David Slotnick/Business Insider The Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian pathway is normally filled with tourists, commuters, and locals.During the coronavirus pandemic and the outbreak in New York City, the nearly empty bridge — aside from a few essential commuters and cooped-up locals looking for exercise — stands as a stark illustration of how much COVID-19 has changed…
"Right here, we are doing it alone," Cobble Hill Health Center CEO Donny Tuchman shouted Monday to cheering neighbors outside the nursing home in Brooklyn, New York. "These people right here," he said, pointing to the line of the health care staff members in full protective gear who'd walked out of the facility to accept…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.As residents at a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, began dying in late February from a coronavirus outbreak that would eventually take 43 lives, there was little sign of trouble at the Cobble Hill Health Center, a 360-bed facility in…
At least 55 residents of a New York City nursing home have died after a coronavirus outbreak crippled the facility as the death toll at care facilities in the US hits 8,000.Experts have repeatedly said that the virus is the most deadliest to the elderly population. Across the nation, nursing homes have been significantly impacted…
New York Daily News | Apr 19, 2020 | 12:04 PM A Brooklyn barber shop was busted by cops for hosting an underground party with over 50 revelers in defiance of coronavirus social distancing rules, police said. Cops arrived at eNVee Barbershop on Avenue L near 87th St. in Canarsie just after 10 p.m. to…
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…