#Chris Cuomo offered rare COVID plasma in 2020, emails reveal

#Chris Cuomo offered rare COVID plasma in 2020, emails reveal

“Chris Cuomo offered rare COVID plasma in 2020, emails reveal” At the height of the pandemic, the CEO of New York’s blood bank personally offered a coronavirus-stricken Chris Cuomo special access to an experimental therapy — virtually unobtainable by anyone unrelated to then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, emails reveal. The half-billion-dollar New York Blood Center’s boss, Chris…

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#Please, New Yorkers, just let the masks slide!

#Please, New Yorkers, just let the masks slide!

“Please, New Yorkers, just let the masks slide!” I live on the Upper West Side. I am a former Food and Drug Administration associate commissioner, run a not-for-profit public-health policy institute and am a visiting professor at the University of Paris Medical School. Despite my bona fides, I can’t get my neighbors or dog-park acquaintances…

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#NYC COVID hotels are handing out ‘surprise’ Coach bags

#NYC COVID hotels are handing out ‘surprise’ Coach bags

“#NYC COVID hotels are handing out ‘surprise’ Coach bags” New York City’s quarantine hotel program is no roach motel, former residents report — and the gift bags were positively luxurious.  In fact, it’s more appropriate to call the free, taxpayer-funded isolation residencies Coach motels, as many visitors received designer handbags as a parting present.  “It…

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#New York hospitals can resume elective surgeries: Hochul

#New York hospitals can resume elective surgeries: Hochul

“#New York hospitals can resume elective surgeries: Hochul” Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that New York hospitals can resume performing elective surgeries and procedures thanks to a decrease in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations tied to the virus. Hochul signed an executive order in December that mandated hospitals cancel all non-emergency surgeries in regions with high…

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#Hochul scraps booster mandate for health care workers

#Hochul scraps booster mandate for health care workers

“#Hochul scraps booster mandate for health care workers” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday scrapped a controversial state mandate that would have required all healthcare workers to get a coronavirus booster shot by Monday in order to avoid worsening staffing shortages. The state health council approved the emergency edict last month when the COVID-19…

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