Some New Yorkers had antibodies for the new coronavirus more than a week before the first official case in the state was announced on March 1, new research shows. The findings, released Monday by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, signal that the virus may have been introduced in the New…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned Tuesday that the economy is not going to "just bounce back" even as the state begins its phased reopening plan in some regions. "We've lost thousands of small businesses that are just not going to reopen their doors," Cuomo said during a press conference from the New York Stock Exchange in…
Some 78% of New York voters say they trust Gov. Andrew Cuomo to decide when to reopen their state, compared to 16% who say they trust President Trump. Here, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence watch a video of Cuomo speaking, during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House last week. Patrick Semansky/AP…
TOPLINE 13.9% of people surveyed in New York tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies—a whopping 10 times higher than the state’s presumed infection rate, but still far from what would be considered herd immunity from the pandemic. NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 23: Members of the community wait in line for meals to be distributed at…
Since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, thousands of New York City residents with symptoms of the disease it causes have called for ambulances, only to die before or just after the EMTs arrived.Why? The experts and the data suggest the reasons are linked to the patients' home addresses — but also to effects of…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…