Additional reporting by With Katie Honan The latest COVID-19 surge has delivered another blow to the MTA workforce, with a growing number of positive tests among transit employees threatening to chip away at subway and bus service. According to internal MTA data obtained by THE CITY, 169 subway workers reported testing positive for COVID over […]
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‘No Acceptable Reason’ for State-Run Nursing Home to Store PPE Outdoors: City Hospitals Czar
Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city’s hospitals boss slammed a state-run veterans nursing home in Queens for allowing hundreds of boxes of PPE to get damaged from rot and vermin by storing the gear outdoors for months. De Blasio spoke out after a “really disturbing” report in THE CITY on Tuesday detailing how officials […]
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Hospitals Nearing ICU Bed Limits as COVID-19 Surges in NYC
Additional reporting by Additonal Reporting By Rachel Holliday Smith Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for our daily morning newsletter. A key, ever-fluctuating variable in the grim daily calculus facing a city racing against time to treat a rising tide of COVID-19 patients is the number of intensive care unit […]
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City Shuttles Homeless and Other Virus Patients to Hotels
Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for our daily morning newsletter. The city is sending homeless shelter residents and public hospital patients with coronavirus to hotels — but won’t say where. And officials aren’t providing hotel staff or the city employees monitoring the infected guests with masks or any other […]
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Queens Public Hospital Thrust into ‘Center of Crisis’ as Coronavirus Deaths Mount
Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for our daily morning newsletter. The city’s public Elmhurst Hospital in Queens has been overrun with seriously ill coronavirus patients — including 13 who died in a 24-hour span, officials said Wednesday. A spokesperson for the city public hospital systems said Elmhurst is “at […]