Skip to main content

COVID Vaccine Updates: Another NYPD member falls victim to virus – WABC-TV

NEW YORK (WABC) — The NYPD is mourning the loss of another one of its members to COVID-19.

Detective Stanley Dash served in the NYPD for more than three decades.

The 57-year-old detective died Saturday from complications related to coronavirus.

The married father of two was remembered by his colleagues as a fun-loving guy with a mischievous side and a smile that lit up the room.

More than 55 members of the NYPD have died in the pandemic.

Here are more of today’s headlines:

Indoor dining rules lifting tonight in NY
Starting tonight, New York state is lifting the midnight curfew for indoor bars and restaurants. Curfews for all catered events will also go away as of midnight. Governor Andrew Cuomo has predicted that the lifting of curfews will lead to increased economic activity and growth for struggling businesses.

More Americans traveling this holiday weekend due to vaccinations
As more and more people get vaccinated and cases decline, Americans are on the go this holiday weekend at levels not seen since before the coronavirus pandemic. The numbers add up to encouraging news in the hopes of returning to a sense of normalcy. COVID cases have dropped nearly 70% in the past three weeks, with more than 50% of the country’s adults now vaccinated.

NY again sets record-low 7-day average COVID-19 positivity rate
New York set a record-low 7-day average COVID-19 positivity rate for the second straight day on Saturday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. That number dropped to 0.71 percent Saturday, down from 0.73 percent on Friday.

Germany hunts down possible fraud in virus tests
The German government is following up on media reports that coronavirus test centers across the country have overbilled authorities for the number of tests taken. Germans are allowed one free “citizen’s test” per week to check if they are negative for coronavirus. They can use the result to be able to dine at outside restaurants, go shopping or visit cultural institutions.

California seeing lower virus cases, increase in vaccinations
California residents are celebrating the sunny Memorial Day weekend more upbeat than they have been for any other holiday since the pandemic began, thanks to dramatically lower virus case rates and increasing vaccinations. About 90% of the state population is in the lower two of four tiers that restrict business operations and other activities. By June 15, California will end the tier system and relax social distancing and masking rules.

national geographic covid newsletter sign up

MORE CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 COVERAGE


Mask guidance in the Tri-State area
New York City COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker
New Jersey COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker
How to get the vaccine in NYC, Tri-State area
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on coronavirus

Submit a News Tip or Question

Copyright © 2021 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.



from WordPress https://ift.tt/3z1F5Cy
via IFTTT
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Pennsylvania court tosses school mask mandate, health secretary appeals – Fox News

An order by Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools and child care facilities was thrown out Wednesday by a state court that said she lacked the authority. The Wolf administration said lawyers were directed to file an immediate appeal. Commonwealth Court sided 4-1 with the ranking Republican in the state Senate and others who sued to challenge the masking order that took effect in early September as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s spokesperson said Health Department lawyers were directed to file an appeal to the state Supreme Court on Wednesday, a move his administration said would effectively put the new decision on hold. Kamil Esteves, 6, and Laynette Padilla, 6, make thank you cards to be sent to healthcare workers. Recently, a Pennsylvania court tossed out a mask mandate for schools.  (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images) VERMONT STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES TANK COMPARED TO PRE-CO...
Post a Comment
Read more

“Nutrition is an under-utilised area of care for Covid-19” says Nutricia – NutraIngredients.com

A survey commissioned by Nutricia, Danone’s medical nutrition arm, found that 65% of hospitalised Covid-19 patients experienced clinically significant weight loss, and only 50% received medical nutrition, with that figure falling to 15% at discharge from hospital. A total of 453 adult patients who were hospitalised with Covid-19 across the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Germany took part in the research, which was conducted by IPSOS. A longer stay in hospital was found to be linked to increased likelihood of clinically significant weight loss (>5%), and many patients reported on symptoms that could worsen their nutritional status, such as diarrhoea, loss of taste/smell and difficulty swallowing. Nutricia said the findings, which were presented at the annual conference of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) last week, revealed the need to better integrate nutrition into medical care to improve Covid-19 patient recovery in hospital and after discharge....
Post a Comment
Read more

How health care workers went from ‘heroes to villains’ – NBC News

Dr. Sheryl Recinos’ patient refused to accept her diagnosis of Covid-19. Her cough was because of Recinos’ perfume, the patient insisted, certain that her positive Covid-19 test could not be correct. Recinos, a family medicine hospitalist in California, was not wearing perfume. The test result, Recinos told her patient, was accurate. The interaction, in summer 2020, was an outlier at the time. But in recent months, such conversations have become more common.  Recinos has treated people who, two weeks into hospital stays for Covid-related breathing struggles, still do not believe they have the coronavirus. She has had patients who have questioned her judgment, patients who have demanded to be given the same medications that former President Donald Trump received when he had Covid and family members of patients who have screamed at her for something as simple as giving their loved ones oxygen, a necessary treatment that they argue is doing more harm than good. “It’s baffling. I’...
Post a Comment
Read more