Cobble Hill Health Center has 55 coronavirus deaths among residents
Yet another Brooklyn nursing home is racked with COVID-19, or novel coronavirus, cases despite the facility’s efforts to keep the virus away from its residents.
The Cobble Hill Health Center has suffered 55 deaths of residents due to the coronavirus, which is one of the highest death rates among nursing homes in the borough that have been reported recently.
According to the center’s CEO, Donny Tuchman, it’s true that Cobble Hill has had so many COVID deaths, but that that number only sounds so high because other facilities are not being as open with their numbers as his center is.
“There’s been a lot of lip service about how vulnerable nursing homes have been, and everyone has the best intentions, but it didn’t materialize,” Tuchman said. “The PPE didn’t materialize, the staffing surge didn’t materialize, the testing didn’t materialize. How did we expect this not to spread?”
It is unclear just how exactly the virus made its way into the health center, especially when they check the staff and all others who enter the building for a fever and other symptoms.
“They were doing the best they could, as far as we could tell at arm’s length, under siege,” Daniel Arbeeny, the son of one of Cobble Hill’s residents, said about the staff.
According to the New York State Department of Health, there have been 14,347 statewide deaths as of Monday, including 478 more fatalities in the past day of New Yorkers who have tested positive for COVID-19.
According to the New York City Department of Health, there are 129,788 confirmed cases, 34,602 hospitalizations, 8,811 confirmed deaths and 4,429 probable deaths due to coronavirus as of 1:30 p.m. yesterday.
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NYPD breaks up party of around 50 people in Brooklyn barbershop
Members of the New York Police Department broke up a party of around 50 people at a Canarsie barbershop on Saturday night, according to police officials.
The Envee Barber Shop on East 88th Street and Avenue L was crowded with people failing to comply with the city’s and state’s coronavirus social distancing mandates.
Attendees of the party were reportedly filming a music video inside of the barbershop when NYPD agents arrived on the scene.
The police issued around 60 summonses in addition to two arrests for illegal gun possession. Some individuals even resisted arrest.
Once the cops arrived, they handcuffed each participant and made them sit side by side on the sidewalk outside of the shop.
“Police are absolutely doing the right thing to break it up. We’re going to keep breaking things up, if people need to get summonses to get the message, we’re going to do it,” said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio about the incident. “And remember also in terms of the guns they picked up policing goes on, they fight to always protect public safety goes on.”
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Queens Public Library launches project aimed at sharing coronavirus stories
The Queens Public Library, in conjunction with CUNY Queens College’s library, is putting together a project about what life in the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic was like.
“Queens Memory” is asking Queens residents to share their stories about living in the borough during the coronavirus pandemic.
Each week, the program asks people different questions, such as about how they’re coping with being isolated or how they’re staying in touch with family members who are far away.
“It’s going to be really hard for those of us trying to tell people in the future who didn’t live through this time, what it was really like to be alive in New York City and really in Queens at the epicenter of the pandemic,” Queens Memory Director Natalie Milbordt said.
The stories are currently being shared on the project’s Instagram page. Personal statements and stories can be shared at queensmemory.org.
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Queens heart transplant and breast cancer survivor beats coronavirus
A Queens woman who has survived both breast cancer and a heart transplant has now also beaten the coronavirus.
Oumou Barry was discharged from Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital on Thursday to roaring applause from hospital workers who were thrilled to see her successful recovery.
“It was very scary for our whole team. She only received her heart in December 2019,” Barry’s cardiologist Dr. Anu Lala said. “We are really grateful.”
Barry is a mother of two and emphasized the importance of fighting against the virus.
“I’m so happy. I’m free. I’m free of cancer… Free [of] coronavirus. I am going home today,” she said. “We have to fight. If we fight, we are going to get through.”
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