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The subway platform at Grand Army Plaza station on Tuesday in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

After Deaths At Home Spike In NYC, Officials Plan To Count Many As COVID-19

9:31am April 08, 2020

by Gwynne Hogan

Officials say a sudden upsurge in deaths at home is likely due to COVID-19 and they are planning to add many of them to New York's death toll, even without confirmation by a laboratory.

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New York City Plans Temporary Burials For The Dead

4:13pm April 06, 2020

by Greg Allen

New York City is struggling to handle the high number of people who have died from COVID-19. So many people have died that officials are looking to temporarily bury the bodies in a city park.

People walk and jog through Prospect Park in Brooklyn last week. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that the restrictions on daily life in New York have slowed the increase in hospitalizations.

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'We'll Get Through This': Living In New York City During The Coronavirus Pandemic

7:01am April 04, 2020

by Sally Herships

Politicians give speeches and scary headlines fill the news, but somehow life pushes on for New Yorkers.

A ventilator and other hospital equipment is seen in an emergency field hospital to aid in the coronavirus pandemic in Central Park in New York City on Tuesday.

Ventilator Shortages Loom As States Ponder Rules For Rationing

1:02pm April 03, 2020

Many states are projected to have excessive demand for ventilator machines in the coming weeks, but no state government has formally asked hospitals to prepare for difficult and complex crisis triage.

A spokesperson for St. Barnabas Hospital said Monday that it takes four to six days for the hospital to receive coronavirus test results.

New York City Hospitals Struggle To Get Virus Testing Online Amid Patient Surge

4:22pm March 31, 2020

by Rebecca Hersher

On-site testing was delayed for weeks at a Brooklyn hospital that has been designated COVID-19 only. Rapid on-site testing can help hospitals prevent the virus from spreading inside their facilities.

Volunteers from the relief organization Samaritan's Purse set up an emergency field hospital in New York's Central Park on Monday.

Central Park And Home Of Tennis' US Open To House Hospital Beds For New York

10:29pm March 30, 2020

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The East Meadow in Central Park and a training facility at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Queens are scheduled to become makeshift hospitals while regular facilities are strained by COVID-19.

Workers inside a warehouse in Columbus, Ohio, prepare Battelle's decontamination units for deployment.

National

Technology To Clean And Reuse PPE Is Being Deployed To Hotspot Hospitals

4:43pm March 30, 2020

by Paige Pfleger

An Ohio-based research group just got expedited FDA approval of its PPE decontamination system after pleas to the White House from the governor. The system cleans up to 80,000 pieces of PPE at a time.

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A man cycles along Jackson Square in New Orleans on Thursday. The city has become an epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic gripping the United States.

New Orleans Officials Point To Increasing Spread Of COVID-19 Cases

11:33am March 27, 2020

by Patrick Madden

Officials fear that the growing number of COVID-19 cases could exceed the city's hospital capacity. As of noon Thursday, New Orleans had seen 11.8 deaths per 100,000 residents.

A screen displaying messages concerning COVID-19 is seen in a sparsely populated Times Square in New York City on Friday. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered all nonessential businesses to close by Sunday.

Health & Safety

Coronavirus Deaths Spike Abroad As New York City Becomes U.S. Virus Epicenter

6:35pm March 21, 2020

by Lynsey Jeffery

The global death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 12,000 Saturday as New York City reported thousands of new cases over the past week. Cases in that city now make up about a third of all cases in the U.S.

A woman with a face mask rides on the subway on March 17, 2020, in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City. Advocates in the city are reaching out to immigrant communities which face challenges due to the coronavirus epidemic.

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Coronavirus Epidemic Brings Special Challenges For Immigrants In Urban Areas

5:01am March 18, 2020

by Alexandra Starr

Urban immigrant communities could be particularly vulnerable to contracting COVID-19. In New York City, public health workers are making extra efforts to reach the immigrant population.

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