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14 Mar, 8 tweets, 5 min read
People are justifiably concerned about the NY variant, but the overall case/hospitalization trends in the city are actually looking pretty good.

Here’s a list of positive signs

1) NYC case and hospitalizations continue to decline gothamist.com/news/coronavir…
2) The NYC metro area’s infection rate ranks 64th among the 100 largest urban center in the country, behind Raleigh and ahead of Kokomo, Indiana.

covidactnow.org/share/28854/?r…
3) An infection rate above 1.00 means an outbreak is growing. Below 1.00 means it’s shrinking.

NYC counties are basically holding steady. covidactnow.org/us/metro/new-y…
4) But NYC’s case rate per 100,000 isn’t dropping as fast as other metro areas. Yes, but keep in mind that NYC wasn’t hit as hard during the last surge as others, so the pace of its decline might not appear as sharp.

covidactnow.org/us/metro/new-y…
5) As I mentioned on Morning Edition this week, the NY variant has been around since November—which is around the same time that the UK variant arrived in the US...

wnyc.org/story/new-york…
NY’s second surge started around that time, too. But even though the last surge recorded 40% more cases than the one that happened last spring, it was far less fatal.

As of late Feb, the city’s second wave had caused about 80% fewer deaths than its first gothamist.com/news/why-new-y…
6) As @DrKatzNYCHH explained this week, NYC’s trend of fewer hospitalizations/deaths despite the variants might be a sign that the vaccines are crushing it.

Get those shots, folks! (And keep masking/distancing/hanging in ventilated spaces until you do)
gothamist.com/news/health-of…
Time to go enjoy the fading sunlight!

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BREAKING: CDC Issues First Set of Guidelines on How Fully Vaccinated People Can Visit Safely with Others cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
Indoor visits between fully vaccinated people and unvaccinated people who do not wear masks or physically distance from one another are likely *low risk for the vaccinated people.*

Therefore, precautions taken should be determined by the characteristics of the unvaccinated...
"If the unvaccinated people are from a single household that does not have individuals at risk of severe COVID-19, they can visit with fully vaccinated people indoors, without anyone wearing masks"

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25 Feb
Just going to say the quiet part out loud again...

Vaccine campaigns were already unrolling unequally, so Johnson & Johnson’s candidate and its lower efficacy raise some tricky ethical questions for the coming months of the rollout. gothamist.com/news/it-fair-g…
Ok now, before you smash that reply button...

Some people may see this story as a criticism of the J&J vaccine, but it's really about disparities in our health care system... gothamist.com/news/it-fair-g…
...On Wednesday, the FDA reported the one-dose candidate from Johnson & Johnson is 72 percent effective at preventing moderate to severe cases of COVID-19 in regions w/o the variants.

For the mRNA vaccines, this protection was upwards of 90 percent in clinical trials...
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20 Feb
Ask An Epidemiologist: Do I Need To Double Mask? feat. @MonicaGandhi9

It’s a good idea in some situations such as indoors. But a cloth mask with a filter works just as well.

✍️: @clewisreports for @WNYC / @Gothamist

gothamist.com/news/ask-epide…
How effective is double masking in protecting people from COVID-19?

@MonicaGandhi9: I wrote an article with @linseymarr ...The best option is a disposable surgical mask plus a cloth mask on top. That combo really looked like it blocked as much as an N95 gothamist.com/news/ask-epide…
Are there any alternatives to double masking besides the N95?

@MonicaGandhi9: We also looked at another type of mask, which is a cloth mask with a pocket for a filter inside...

...layering one cloth mask on top of another does nothing. It just makes it harder to talk.
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White privilege in news media is saying “the n-word, among other things” in front of *high school students*, and then keeping your job for more than a year

@sarahellison and @jeremymbarr dig into the *resignation* (not firing) of NYT’s Donald McNeil Jr washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021…
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Truly, wtf...

“At one point, the reporter allegedly described nepotism as “affirmative action for White people.”” washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021… Image
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Start your morning/end your week with a bit of good news.

More Than 300 Holocaust Survivors Get Vaccinated At Pop-Up Site In Bensonhurst via @WNYC / @Gothamist

✍️:@sydneyp1234
📸@s_nessen
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The single-day event was organized by the Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, @UJAfedNY, and @MobileHealthInc.

They had just days to contact some 800 mostly Russian-speaking survivors to coordinate time slots and transportation for those in need gothamist.com/news/more-300-…
“This is a humongous victory for us." - Alex Budnitsky, the executive director of the Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, which locals call the “J.”

His staff had spent weeks trying to find vaccine appointments through the normal channel. gothamist.com/news/more-300-…
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Some dazzling details in this one...

Citi Field Vaccination Site Turns Away Dozens Of Eligible Recipients On Opening Day

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Dozens of people went to the stadium who either didn’t know they needed an appointment or had tried unsuccessfully to book one ahead of time.

Citi Field only had 200 appointments available on Wednesday.
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During the opening ceremony, Mayor de Blasio said people who arrive without notice could be aided by “navigators” that could help book future appointments.

But on opening day yesterday, staff said they did not have access to the appointment system. 👀👀👀gothamist.com/news/citi-fiel…
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