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Mark D. Levine
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Steep decline in vaccination in NYC. And still half of adults here have not received their first shot.The era of mass vax sites is over. We need to take vaccination
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If you know anyone who has was waiting to get a vax until it got easier, make sure they know: now is the time.There are same-day appointments everywhere, many sites
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It's not just Brooklyn. Youth sports leagues are being denied permits on fields in Manhattan and all over NYC.This will lead to informal use of the fields, without the health
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The "just say no" approach is not sustainable.In the real world we need to give people the tools to understand--and minimize--the risks of in-person interactions.The CDC has failed to offer
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It’s time to update the all-or-nothing messaging on Covid-19 risk.Let’s give people the tools to understand that the riskiness of social activities lies on a spectrum.We are staring quarantine fatigue
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NYC has met, or nearly meet, most of the benchmarks laid out by the State for reopening. Except two:==> # of new covid patients hospitalized daily (needs to be under
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NYC Health Dept has published an update on covid-19 by race.Age adjusted deaths per 100k:* African American 127.1* Latino/a 114.0* White 63.5* Asian 51.6We are not making progress on these
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BREAKING: NYC publishes, for first time, data on fatalities that includes "probable" cases (those without a confirmed test result).It has pushed the death toll in NYC up by 57%.Was 6,589
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Every single measure of this pandemic is an undercount. Every. Single. One.Confirmed cases? Skewed by lack of testing.Hospitalizations? Skewed by huge # of sick people we are sending home because
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If you live in a large house and have COVID-19, you can isolate from your family by, say, moving into the basement.But what about the rest of us? How can
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Now only those few who had a test confirmation *before* dying are marked as victims of coronavirus on their death certificate. This almost certainly means we are undercounting the total
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NYC’s “city morgue” is the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME), which luckily is the best in the world.But they are now dealing w/ the equivalent of an ongoing
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