How has the Coronavirus impacted you directly, to this point?
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your health
ain't no amount of money worth that
right?
Why We Need to Upgrade Our Face Masks--and Where to Get Them
High-quality respirators such as N95s and KN95s are now widely available and provide the best protection against COVID, according to experts. Why aren’t more people wearing them?
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“Because the CDC is a federal government agency, replicating the CDC’s logo for the purpose of making or showing a fraudulent vaccine card can violate federal law,” Jackson said. “Because it jeopardizes public health and is likely also being used to defraud someone else, it can also violate state criminal laws and municipal codes.”
“The bottom line is that the consequences can be considerable,” she said.
The Bigger Reason Washington State Fired Its Vaccine-Refusing Football Coach
Other coaches around the sport, of all backgrounds and politics, understood what he didn’t.
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NHL player Evander Kane suspended following league's investigation into his Covid-19 vaccine card | CNN
The National Hockey League has handed a 21-game unpaid suspension to Evander Kane of the San Jose Sharks after an investigation into whether he submitted a fraudulent Covid-19 vaccination card, according to Front Office Sports and ESPN, which cited unnamed sources.
NYC locals sue to block permanent expanded outdoor dining
A group of NYC residents has filed suit against the city to try to prevent outdoor street dining from becoming permanent — arguing the al fresco set-ups are quality-of-life flops.
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'We fiercely disagree': SF In-N-Out sends strong message against COVID vaccine mandate
Indoor dining at the San Francisco location was shut down after not checking customers' vaccination statuses. The company responded by calling the mandate discriminatory, "offensive," and a "clear governmental overreach." Read the full statement here:
NBA: Protesters show support for Irving's vaccine stance ahead of Nets game | CNN
Protesters scaled barricades and pushed toward the doors of the Brooklyn Nets' home arena on Sunday in support of NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving, who cannot join the team as he has chosen not to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Anti-vaccine protesters support Brooklyn Nets' Kyrie Irving outside Brooklyn game | CNN
Protesters gathered outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday in support of Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving's decision to remain unvaccinated against Covid-19 despite local regulations that prohibit unvaccinated players from participating in home games.
Brooklyn Nets forced to lockdown the Barclay's Center after protesters clash over Kyrie Irving
NBA star Kyrie Irving refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine which ultimately led to being side-lined by the Brooklyn Nets. The NBA mandates players be vaccinated since they come in such contact with each other while playing. "Given the evolving nature of the situation and after thorough...
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Ed Sheeran Tests Positive for COVID-19: 'Self-Isolating and Following Government Guidelines'
"I'm now unable to plough ahead with any in person commitments for now, so I'll be doing as many of my planned interviews/performances I can from my house," Ed Sheeran shared
Unvaccinated people should expect to catch COVID-19 every 16 months
“Our results are based on average times of waning immunity across multiple infected individuals.”
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COVID-19 reinfection is likely among unvaccinated individuals, Yale study finds
A recent study at the Yale School of Public Health analyzed immunological data from close viral relatives of SARS-CoV-2 to determine how long natural immunity […]
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Covid, flu and the super-cold: what to do to fight back
It feels as if multiple viruses are out to get us right now — and we’re not sure if we’re ready. The Times asks immunology expert Dr Jenna Macciochi for the best ways we can protect ourselves.
It feels as if multiple viruses are out to get us right now — and we’re not sure if we’re ready. The Times asks immunology expert Dr Jenna Macciochi for the best ways we can protect ourselves.
Health: Covid, flu and the super-cold: what to do to fight back
Covid, flu and the super-cold: what to do to fight back It feels as if multiple viruses are out to get us right now — and we’re not sure if we’re ready. The Times asks immunology expert Dr Jenna Macciochi for the best ways we can protect ourselves...
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Enrollment in N.Y.C. public schools declined by 50,000 since the start of the pandemic.
Students in the Bronx on the first day of school waiting to enter their classrooms.Credit...Anna Watts for The New York Times
By Eliza Shapiro
Enrollment in New York City’s public school system has dropped by about 50,000 students since the fall of 2019, the Department of Education said on Friday, the latest example of the profound disruption the pandemic has had on public education across the country.
The 4.5 percent drop was likely driven by a number of factors, including parents choosing to home-school their children either temporarily or long-term, families leaving the city during the pandemic and some parents delaying the start of school for their young children altogether.
New York City lost by far the largest number of students in recent history between the fall of 2019 and the fall of 2020, when about 38,000 students left the system.
But between fall of 2020 and now, enrollment fell by about 13,000 students, or roughly 1 percent, a rate that mirrors prepandemic drops in 2018 and 2019.
