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Officials find slender rays of hope in hospital statistics as the coronavirus pandemic claims *another* 716 New Yorkers in Gotham alone in just one day. City death toll now sits at a nearly incomprehensible 4,260 -- https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/new-york-state-is-flattening-the-curve-of-coronavirus-cases-cuomo/
That's the lead spread in tomorrow's paper, as anchored by the fantastic reporting and writing of @juliakmarsh, @bern_hogan and @BruceGoldingNYP.
Plus, a giant story on the disproportionate hit the Big Apple's black and Hispanic communities have taken as the pandemic rips through the five boroughs -- https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/de-blasio-releases-racial-breakdown-data-of-coronavirus-deaths/
The virus claimed the life of Richard Brodsky, the longtime Assemblyman and occasional grump whose campaign for reform helped make Albany more transparent. Read the excellent obit by @ccampy and co. -- https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/former-ny-assemblyman-richard-brodsky-dies-of-suspected-coronavirus/
We chronicled how the soaring death toll is overwhelming the city's funeral homes -- https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/nyc-funeral-homes-overwhelmed-by-covid-19-death-toll/
We took you inside the Cathedral of St. John's of the Divine as it's converted into a field hospital -- https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/inside-the-coronavirus-hospital-at-nycs-cathedral-of-st-john-the-divine/
@dahvnyc introduced y'all to a hero helping to keep the subways cleaned -- https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/nyc-subway-cleaner-keeps-workers-safe-amid-coronavirus/
And we remembered a hero nurse who lost her life to coronavirus -- https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/emergency-room-clerk-at-forest-hills-hospital-dies-of-coronavirus/
This is just a sampling of the coronavirus coverage the Post put online today and will appear in the paper tomorrow.
It's put together every day and night by my dozens upon dozens of supremely talented and tireless colleagues who love this city like nothing else. Give it a read.
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