#Brooklyn clinic says it returned COVID-19 vaccines amid probe

#Brooklyn clinic says it returned COVID-19 vaccines amid probe

“#Brooklyn clinic says it returned COVID-19 vaccines amid probe” A Brooklyn-based health care company said Sunday that it “proactively returned” its remaining stash of COVID-19 vaccines amid a criminal probe into allegations the doses were fraudulently obtained and diverted. In a prepared statement, ParCare Community Health Network also insisted it followed all proper procedures to…

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#NYC clinic in probe claims to not be offering unauthorized vaccines

#NYC clinic in probe claims to not be offering unauthorized vaccines

“#NYC clinic in probe claims to not be offering unauthorized vaccines” A Brooklyn clinic that’s under investigation for allegedly fraudulently obtaining and diverting highly coveted COVID-19 vaccines claimed Sunday that it’s no longer giving out shots. A hand-lettered sign saying “NO Vaccines!!” was taped to the front door of the ParCare Community Health Network storefront…

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#NYC Health Dept. warns of lingering COVID-19 illness

#NYC Health Dept. warns of lingering COVID-19 illness

“#NYC Health Dept. warns of lingering COVID-19 illness” The New York City Health Department has issued a sweeping guide warning doctors that many patients who were infected with the coronavirus are still suffering from serious health problems months after the virus passed. The patients are called COVID-19 “long-haulers” nagged by lingering breathing and other respiratory…

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#Nursing-home horrors go way beyond the virus

#Nursing-home horrors go way beyond the virus

“#Nursing-home horrors go way beyond the virus” The failure to protect nursing-home residents is by now a depressingly familiar fact of the pandemic in America — especially in the Empire State, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s grievous March order forcing homes to accept COVID-positive patients led to the death of at least 6,000 New Yorkers (the…

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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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#NYC agencies empowered to shut businesses amid coronavirus surge

#NYC agencies empowered to shut businesses amid coronavirus surge

“#NYC agencies empowered to shut businesses amid coronavirus surge” New York health commissioner Dave Chokshi on Thursday vested city agencies with the authority to shutter businesses that repeatedly flout coronavirus regulations, as an eleventh neighborhood crossed the troubling three-percent positivity rate threshold. The Department of Health announced the move hours after Mayor Bill de Blasio…

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