Los Angeles and Chicago, home to the biggest districts in the United States after New York, lost a larger percentage of students this year.
There are currently just over 1 million children enrolled in all of New York City’s public schools, including charter schools. About 938,000 of those students are enrolled in traditional district schools, according to preliminary data from the Department of Education.
Though New York is home to by far the largest school district in the country, enrollment has been steadily declining for years, prompted in part by families leaving the city in search of more affordable housing.
The losses over the past year were concentrated in non-charter district schools, which lost about 17,000 students. They have seen an enrollment decline of over 60,000 students, or roughly 6 percent, since the start of the pandemic. Charters have been steadily gaining enrollment for most of the last decade, but enrollment dipped slightly this year compared to last.
Daily attendance among enrolled students in city schools this fall is slightly below the typical average, at just under 90 percent. The education department had previously resisted explaining how it calculated that rate, but it said on Friday that it was tracking 869,000 students under its regular attendance system, excluding most children in prekindergarten and other early childhood programs.
Unlike many districts across the country, New York saw an increase in enrollment for young children: The city added seats in its pre-K program.
School districts across the country have been grappling with enrollment drops worsened by the pandemic’s profound effect on public education. A recent New York Times analysis found that about 340,000 kindergarten students nationwide did not show up to virtual or in-person classes during the pandemic.
Students in the Bronx on the first day of school waiting to enter their classrooms.Credit...Anna Watts for The New York Times
By Eliza Shapiro
- Oct. 29, 2021
Enrollment in New York City’s public school system has dropped by about 50,000 students since the fall of 2019, the Department of Education said on Friday, the latest example of the profound disruption the pandemic has had on public education across the country.
The 4.5 percent drop was likely driven by a number of factors, including parents choosing to home-school their children either temporarily or long-term, families leaving the city during the pandemic and some parents delaying the start of school for their young children altogether.
New York City lost by far the largest number of students in recent history between the fall of 2019 and the fall of 2020, when about 38,000 students left the system.
But between fall of 2020 and now, enrollment fell by about 13,000 students, or roughly 1 percent, a rate that mirrors prepandemic drops in 2018 and 2019.
Los Angeles and Chicago, home to the biggest districts in the United States after New York, lost a larger percentage of students this year.
There are currently just over 1 million children enrolled in all of New York City’s public schools, including charter schools. About 938,000 of those students are enrolled in traditional district schools, according to preliminary data from the Department of Education.
Though New York is home to by far the largest school district in the country, enrollment has been steadily declining for years, prompted in part by families leaving the city in search of more affordable housing.
The losses over the past year were concentrated in non-charter district schools, which lost about 17,000 students. They have seen an enrollment decline of over 60,000 students, or roughly 6 percent, since the start of the pandemic. Charters have been steadily gaining enrollment for most of the last decade, but enrollment dipped slightly this year compared to last.
Daily attendance among enrolled students in city schools this fall is slightly below the typical average, at just under 90 percent. The education department had previously resisted explaining how it calculated that rate, but it said on Friday that it was tracking 869,000 students under its regular attendance system, excluding most children in prekindergarten and other early childhood programs.
Unlike many districts across the country, New York saw an increase in enrollment for young children: The city added seats in its pre-K program.
School districts across the country have been grappling with enrollment drops worsened by the pandemic’s profound effect on public education. A recent New York Times analysis found that about 340,000 kindergarten students nationwide did not show up to virtual or in-person classes during the pandemic.
COVID-19's global death toll tops 5 million in under 2 years
The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 5 million, nearly two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems.
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‘Defining moment’: COVID global death toll tops 5 million
The staggering figure is an understatement because not all deaths are recorded in developing countries.
The official global virus death toll has passed five million. The full count is undoubtedly higher.
Relatives attended a funeral for a man who died from the coronavirus in Valle de Chalco, Mexico, last month.Credit...Luis Cortes/Reuters
By Daniel E. Slotnik
- Nov. 1, 2021Updated 12:07 p.m. ET
The coronavirus is responsible for more than five million confirmed deaths around the world as of Monday, according to data from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Such a loss would wipe out almost the entire population of Melbourne, Australia, or most of the nation of Singapore.
Experts say that five million is an undercount. Many countries are unable to accurately record the number of people who have died from Covid-19, like India and African nations; experts have questioned the veracity of data from other countries, like Russia.
“All of these estimates still rely on data being available, or someone going and collecting it before antibodies and local memories wane,” said Adam Kucharski, an associate professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who mathematically analyzes infectious disease outbreaks. “Globally, there will have been numerous local tragedies going unreported.”
