CDC guidance for people who have been fully vaccinated expected later this week
From CNN s John Bonifield
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will release guidance for people who have been fully vaccinated when it is finalized later this week, a CDC official tells CNN.
The official confirmed the broad themes contained in the guidance, which were first reported by Politico.
The guidance is reported to include a recommendation that fully vaccinated people limit their social interactions to small home gatherings with other fully vaccinated people. It reportedly will also recommend that fully vaccinated people continue to wear masks in public and practice social distancing. Additionally, it reportedly will include scenarios for Americans to consider when making plans, including travel.
arrow City Comptroller Scott Stringer speaking in October at a press conference in front of a NYCHA housing development. City Comptroller Scott Stringer / Flickr
As city comptroller, Scott Stringer frequently delivered harsh condemnations of Mayor Bill de Blasio s housing policies. He has accused de Blasio of deepening the affordable housing crisis by failing to create sufficient units for very low-income New Yorkers, labeled his rezonings as developer giveaways, and blamed him for mismanaging the public housing system.
Now, as one of the top mayoral candidates, Stringer has laid out a detailed 27-point compendium of progressive housing goals that amount to a rebuttal of the former administration s approach.
Stringer, who’s running for mayor, included the tax-the-rich call in his annual response to the mayor’s preliminary spending plan, which aims to close a $5.5 billion budget gap.
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It’s no secret that in New York City, like much of the country, Black and Latino people suffer from worse health outcomes than white people, or that women are less likely to participate in the labor force than men. These kinds of gaps in equitable access to health care, education, employment and more have only become more apparent and pronounced during the coronavirus pandemic.
Now, a new city resource promises to make it easier than ever to observe just how pervasive some of those gaps are, with the eventual goal of eradicating those disparities. On Tuesday, the city launched EquityNYC, a website that pulls together data on social equity outcomes – in areas including health, education and economic security – with the data broken down by factors such as race, gender and income.
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The question of whether a public review process conducted by Zoom is sufficient to approve a sweeping rezoning plan is a matter of no small legal concern in New York City. February 24, 2021, 5am PST | James Brasuell |
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The stakes in the lawsuit are substantial. The new zoning would cover 80 blocks between Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, and it would pave the way for 8,200 new apartments, 700,000 square feet of commercial space and 251,000 square feet of community facilities on land that is now largely zoned for industrial uses, according to Baird-Remba. The plan had been stuck in COVID limbo for the first half of 2020.