#Legionnaires’ outbreak confirmed in Bronx neighborhood

#Legionnaires’ outbreak confirmed in Bronx neighborhood

“Legionnaires’ outbreak confirmed in Bronx neighborhood” An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has been reported in a Bronx neighborhood, city health officials said Friday. Four people in the borough’s Highbridge neighborhood have been diagnosed with the disease, which is a type of pneumonia caused by bacteria that forms in warm water, according to the city Department…

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#NYC patient tests positive for virus related to monkeypox

#NYC patient tests positive for virus related to monkeypox

“NYC patient tests positive for virus related to monkeypox” A New York City patient tested positive for a family of viruses that monkeypox belongs to, health officials said Friday, but it was still unclear if the person was infected with the rare disease. Two patients had been under investigation by the city’s health department for…

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#Dirty rotten Albany scoundrels block nursing-home probe

#Dirty rotten Albany scoundrels block nursing-home probe

“Dirty rotten Albany scoundrels block nursing-home probe” The coverup of ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s deadly nursing-home pandemic policies continues as Albany’s legislative leaders are quashing a bipartisan measure to probe the scandal more fully. Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens) and Sen. Jim Tedisco (R-Schenectady) accuse the Democrats who control both chambers of the Legislature of stalling their…

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#NY undercounted COVID nursing home deaths to boost Cuomo: comptroller

#NY undercounted COVID nursing home deaths to boost Cuomo: comptroller

“NY undercounted COVID nursing home deaths to boost Cuomo: comptroller” The state Health Department intentionally “misled the public” about the number of nursing home deaths from COVID-19 to help burnish former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s reputation before a sexual harassment scandal forced him to resign in disgrace, according to a blistering comptroller’s audit released Tuesday. Auditors…

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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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#Long Island judge throws out Hochul’s mask mandate

#Long Island judge throws out Hochul’s mask mandate

“#Long Island judge throws out Hochul’s mask mandate” A Long Island judge ruled against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s controversial mask mandate on Monday — in a move that could lead to the lifting of similar orders in schools across the state. Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Thomas Rademaker threw out a Nov. 24 rule issued by…

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#Medical practice is now pushing toward rank racism in the name of ‘anti-racism’

#Medical practice is now pushing toward rank racism in the name of ‘anti-racism’

“#Medical practice is now pushing toward rank racism in the name of ‘anti-racism’” Even as the Adams administration was quietly undoing its predecessor’s racist outrage in the name medical racial “equity,” the federal Food and Drug Administration began pushing the same madness, in this case rationing COVID-19 antibody treatments according to skin color. Oh, and…

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