The real number of people lost to Covid-19 could be underestimated by “a multiple of two to 10” in some nations, said Denis Nash, an epidemiologist at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Overall, he said, the true global toll could be as high as twice the reported figure (not up to 10 times, as an earlier version of this item incorrectly implied).
The pace of confirmed deaths seems to have slowed slightly since the world reached four million in early July, despite the rapid spread of the Delta variant since then — a sign that the spread of vaccines could be having an impact, at least in some parts of the world. It took nine months for the virus to kill one million people, three and a half more to reach two million, another three to claim three million and about two and a half to exceed four million.
The United States leads all other countries, with more than 745,000 deaths confirmed in total. The nations with the highest reported death tolls after the United States are, in order, Brazil, India, Mexico and Russia.
The global rate of reported deaths climbed over the past two weeks after trending downward for much of September and the first half of October, but at an average of over 7,000 deaths per day remains about 3,000 less than its August peak. The World Health Organization said last week in a report on pandemic conditions that confirmed deaths had increased in Europe and Southeast Asia, and declined in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Dr. Nash said that the death rate appeared to be slowing “in places around the world where we are doing a good job at counting deaths, which also happen to be places in the world that have the best access to vaccines.”
But, he continued, “I think there are places where there are increases in the death rates, but we’re just not measuring them.”
The 20 countries that have recorded the most reported deaths per capita in recent weeks are mostly in Eastern Europe and the Caribbean, and most of them have vaccinated far less than half of their populations.
Coronavirus cases are rising in Europe, even though three-quarters of the European Union’s adult population has been fully vaccinated. Those inoculation rates plummet in countries like Bulgaria and Romania, and are even lower in nations that are outside of the bloc, like Armenia.
That vaccination gap persisted even when shots became more widely available. A September report on perceptions of the pandemic by the European Council on Foreign Relations said that the disparity seemed to be driven largely by misinformation, distrust and skepticism.
Vaccine hesitancy is also a major problem for Caribbean nations, and many of them also face unequal distribution of doses and logistical hurdles, the W.H.O. said in October.
W.H.O. officials have pressed wealthy nations to provide more vaccines to poorer ones. They and others have decried vaccine hoarding and most booster shot programs when much of the world has yet to be inoculated. Worldwide, about 76 percent of shots that have been administered have been so in high- and upper-middle-income countries, according to the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford. Only 0.6 percent of doses have been administered in low-income countries.
Dr. Nash said he was hopeful that expanded access to vaccines and new pharmaceutical treatments, including an antiviral pill by Merck, would eventually rein in the virus.
Dr. Kucharski said that the actual number of dead would not be known for a long time.
“People need to be aware that it may take years to truly understand the toll of Covid-19,” he said.
China imposes curbs as COVID-19 rears its head again
Coronavirus is rearing its head again in China, from where the deadly disease is believed to have emerged. Officials are resorting to strict measures to control the spread. Here are more details on this.
Coronavirus is rearing its head again in China, from where the deadly disease is believed to have emerged. Officials are resorting to strict measures to control the spread. Here are more details on this.
3028 - If my employer requires proof of my COVID-19 vaccination status, does that violate my rights under HIPAA?
In general, the HIPAA Rules do not apply to employers or employment records. HIPAA only applies to HIPAA covered entities – health care providers, health plans, and health care clearinghouses – and, to some extent, to their business associates. If an employer asks an employee to provide proof that they have been vaccinated, that is not a HIPAA violation, and employees may decide whether to provide that information to their employer.
Vaccines protect workers and help business reopen safely, and are available at no cost to everyone in the United States age 12 and older. However, if you are unvaccinated and returning to work in person, there are steps you can take to protect yourself and others in the workplace.
In general, the HIPAA Rules do not apply to employers or employment records. HIPAA only applies to HIPAA covered entities – health care providers, health plans, and health care clearinghouses – and, to some extent, to their business associates. If an employer asks an employee to provide proof that they have been vaccinated, that is not a HIPAA violation, and employees may decide whether to provide that information to their employer.
Vaccines protect workers and help business reopen safely, and are available at no cost to everyone in the United States age 12 and older. However, if you are unvaccinated and returning to work in person, there are steps you can take to protect yourself and others in the workplace.
Pharmacies to offer COVID-19 vaccines to kids: Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid to begin shots
CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid are poised to begin administering COVID-19 vaccinations for kids ages 5-11 after the CDC signed off.
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is this a SHOT at Kyrie?
(no pun inteneded)
Dining Sheds Saved N.Y.C. Could They Destroy It?
