"A lot of kids have been through nothing short of trauma," says Hizzoner about impact of COVID. To which, I say, you could probably say this about the whole city at this point.
"This is something that has not gotten the attention it deserves," says Hizzoner, about his NYC Care card, the rollout of which City Hall repeatedly botched.
So, yes, definitely (as usual) the media's fault.
Question about adding more space to PS 108 in The Bronx so they can go from K-5 to K-8.
Mayor de Blasio gets a question on heat -- and why this remains an issue.
He says that the state needs to toughen the penalties landlords and that the city is doing what it can with its authorities.
Lehrer plays tape of a moving call from earlier this week where the caller wondered why there can't be a centralized system where people take a number for their vaccine. He "has a point."
De Blasio is now blaming the fact there's no 'universal healthcare system'
"Everyone has different systems, I cannot require them to use the same system," says Blas.
Fair point. Also fair? Until this week, the city sanctioned/run mass vax sites were on at least three different computer systems until this last week. That, Hizzoner does control.
Caller was Jack in LIC.
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So, they're arguing lots of things that no one is arguing: 1) No one said the memo was the sole driver or the principal driver. They said it was a contributor and the data shows it might have increased the already high death toll by 1,000 people -- nypost.com/2021/02/18/cuo…
2) They're arguing that patients had nowhere else to go, even though they had largely empty temporary hospitals and the hospital ship that could have taken the transfers.
There were requests for such transfers that were ignored.
"There's a race for mayor in New York City and many people have been speaking to me about it," says Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as the clock moves from 'change-the-subject' o'clock to 'twist-the-knife-in-Bill-de-Blasio' o'clock
"NYCHA is an ongoing tragedy"
Also, remember that Gov. Cuomo promised NYCHA $550m, but:
- Barred $100m from going to structural uses
- Then took years to okay the allocation of the remaining $450m
Newspapers are good! No one screams at you. The important stuff goes in, the unimportant doesn't. They come in several sizes that allow you to choose from august layouts with passive-voiced headlines and more compact sizes with funny headlines!
SCOOP: The state's controversial March 25 order to nursing homes to accept hospital patients could have led to 1,000 additional deaths, a new analysis found -- nypost.com/2021/02/18/cuo…
"The report concludes that the March 25 directive 'was not the sole or primary cause of the heavy death toll in nursing homes.' But [it] 'clearly did make some difference and it made a bad situation worse,'" said @NYHammond -- nypost.com/2021/02/18/cuo…
Upstate nursing homes that accepted COVID patients transferred from hospitals saw 9.3 more deaths on average than nursing homes that didn't. There was no statistically significant difference downstate, the Empire Center data analysis found. -- nypost.com/2021/02/18/cuo…