From his bed at Bellevue, James Carlton says that he has nightmares and that ‘everything hurts.’
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NYC Jail-Related COVID Fatalities at Least Double Official Three Who Died in Custody
THE CITY and Columbia Journalism School identified six men who died after contracting coronavirus while in Department of Correction facilities. In an eerie echo of New York nursing homes, the department did not count deaths following release.
Posted inBellevue Hospital, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Elmhurst Hospital, Health and Hospitals, Manhattan, N95 Masks, Queens, The Bronx
Public Hospital Pandemic Prep Playbook Called for Massive Mask Stockpile That Didn’t Materialize
Months before COVID-19 landed in New York, NYC Health + Hospitals mapped out a detailed strategy on how to handle an airborne virus of unknown origin. The 77-page document, titled “Frontline Hospital Planning Guide” and filed in June 2019, warned that an adequate supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) for staff in the 11 city-run […]
Posted inPolice Brutality
PHOTOS: Bellevue Workers Kneel for Nearly Nine Minutes in Tribute to George Floyd
Wearing their scrubs and protective masks, hundreds of Bellevue Hospital workers knelt in silence for eight minutes and 46 seconds in honor of George Floyd on Thursday afternoon. That time span is how long a white Minneapolis cop knelt on the 46-year-old black man’s neck on May 25, killing him — and sparking police-brutality protests […]
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De Blasio Vows to Break Up NYC Homeless Shelter Crowds
Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for THE CITY’s daily morning newsletter. Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed changes Friday after THE CITY revealed how homeless men ejected from the subways during overnight cleanups wound up packed together sleeping on shelter floors. Photos obtained by THE CITY showed some 20 men […]
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Homeless Sent from Subways to Social Distancing Nightmares
Additional reporting by Claudia Irizarry Aponte Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for THE CITY’s daily morning newsletter. It’s around 2 o’clock in the morning and the beige marble lobby of the 30th Street Men’s Shelter in Manhattan has filled up with more than 20 homeless men just expelled from […]
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NYC Shuttles Homeless Men from Subway to Packed Shelter
Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for THE CITY’s daily morning newsletter. The convoy arrived in the chilly Manhattan darkness around 1:30 a.m.: vehicles pulling up one after the other outside 30th Street Men’s Shelter, the city’s biggest refuge for homeless New Yorkers. The passengers who emerged at this temporary […]
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Nurses Face Scores More Deaths Due to Protective Gear Shortage, Union Suit Charges
Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for THE CITY’s daily morning newsletter. Nearly three out of four New York nurses have been exposed to coronavirus, with hundreds testing positive, scores hospitalized and at least six killed by COVID-19, the nurses union charged Monday. The New York State Nurses Association, in […]
Posted inCoronavirus
Millions of N95 Masks NYC Ordered Weeks Ago for Public Hospitals Still MIA
Additional reporting by Ben Fractenberg Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for our daily morning newsletter. Nearly 13 million virus-blocking N95 and similar face masks ordered in March for the city’s public hospitals and other emergency services have still not arrived as medical staff at Bellevue and other facilities plead […]
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Some Hospitals Defy Cuomo Panel Mask-on-Demand Order, Nurses Charge
Additional reporting by Ben Fractenberg Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for our daily morning newsletter. Nurses in New York City charge that some hospitals are flouting a directive by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 task force requiring new N95 face masks on-demand for medical workers. Meanwhile, public hospital nurses are […]