The Lower East Side has turned into an all-night fraternity party, locals say, and small businesses are asking for help.
Business owner Ellen Koenigsberg deals regularly with the aftereffects of a rowdy outdoor drinking scene that has taken over the narrow streets of the Lower East Side.Credit...Holly Pickett for The New York Times
By Ginia Bellafante
Ms. Bellafante writes the Big City column, a weekly commentary on the politics, culture and life of New York City.
Nov. 5, 2021
Ellen Koenigsberg has owned a vintage clothing store on Ludlow Street for 20 years, a feat so remarkable it puts you in mind of the runner who maintains a lightning pace well into middle age, past serial injuries. Occupying the ground floor of a small tenement building, the store, Ellen, is about the size of a master bath in a fancy apartment. The vibe is unflashy — Oxfords, silk blouses with bows, dresses with labels from department stores that long predate eBay.
Over two decades, her business has survived repeated onslaughts — from the unchecked commercialization of the Lower East Side and the codified tastes of the Instagram age, to incursions from retailers like the RealReal (the San Francisco-based consignment “disrupter”) and the dramatic shifts in buying habits brought on by Covid. The end might have come a dozen times and all too predictably. Ms. Koenigsberg, a former makeup artist, is also beholden to a landlord who has been hit with building-code violations and was sued by the city for running illegal Airbnb rentals. So it would have been hard to imagine, at the outset of the pandemic, that the most seemingly dangerous assassin was yet to appear.
“Does this look like Paris?” Ms. Koenigsberg asked one recent morning. We were standing outside her shop on Ludlow Street, which was flanked on both sides by plywood dining sheds extending deep into the street, one of them with graffiti that skewed on the side of aimless vandalism over any attempt at art. Trash bags were piled up out front. If the outdoor dining scene on the Upper East Side or in the moneyed quarters of Brooklyn has evoked the Left Bank, here it has felt chaotic and filthy — anathema to anyone inclined toward the long, meandering walk of a kind that might wind up in the serendipitous purchase of a Bill Blass scarf from the 1980s.
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Rats have taken up residence in the outdoor sheds, said a resident who complained that the vermin were basically “getting room service.’’ Credit...Holly Pickett for The New York Times
Since the 19th century, shopping has been an animating pastime on the Lower East Side, but at some point well into the 21st, a frat-boy style of barhopping superseded it as the reigning recreation. “It was really bad before Covid, but this has made things unlivable,” Ms. Koenigsberg told me, the “this” being a party that has poured into the streets with no apparent closing hour. Often, after the deluge, she will arrive at her store in the morning to find greasy napkins, cockroaches, stamped out cigarettes and evidence that last night’s celebrants elected to relieve themselves at the most convenient point possible.
The garbage, the indifferent foot traffic, the music pumped into the streets all led Ms. Koenigsberg to join 21 other plaintiffs, who collectively have spent hundreds of years living downtown, in a suit filed against the city in New York State Supreme Court last month, demanding that a serious impact study be conducted before the outdoor dining program is made permanent and expanded.
It is the nature of things in a place where space is so scarce that a munificent policy gesture over here so quickly comes to seem like a shaft over there. The city permitted bars and restaurants to set up on sidewalks and in the streets as an emergency measure to save a devastated industry vital to the economy. But in parts of Manhattan, that colonization of public space now makes it harder to walk around, to say the least of navigating a wheelchair or getting a street cleaner or ambulance down a narrow byway. The suit outlines all the different ways that this has played out, with Ms. Koenigsberg describing the sense of abandonment she has felt as someone who had fully supported the restaurant initiative — her father used to own a steakhouse in Midtown — but would now like to see the same attention turned toward stores like hers.
The petitioners are, for the most part, people similar in profile — Ms. Koenigsberg is 62 and lives with her teenage daughter in a rent-stabilized walk-up near her store, which is to say that they aren’t made up of the rich, inconvenienced by the heightened traffic that has lengthened the drive to the country. Margie Dienstag, who came to New York from Haiti as a child and who has lived in her apartment in the Village since the early 1980s, explained how all the added noise and stimulation has made life especially challenging for her autistic son.
“We were here during the pandemic; we don’t have a second home; we were the ones getting takeout. The local restaurants weren’t delivering food to East Hampton,” she said. “We supported them. But now this is too much.” What she is hoping for is better and more efficient regulation — perhaps beginning with an end to the vermin problem. As president of a local neighborhood association, she planted flowers around tree beds in the spring only to find them destroyed by rats who have taken up residence under dining sheds and are, as she put it, “getting room service.’'
