantine on “hotspots” of the novel coronavirus, including New York state, New Jersey, and some parts of Connecticut—though it’s not clear he has the power to do so. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo quickly hit back Saturday, saying “I don’t know what that means,” and asserting that the president had not discussed the […]
Karen Ducey/Getty Images According to a New York Times report, hospitals in New York are calling for blood plasma donations from those who have recovered from Covid-19 in order to test if the antibodies can be used as a potential treatment for the virus. The blood from survivors of the coronavirus can have high levels of antibodies, which could potentially attack the virus. This method has […]
EOS creator Block.one has acquired the team behind once-prominent block producer EOS New York, which has now entirely ceased operations. Block.one, which raised more than $4 billion in a yearlong initial coin offering (ICO) in 2018, said Wednesday it had hired EOS New York founders Rick Schlesinger and Kevin Rose, as well as their team. Block.one says the former EOS New York staffers will work on community […]
Disturbing new CNN and New York Times reports on the coronavirus situation in New York City have focused on the ominous signs that the health care system will soon be overwhelmed by the demands of the pandemic. The Times and CNN’s Brynn Gingras both delivered reports on Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, which has transferred non-coronavirus patients to other facilities in order to become one of the […]
President Trump’s hurried demands to get the nation “back to work” before Easter probably couldn’t come at a worse time. Across the US, but mainly in a handful of ‘hot spots’, most notably New York City and the surrounding area, the number of confirmed cases and deaths attributed to COVID-19 is climbing at an alarming rate. According to John Hopkins data, Wednesday was the deadliest day […]
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 […]
As New York continues to deal with a daily rise in coronavirus cases, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan to fight social density issues by closing streets and banning contact sports. Cuomo announced New York City will soon be “piloting” a program that will see the closure of some streets to cars. The streets would then be open to pedestrian traffic. The governor said the program […]
With New York City quickly becoming a new Covid-19 hotspot, the White House coronavirus task force is urging all New Yorkers who may have left the city for elsewhere to self-quarantine as they might have been exposed. “To everyone who has left New York City over the last few days, because of the number of cases, you may have been exposed before you left,” Dr. Deborah […]
Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, two of the top members on the White House coronavirus task force, directly addressed people leaving New York as cases of coronavirus rise in the state. Thousands of New Yorkers have tested positive and New York City has been hit particularly hard. Dr. Birx said, “To everyone who has left New York over the last few days, because of the rate […]
Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, two of the top members on the White House coronavirus task force, directly addressed people leaving New York as cases of coronavirus rise in the state. Thousands of New Yorkers have tested positive and New York City has been hit particularly hard. Dr. Birx said, “To everyone who has left New York over the last few days, because of the rate […]
Approximately 19% of those who contract coronavirus become seriously ill, according to a large Chinese study, while just under 14% fall into the ‘severe’ category, and 5% become critical – typically requiring a ventilator to breathe while suffering from multiple organ dysfunction. And while the overall fatality rate is a matter of serious debate as many suspect vast underreporting of cases, for those who fall into […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed that his state is home to more than half of the coronavirus cases in the U.S. during a press conference on Monday. “The numbers today, total tested, up to 78 thousand, tested overnight over a 24-hour period, 16 thousand, as of yesterday about 25% of all the testing nationwide is being produced right here,” Cuomo told reporters, clarifying that the jump […]
The number of people infected with the Covid-19 illness in New York has dramatically surged with 4,800 new cases recorded on Sunday. A total of 15,168 people in the state are carrying the disease and 114 have died. State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the spike on Sunday as the Mayor of New York city Bill de Blasio described the outbreak as the biggest domestic crisis since […]
President Donald Trump declared New York State a major disaster area Friday as coronavirus cases skyrocket. Donald Trump confirmed that last night he approved a major disaster declaration for New York. He said he worked closely with Governor Andrew Cuomo. He called it an “unprecedented” federal response. Mark Esper, the US defense secretary, said earlier this week that authorities were “considering activating national guard and reserve […]
New York State has reported its 10,000th person with the Covid-19 coronavirus, and now accounts for more than half of all the US’ cases. Meanwhile, the federal government has declared a ‘Major Disaster” in the Empire State. A total of 10,365 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in New York State between Friday and Saturday, up 3,254 on the previous day, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on […]
As the number of coronavirus cases continues to soar across the United States, state officials are racing to curtail the pandemic by taking extraordinary measures—including forcing millions of Americans to remain in their homes in the name of social distancing. Over the last week, restaurants, bars, and schools across the United States were shuttered, but several states have ordered lockdowns for their residents—similar to those in […]