#Schools aren’t COVID-19 super-spreaders, new data suggests

#Schools aren’t COVID-19 super-spreaders, new data suggests

“#Schools aren’t COVID-19 super-spreaders, new data suggests” Elementary and high schools do not appear to be COVID-19 super-spreaders, new data suggests — a finding that threatens to turn some pandemic theories on their head. Statistics involving 200,000 schoolkids from 47 states in the last two weeks of September yielded an overall coronavirus infection rate of…

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#NY movie theaters troll Gov. Andrew Cuomo

#NY movie theaters troll Gov. Andrew Cuomo

“#NY movie theaters troll Gov. Andrew Cuomo” A Regal movie theater in Times Square — shuttered like all others in the state — has found an interim use for its empty marquis: blasting Governor Andrew Cuomo. Instead of movie titles, the message that plays across the Regal E-Walk reads “48 states have reopened theaters so…

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#NY deploying COVID-19 rapid test kits to local governments, hospitals

#NY deploying COVID-19 rapid test kits to local governments, hospitals

“#NY deploying COVID-19 rapid test kits to local governments, hospitals” ALBANY — The New York State Department of Health will provide 400,000 COVID-19 rapid test kits to local governments, hospitals and other health care providers across the state, Gov. Cuomo announced Friday. The agency is prioritizing so-called hotspot cluster zones — neighborhoods experiencing upticks in…

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#Judge declines to block Cuomo’s COVID restrictions on synagogues

#Judge declines to block Cuomo’s COVID restrictions on synagogues

“#Judge declines to block Cuomo’s COVID restrictions on synagogues” A Brooklyn federal judge on Friday declined to temporarily block Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new coronavirus capacity restrictions at synagogues and other houses of worship in COVID-19 hot spots. Judge Kiyo Matsumoto, during an emergency hearing, ruled that the state restrictions do not violate the free exercise…

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#NYPD issues new order banning protests in COVID-19 hot spots

#NYPD issues new order banning protests in COVID-19 hot spots

“#NYPD issues new order banning protests in COVID-19 hot spots” Protests and demonstrations like the anti-lockdown ones that have erupted in Brooklyn will not be permitted in designated coronavirus red zones under new NYPD directives — which drew immediate outrage and accusations that Orthodox Jews were being singled out. The orders were issued Thursday in…

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