Around the corner from Ellen, on Rivington Street, is another vintage clothing store whose glass front was recently defaced by an acid-based paint that is very hard to remove. Diem Boyd, who a decade ago founded L.E.S. Dwellers to deal with quality-of-life issues in the neighborhood, lives upstairs and has fought against what she sees as an escalating lawlessness, fueled by the omnipresence of alcohol and extreme enough now to resurrect an open-air drug trade. When we met up, she pointed to the second floor of a building across the street from her apartment that last spring had been the site of a shooting gallery until the police shut it down.
In an affidavit submitted with the lawsuit, Ms. Boyd explained that within a 57-acre patch of the Lower East Side, there are more than 130 active liquor licenses, which translates roughly to 2.3 bars per acre or 11.5 bars per block. She quoted the former commissioner of the New York State Liquor Authority remarking that in terms of establishments selling alcohol, the neighborhood was “probably one of the most saturated areas in the world.”
A few weeks before the suit was filed, the city’s planning commission held a public hearing on outdoor dining in which a representative from a hospitality trade group pointed out that the program saved 100,000 jobs in New York City. Some restaurant owners said that it has often been hard to determine the rules and regulations accompanying the program until they are faced with heavy fines for violating them. The incoming mayoral administration will have its own ideas about the ways in which open streets ought to function, but clear messaging about what is required ought to be a first step. A further way forward might be to cater rules and regulations to the needs of specific neighborhoods, given that some are much more densely populated than others. It is also easy to imagine an approach in which restaurants in those areas operated outdoor tables in rotation, essentially taking turns. Manhattan is half the physical size of Paris with nearly as many people.
What might work on the Boulevard St.-Germain — or on Madison Avenue — will not necessarily succeed on the Lower East Side, where crowded tenement living at the turn of the 19th century sparked public-health crises for decades. Untamed nightlife shouldn’t be the reason for more.
The Lower East Side has turned into an all-night fraternity party, locals say, and small businesses are asking for help.
Business owner Ellen Koenigsberg deals regularly with the aftereffects of a rowdy outdoor drinking scene that has taken over the narrow streets of the Lower East Side.Credit...Holly Pickett for The New York Times
By Ginia Bellafante
Ms. Bellafante writes the Big City column, a weekly commentary on the politics, culture and life of New York City.
Nov. 5, 2021
Ellen Koenigsberg has owned a vintage clothing store on Ludlow Street for 20 years, a feat so remarkable it puts you in mind of the runner who maintains a lightning pace well into middle age, past serial injuries. Occupying the ground floor of a small tenement building, the store, Ellen, is about the size of a master bath in a fancy apartment. The vibe is unflashy — Oxfords, silk blouses with bows, dresses with labels from department stores that long predate eBay.
Over two decades, her business has survived repeated onslaughts — from the unchecked commercialization of the Lower East Side and the codified tastes of the Instagram age, to incursions from retailers like the RealReal (the San Francisco-based consignment “disrupter”) and the dramatic shifts in buying habits brought on by Covid. The end might have come a dozen times and all too predictably. Ms. Koenigsberg, a former makeup artist, is also beholden to a landlord who has been hit with building-code violations and was sued by the city for running illegal Airbnb rentals. So it would have been hard to imagine, at the outset of the pandemic, that the most seemingly dangerous assassin was yet to appear.
“Does this look like Paris?” Ms. Koenigsberg asked one recent morning. We were standing outside her shop on Ludlow Street, which was flanked on both sides by plywood dining sheds extending deep into the street, one of them with graffiti that skewed on the side of aimless vandalism over any attempt at art. Trash bags were piled up out front. If the outdoor dining scene on the Upper East Side or in the moneyed quarters of Brooklyn has evoked the Left Bank, here it has felt chaotic and filthy — anathema to anyone inclined toward the long, meandering walk of a kind that might wind up in the serendipitous purchase of a Bill Blass scarf from the 1980s.
Image
Rats have taken up residence in the outdoor sheds, said a resident who complained that the vermin were basically “getting room service.’’ Credit...Holly Pickett for The New York Times
Since the 19th century, shopping has been an animating pastime on the Lower East Side, but at some point well into the 21st, a frat-boy style of barhopping superseded it as the reigning recreation. “It was really bad before Covid, but this has made things unlivable,” Ms. Koenigsberg told me, the “this” being a party that has poured into the streets with no apparent closing hour. Often, after the deluge, she will arrive at her store in the morning to find greasy napkins, cockroaches, stamped out cigarettes and evidence that last night’s celebrants elected to relieve themselves at the most convenient point possible.
