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Southern states lag behind much of US in administering virus vaccine, CDC says. Why?
As the United States rolls out COVID-19 vaccines, some Southern states are lagging behind. As of Friday, six states in the Southeast had among the nation’s lowest rates of vaccine doses administered, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia have all given out fewer than 3,000 doses of the vaccine per 100,000 residents, data show. Those rates are some of the lowest in the country. States with the highest rates include Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota and West Virginia, where more than 6,000 doses ha...
Miami Herald
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New York’s COVID-19 death rate falls slightly, but state still wrestling with ‘limited supply’ of vaccines, Cuomo says
NEW YORK — New York state’s COVID-19 positivity rate and deaths fell slightly Friday as officials continue to wrestle with a “limited supply” of vaccine and a more contagious variant of the virus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. In a Saturday statement on the latest data, Cuomo said positivity rate from testing was 5.77%, down from Thursday’s 6.14%, adding 157 people died, compared with Thursday’s figure of 183 deaths. An additional case of the UK variant also was identified Friday, bringing the total of known cases in the state to 17. “New York is fighting to beat back COVID as we distribute the limi...
New York Daily News
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Driver of NYC bus that plunged onto expressway refused to take drug tests after wreck
NEW YORK – The veteran driver of a tandem bus that plunged 50 feet from an overpass onto the Cross Bronx Expressway refused to take drug and alcohol tests at a hospital after the harrowing late-night wreck, officials said Friday. “This is obviously troubling,” said Metropolitan Transportation Authority Safety & Security Officer Patrick Warren at a news conference about the 11:10 p.m. Thursday crash where the bus tumbled after tearing through a metal gate while making a left turn onto the Bronx overpass. Interim New York City Transit President Sarah Feinberg agreed, calling the driver’s decisio...
New York Daily News
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Florida adds 13,720 new coronavirus cases as positivity dips
MIAMI — Florida’s Department of Health on Thursday confirmed 13,720 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state’s known total to 1,531,720. Also, 217 new resident deaths were announced, bringing the state’s resident death toll from the novel coronavirus to 23,613. No new nonresident deaths were announced, leaving the nonresident toll at 363. The Sunshine State has the fourth-highest death toll in the country, after New York, Texas, and California, according to The New York Times database of U.S. cases. According to the state’s Thursday COVID-19 vaccine report, 774,468 people have been vac...
Miami Herald
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Driver of NYC bus that plunged onto expressway refused to take drug tests after wreck
NEW YORK – ‘Extremely troubling’: By THOMAS TRACY, MORGAN CHITTUM, ELIZABETH KEOGH and LARRY MCSHANE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 5/8 JAN 15, 2021 AT 6:17 PM A bus in New York City which careened off a road in the Bronx neighborhood of New York is left dangling from an overpass Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, after a crash late Thursday that left the driver in serious condition, police said. A bus in New York City which careened off a road in the Bronx neighborhood of New York is left dangling from an overpass Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, after a crash late Thursday that left the driver in serious condition, police s...
New York Daily News
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Balancing Act: Maybe America needs group therapy? Christie Tate’s memoir, ‘Group,’ reveals the messy process of facing and healing our traumas
Maybe America needs group therapy. I sat down to read Christie Tate’s memoir, “Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life,” as a pandemic raged and our nation’s capital was reeling from a violent attack and our president faced a second impeachment and our collective nerves felt collectively shot. I finished it in a day. The book is largely devoid of politics. Tate, a Chicago lawyer, started writing it in 2015, and it chronicles events from a decade prior to that. None of today’s specific frustrations or events are present on its pages. But it plumbs the human psyche — Tat...
Chicago Tribune
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U.S. Rep. Espaillat tests positive for COVID-19
U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat tested positive for COVID-19 after delivering a speech Wednesday on the House floor in support of President Trump’s impeachment. The New York Democrat revealed his diagnosis in a tweet Thursday and said he’s “quarantining at home.” “I will continue my duties representing New York’s 13th congressional district remotely until I have received clearance from my doctor,” the 66-year-old congressman wrote. “I encourage all residents to follow public health guidelines for the safety of our #NY13 community.” Like most members of Congress, Espaillat has received the coronavi...
New York Daily News
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Dollar General will pay employees to get COVID-19 vaccine
Dollar General won’t make its employees choose between a paycheck and a COVID-19 vaccine. Hourly employees will receive pay for four hours of work after they get both doses of the vaccine, removing barriers like travel time, mileage and child care needs, the national chain announced Wednesday. Salaried workers will receive “additional store labor hours to accommodate their time away from the store.” “We want to be on the forefront of facilitating our employees’ ability to receive the COVID-19 vaccine if they so choose — and we encourage all of our team to receive the vaccine when it’s availabl...
New York Daily News
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COVID-19 vaccines have gone mostly to white Philadelphians. Here's what the city is doing to change that
PHILADELPHIA — As the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine ramps up across the country, Philadelphia data show that most of those vaccinated in the city are white, a trend reflected statewide. The vaccine is still largely available only to health-care workers and residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities; paramedics and EMTs in Philadelphia started receiving their first doses two weeks ago. Philadelphia officials said Wednesday that of the 28,476 people who have been immunized at city health facilities, 43% were white, 12% were Black, 10% were Asian American, and 10% reported th...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Florida adds nearly 14,000 COVID-19 cases and 169 resident deaths as positivity rate dips
MIAMI — Florida’s Department of Health on Wednesday confirmed 13,990 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state’s known total to a new milestone: 1,517,472. Also, 169 new resident deaths were announced, bringing the state’s resident death toll from the novel coronavirus to 23,396. Five new nonresident deaths were also announced, bringing the nonresident toll to 363. The Sunshine State has the fourth-highest death toll in the country, after New York, Texas and California, according to The New York Times database of U.S. cases. According to the state’s Wednesday COVID-19 vaccine report, 70...
Miami Herald
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