Thursday, May 14, 2020
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Provide Update on COVID-19 Response
Global News: During Thursday's COVID-19 briefing, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson are expected to announce a plan to begin a gradual reopening of federal parks and historic sites across the country.
The plan will involve some 38 parks and 171 historic sites, including lighthouses, forts, canals and monuments, that are administered by Parks Canada.
Federal ministers and chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam are later expected to provide an update on COVID-19 cases in the country.
During Wednesday's briefing, Trudeau announced the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) as part of a $9-billion aid package for struggling students on April 22.
From The G-Man: Prime Minister Trudeau's update begins at the 1:17:37 mark.
N.Y.C. Commissioner Denies Racial Bias in Social Distancing Policing
The New York Times: Dermot F. Shea acknowledged racial disparities in the enforcement of
pandemic-related rules but said they did not stem from “racist
policing.”
Click here for the report.
Nursing Homes Are Hot Spots in the Crisis. But Don’t Try Suing Them.
The New York Times: In New York, 5,300 nursing home residents have died of Covid-19. The
nursing home lobby pressed for a provision that makes it hard for their
families to sue.
Click here for the report.
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Gov. Cuomo Holds a Briefing on the Coronavirus Outbreak
CNBC Television: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo holds his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 338,485 people across the state, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Cuomo is working toward reopening regions in the state as hospitalizations and infections from Covid-19 continue to decline. Three areas in upstate New York — the Finger Lakes, the Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley — are ready to move into phase one of the state's reopening plan, he said on Monday.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
NYC District Attorneys Vow Not to Prosecute Social Distancing Arrests
The Daily Mail: This comes after violent confrontations between cops and New Yorkers have been caught on video and gone viral.
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Manhattan Faces a Reckoning if Working From Home Becomes the Norm
The New York Times: Companies are re-evaluating the need for all workers to come to offices.
Their decisions will affect an entire ecosystem, from transit to
restaurants to shops.
Click here for the report.
Lawmakers Call for Independent Probe of Covid-19 Crisis at N.Y. Nursing Homes
By Tom Precious
ALBANY – As state lawmakers look to hold public hearings into the
high rates of Covid-19 deaths at New York nursing homes, the influential
chairman of the Assembly health committee believes an independent
counsel is also needed as part of a probe of both nursing homes and the
state government.
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, a Manhattan Democrat and longtime
chairman of the health panel that has jurisdiction over the state Health
Department, said the approach employed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to
examine the nursing home deaths needs to be re-examined by the
Democratic governor.
With New York under fire by residents’ families and health care
advocates for the large number of Covid-19 nursing home deaths, Cuomo
last month said Attorney General Letitia James and the state Health
Department would lead the investigation into what happened.
But Gottfried noted two problems with that approach.
Click here for the full report.
Source: The Buffalo News
Monday, May 11, 2020
New York Will No Longer Require Nursing Homes to Take COVID-19 Patients from Hospitals
NBC News: Gov. Andrew Cuomo's announcement follows criticism of an earlier policy mandating that nursing homes admit residents regardless of their COVID-19 status.
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A Woman Died of Covid-19 in a New Jersey Prison After Begging to Be Let Out of a Locked Shower
Tiffany Mofield
By Alice Speri
A 43-year-old woman died of coronavirus complications in a New
Jersey prison after officials moved her from an area of the
prison where she was quarantined for Covid-19 symptoms into solitary
confinement even though her symptoms persisted.
Tiffany Mofield died on April 29 at the troubled Edna Mahan
Correctional Facility for Women after begging to be let out of a locked
shower, saying “she could not breathe,” a fellow incarcerated woman who
witnessed her death told The Intercept. Mofield had spent about two
weeks quarantined in an infirmary after becoming ill with symptoms
consistent with Covid-19, but she was moved out even though “she was
clearly not better, as she was visibly short of breath and extremely
lethargic,” said Michelle Angelina, who is housed in the same
administrative segregation unit where Mofield died.
“She died right in front of my neighbor’s door and just diagonally
from my door, about five feet away,” said Angelina, who declined The
Intercept’s offer for anonymity to protect her from retaliation. “Many
inmates are frightened for our lives and safety as a result of us
witnessing Ms. Mofield die.”
Click here for the full report.
Source: The Intercept_
Supreme Court Oral Argument on Religious Organization Employees & Discrimination Claims
C-SPAN: The Supreme Court
hears oral argument via teleconference due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The case involves religious freedom and whether federal courts have a
role in discrimination cases filed by employees employed by a religious
institution.
Click here for the audio.
WHO Stresses the Importance of Slowly Lifting COVID-19 Lockdowns
The address begins at the 30:02 mark.
Cuomo Preps Parts of Upstate New York for May 15 Reopening as Coronavirus Death Toll Dips to 161
Governor Andrew Cuomo
The New York Daily News: Even as he warned that little will change in NYC or the immediate
suburbs, Cuomo suggested that some regions will likely meet a
seven-point checklist of conditions needed to allow easing of
restrictions.
Click here for the report.
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