The garbage, the indifferent foot traffic, the music pumped into the streets all led Ms. Koenigsberg to join 21 other plaintiffs, who collectively have spent hundreds of years living downtown, in a suit filed against the city in New York State Supreme Court last month, demanding that a serious impact study be conducted before the outdoor dining program is made permanent and expanded.
It is the nature of things in a place where space is so scarce that a munificent policy gesture over here so quickly comes to seem like a shaft over there. The city permitted bars and restaurants to set up on sidewalks and in the streets as an emergency measure to save a devastated industry vital to the economy. But in parts of Manhattan, that colonization of public space now makes it harder to walk around, to say the least of navigating a wheelchair or getting a street cleaner or ambulance down a narrow byway. The suit outlines all the different ways that this has played out, with Ms. Koenigsberg describing the sense of abandonment she has felt as someone who had fully supported the restaurant initiative — her father used to own a steakhouse in Midtown — but would now like to see the same attention turned toward stores like hers.
The petitioners are, for the most part, people similar in profile — Ms. Koenigsberg is 62 and lives with her teenage daughter in a rent-stabilized walk-up near her store, which is to say that they aren’t made up of the rich, inconvenienced by the heightened traffic that has lengthened the drive to the country. Margie Dienstag, who came to New York from Haiti as a child and who has lived in her apartment in the Village since the early 1980s, explained how all the added noise and stimulation has made life especially challenging for her autistic son.
“We were here during the pandemic; we don’t have a second home; we were the ones getting takeout. The local restaurants weren’t delivering food to East Hampton,” she said. “We supported them. But now this is too much.” What she is hoping for is better and more efficient regulation — perhaps beginning with an end to the vermin problem. As president of a local neighborhood association, she planted flowers around tree beds in the spring only to find them destroyed by rats who have taken up residence under dining sheds and are, as she put it, “getting room service.’'
Around the corner from Ellen, on Rivington Street, is another vintage clothing store whose glass front was recently defaced by an acid-based paint that is very hard to remove. Diem Boyd, who a decade ago founded L.E.S. Dwellers to deal with quality-of-life issues in the neighborhood, lives upstairs and has fought against what she sees as an escalating lawlessness, fueled by the omnipresence of alcohol and extreme enough now to resurrect an open-air drug trade. When we met up, she pointed to the second floor of a building across the street from her apartment that last spring had been the site of a shooting gallery until the police shut it down.
In an affidavit submitted with the lawsuit, Ms. Boyd explained that within a 57-acre patch of the Lower East Side, there are more than 130 active liquor licenses, which translates roughly to 2.3 bars per acre or 11.5 bars per block. She quoted the former commissioner of the New York State Liquor Authority remarking that in terms of establishments selling alcohol, the neighborhood was “probably one of the most saturated areas in the world.”
A few weeks before the suit was filed, the city’s planning commission held a public hearing on outdoor dining in which a representative from a hospitality trade group pointed out that the program saved 100,000 jobs in New York City. Some restaurant owners said that it has often been hard to determine the rules and regulations accompanying the program until they are faced with heavy fines for violating them. The incoming mayoral administration will have its own ideas about the ways in which open streets ought to function, but clear messaging about what is required ought to be a first step. A further way forward might be to cater rules and regulations to the needs of specific neighborhoods, given that some are much more densely populated than others. It is also easy to imagine an approach in which restaurants in those areas operated outdoor tables in rotation, essentially taking turns. Manhattan is half the physical size of Paris with nearly as many people.
What might work on the Boulevard St.-Germain — or on Madison Avenue — will not necessarily succeed on the Lower East Side, where crowded tenement living at the turn of the 19th century sparked public-health crises for decades. Untamed nightlife shouldn’t be the reason for more.
Hollywood’s Covid Protocols & Mandatory Vaccinations Extended To January 15
Hollywood’s Covid-19 safety protocols include testing and vaccination mandates have been extended to January 15. They were to expire Oct. 31.
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Hollywood’s Covid Protocols & Mandatory Vaccinations Extended To January 15
By David Robb
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Hollywood’s Covid-19 safety protocols have been extended to January 15. The protocols, which had been set to expire on Oct. 31, include testing and vaccination mandates.
Established in September 2020 by an agreement between the AMPTP and Hollywood’s unions – the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, the Teamsters and the Basic Crafts – the return-to-work protocols had originally been set to expire on April 30, but were extended with no major modifications and contained all of the original agreement’s provisions, including strictly enforced testing regimens, physical distancing, Covid compliance officers, diligent use of personal protective equipment and a “Zone” system to ensure that different sections of productions are tightly controlled based on proximity to cast, who often can’t wear masks or maintain social distancing while working.
