By Jennifer Peltz, Michael R. Sisak and Marina Villeneuve • Published 4 hours ago • Updated 1 hour ago"
I cannot describe the sensations that poured through me when I first read this headline late this afternoon -- a combo of relief, joy and -- still, almost disbelief, disbelief that after all these cases and so much death -- that nobody died of this in the last day. Breathless.
[....]"New York City health officials reported zero deaths related to the novel coronavirus four months after the state's first official death was recorded on March 11.
According to initial data reported by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, no one died from the virus in New York City on July 11. Officials recorded no confirmed deaths the day before as well, but did have two probable deaths.
The department's data shows there hasn't been a day without a coronavirus-related death since March 13, two days after the first reported death.
Each sign of progress in New York has come in the shadow of an ever-growing national spike that continues to plague the U.S. crisis. On Sunday, Florida reported more than 15,000 positive cases of the virus. It's the highest single-day number for any state and cleared the record previously set in New York back in April.[....]
At the same time, the Democratic governor has ordered travelers from more than a dozen states to quarantine for 14 days, while urging New Yorkers not to let up on wearing masks or social distancing.
Yet with the virus tearing through the South and West, Cuomo warned Friday it would eventually rear up again in New York.
We’re doing everything we can,” he told WAMC radio, but “I can feel it coming.”
A widely cited University of Washington model doesn’t project spikes — at least through its Nov. 1 time frame — in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut, whose Democratic governors have coordinated on traveler quarantines and, earlier, some shutdown policies. But that doesn’t mean the densely populated tri-state area is in the clear."[....]If only we would be allowed to keep this up, which we could, with even fairly decent, intelligent leadership and action on the city, state and federal levels. One has little faith in mayor de Blasio, for reasons maybe rather different than having no faith in the feds as they are in These Times, but not so very different. The mayor's thinking only of himself, not the city -- and certainly not teachers and students. Only about the real estate people who are determined to have the bars and restaurants and theaters fully opened, inside and out -- which means the schools have to be reopened, because they are this nation's only daycare, and gotta get those people back making profit for us -- thus we pay them less than before even, provide no safety of equipment, clothing or conditions, and demand immunity from being held responsible for their illness and deaths.
At least we have a governor who is canny and not stupid, and has the cojones to stand up to deathcultchief demanding all the schools reopen.
But we're surrounded by idiot governors and idiots who will not distance or wear mask, so, ya, Cuomo is right about how he can even feel its looming, aimed right at us.
Still -- HOORAY!
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This is all the more welcome as there have been many visits with health care teams and doctors since the July 4th weekend. All is going very well, things are fine -- it's now trying to catch up on the tests and so on that never happened due to covid-19 and shutdown of everything, including health care for anything but that.
So ya, we believe Cuomo when he says we're far better prepared for the next loop of the virus. After so much poking and prodding and swabbing el V says he will make book nobody can do a nasal swab as fast and efficiently as a NYC medical pro.
Incidentally, every member of every team who saw him is African American or African. So are all the nurses. All the physicians who saw him are Asian. No white people anywhere treating anybody. What should we make of this?
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