On Richard Carranza’s last day as New York City schools chancellor, March 15, he will preside over an enterprise with 1.1 million students, most of whom haven’t been in a school building in months, some who haven’t been there at all since the initial COVID shutdown exactly a year before. But the fact that hundreds of thousands of kids are now in classrooms and that New York’s public schools have remained essentially virus-free is a success of Carranza and Mayor de Blasio.
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“I’m very hopeful about reopening high schools. I hope to, in the next few weeks, have an announcement on high schools,” Hizzoner said. “Everything is lining up.”
“Using two masks is more effective in stopping the spread of the virus. To double-mask, use a cloth face covering over a disposable mask not two disposable masks," said NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi.
The other evening, Dr. Torian Easterling, the first deputy commissioner of the city’s Department of Health and its chief equity officer, took questions at a “Covid-19 101” conversation broadcast in Spanish and English on Bronxnet TV. It was one of a citywide series of information and education sessions in communities hit hard by the pandemic. The very first question was about the vaccine.