Vaccinations as a condition of employment were first allowed last July when producers were given “the option to implement mandatory vaccination policies for casts and crew in Zone A on a production-by-production basis.” Zone A, where unmasked actors work, is the most restrictive of the safe work zones on sets.
Labor and management agree that the protocols have enabled jobs and productions to safely rebound during the pandemic.
Race gaps in COVID-19 deaths are even bigger than they appear
CDC data shows that the death rates among Black and Hispanic/Latino people are much higher than for white people, in all age categories.
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More Broadway Shows Cancel Holiday Performances Due to Omicron Variant
Waitress, The Lion King, Six, and more cancel Broadway shows this week.
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More Broadway Shows Cancel Holiday Performances Due to Omicron Variant
By Jennifer Zhan
Photo: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
Update, Tuesday, December 21 at 7:30 p.m.: According to Playbill, more Broadway shows have canceled performances in response to rising COVID cases in New York due to the Omicron variant. The Broadway production of Six has continued its cancelation by postponing shows until December 29. Waitress canceled several performances this week but intends to reopen the diner on December 23. The Lion King canceled its holiday shows and is expected to resume on December 27. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has canceled more shows and plans to return on December 28. All shows are refunding canceled performances at their point of purchase.
Hollywood Reporter spoke to the Broadway League President, Charlotte St. Martin, who confirmed that Broadway has “absolutely no plans to shut down” widely and will continue to handle each show cancelation on a case by case basis.
Update, Monday, December 20 at 10:00 p.m.: Jagged Little Pill has become the first Broadway show to permanently close amid the December surge of COVID-19 in New York. “[T]he drastic turn of events this week with the rapid spread of the Omicron variant has, once again, changed everything,” the show’s producers wrote in a statement. “We are dismayed by what appears to be another substantial public health crisis, and – due to the detection of multiple positive Covid-19 cases within the company – need to prioritize the health and safety of the cast, crew, and entire team working on Jagged Little Pill.”
Update, Monday, December 20 at 8:35 p.m.: And the COVID-19 cancellations continue. The Broadway productions of Hamilton and Aladdin each announced on Monday that they would not hold performances through Christmas due to breakthrough cases of COVID-19. In Twitter statements, both musicals said that they would refund tickets for all canceled dates. Aladdin noted that it plans to resume performances on December 26, while Hamilton simply stated that it “will have more information on upcoming performances as soon as possible.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, the two productions are the second and third major musicals to opt out of the typically busy holiday week. The Michael Jackson musical, MJ, became the first when it announced last week that it would not resume previews until December 27. Though nine Broadway productions called off performances last week, MJ was the first to extend cancellations to Christmas shows.
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The rest of the Radio City Rockettes’ Christmas shows this year have been canceled due to COVID-19. Per the New York Times, the decision was made after four Friday performances of the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes had already been scrapped because of breakthrough coronavirus cases in the company. “We regret that we are unable to continue the Christmas Spectacular this season,” the annual show said in a statement. “We had hoped we could make it through the season and are honored to have hosted hundreds of thousands of fans at more than 100 shows over the last seven weeks.” The iconic New York City dancers had been scheduled to perform several times a day through January 2, 2022. But according to the Times, company members have had concerns about COVID protocols for several weeks. While vaccination was mandated for employees of the annual Christmas show, testing was not. Masks were recommended — but not required — for artists, cast, crew, and all audience members at Radio City Music Hall.
The cancellation comes as the state of New York set a pandemic record of 21,027 new cases on Friday, December 17. Unsurprisingly, the Rockettes aren’t the only live performers who will be missing out on holiday performances. On Broadway, where masking is mandated, several productions have dealt with outbreaks of the virus. The Michael Jackson musical announced Friday that it would remain closed until December 27 due to “multiple positive COVID-test results.” Per The Hollywood Reporter, it joined Ain’t Too Proud, Freestyle Love Supreme, Hamilton, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Tina as the ninth Broadway show to announce cancellations due to breakthrough cases this week.
By Jennifer Zhan
Photo: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
Update, Tuesday, December 21 at 7:30 p.m.: According to Playbill, more Broadway shows have canceled performances in response to rising COVID cases in New York due to the Omicron variant. The Broadway production of Six has continued its cancelation by postponing shows until December 29. Waitress canceled several performances this week but intends to reopen the diner on December 23. The Lion King canceled its holiday shows and is expected to resume on December 27. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has canceled more shows and plans to return on December 28. All shows are refunding canceled performances at their point of purchase.
Hollywood Reporter spoke to the Broadway League President, Charlotte St. Martin, who confirmed that Broadway has “absolutely no plans to shut down” widely and will continue to handle each show cancelation on a case by case basis.
Update, Monday, December 20 at 10:00 p.m.: Jagged Little Pill has become the first Broadway show to permanently close amid the December surge of COVID-19 in New York. “[T]he drastic turn of events this week with the rapid spread of the Omicron variant has, once again, changed everything,” the show’s producers wrote in a statement. “We are dismayed by what appears to be another substantial public health crisis, and – due to the detection of multiple positive Covid-19 cases within the company – need to prioritize the health and safety of the cast, crew, and entire team working on Jagged Little Pill.”
Update, Monday, December 20 at 8:35 p.m.: And the COVID-19 cancellations continue. The Broadway productions of Hamilton and Aladdin each announced on Monday that they would not hold performances through Christmas due to breakthrough cases of COVID-19. In Twitter statements, both musicals said that they would refund tickets for all canceled dates. Aladdin noted that it plans to resume performances on December 26, while Hamilton simply stated that it “will have more information on upcoming performances as soon as possible.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, the two productions are the second and third major musicals to opt out of the typically busy holiday week. The Michael Jackson musical, MJ, became the first when it announced last week that it would not resume previews until December 27. Though nine Broadway productions called off performances last week, MJ was the first to extend cancellations to Christmas shows.
Original story follows.
The rest of the Radio City Rockettes’ Christmas shows this year have been canceled due to COVID-19. Per the New York Times, the decision was made after four Friday performances of the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes had already been scrapped because of breakthrough coronavirus cases in the company. “We regret that we are unable to continue the Christmas Spectacular this season,” the annual show said in a statement. “We had hoped we could make it through the season and are honored to have hosted hundreds of thousands of fans at more than 100 shows over the last seven weeks.” The iconic New York City dancers had been scheduled to perform several times a day through January 2, 2022. But according to the Times, company members have had concerns about COVID protocols for several weeks. While vaccination was mandated for employees of the annual Christmas show, testing was not. Masks were recommended — but not required — for artists, cast, crew, and all audience members at Radio City Music Hall.
The cancellation comes as the state of New York set a pandemic record of 21,027 new cases on Friday, December 17. Unsurprisingly, the Rockettes aren’t the only live performers who will be missing out on holiday performances. On Broadway, where masking is mandated, several productions have dealt with outbreaks of the virus. The Michael Jackson musical announced Friday that it would remain closed until December 27 due to “multiple positive COVID-test results.” Per The Hollywood Reporter, it joined Ain’t Too Proud, Freestyle Love Supreme, Hamilton, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Tina as the ninth Broadway show to announce cancellations due to breakthrough cases this week.
FOX Cancels Its New Year’s Eve Toast & Roast 2022 Special
By Alejandra Gularte
Photo: FOX Image Collection via Getty Images
As COVID cases continue to rise in New York, many live entertainment events have been canceled or postponed in the big city. As excited as people are to ring in a new year, Fox’s New Year’s Eve Toast & Roast 2022 is not immune to cancelation. Fox announced Tuesday evening that the spread of Omicron has “made it impossible to produce a live special in Times Square” and will be finding replacement programming for New Year’s. The canceled event was going to be hosted by Community co-stars Joel McHale and Ken Jeong, with special correspondent Kelly Osbourne. Scheduled musical acts for the night were Imagine Dragons, Trace Adkins, and Billy Idol. Full statement from FOX is below:
By Alejandra Gularte
Photo: FOX Image Collection via Getty Images
As COVID cases continue to rise in New York, many live entertainment events have been canceled or postponed in the big city. As excited as people are to ring in a new year, Fox’s New Year’s Eve Toast & Roast 2022 is not immune to cancelation. Fox announced Tuesday evening that the spread of Omicron has “made it impossible to produce a live special in Times Square” and will be finding replacement programming for New Year’s. The canceled event was going to be hosted by Community co-stars Joel McHale and Ken Jeong, with special correspondent Kelly Osbourne. Scheduled musical acts for the night were Imagine Dragons, Trace Adkins, and Billy Idol. Full statement from FOX is below:
Before you get on the plane for the holidays, read this. Here are tips for reducing your Omicron risk
If you decide to stick to your plans, get your hands on some tests and good masks, eat before you leave for the airport, and try to maintain as much personal bubble as possible. Conversely, if you need someone’s permission to cancel Christmas at grandma’s, you have it.
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She has lost a few family members back home this past year.
She has lost a few family members back home this past year.
