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Antibody rates among Black and Hispanic New Yorkers are double those of others, new estimates show.
At a coronavirus testing site in Harlem last year.Credit.Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
April 21, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
New York City health officials estimate that nearly a quarter of adult New Yorkers were infected with the coronavirus during the catastrophic wave of last spring, and that the toll was even higher among Black and Hispanic residents.
The estimates, based on antibody test results for more than 45,000 city residents last year, suggest that Black and Hispanic New Yorkers were twice as likely as white New Yorkers to have had antibodies to the coronavirus evidence of prior infection.
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Peaceful marches across the city Tuesday night
convicted of murdering George Floyd in Minneapolis last year. New York elected officials
The mass protests that swept the city after Floyd’s killing last year have had repercussions for New York. The state repealed the law that had long kept police disciplinary records secret, and those records, after months of litigation, are now
finally becoming public. The city voted to make it a crime for cops to use a chokehold or pin someone s neck under their knee, among a raft of other legislation. Most recently, the city
Is it time to level-up and buy a N95 mask?
With Irfan Hafiz MD
After a long hard year of dealing with COVID-19, most people are, quite frankly, sick of it. And who could blame them? With vaccines being distributed more and more widely, and numbers on a downswing, it can be easy to let your guard down.
But even as we approach the finish line, it is important to remember that we aren’t there yet. In fact, officials warn that we might be in store for a 4th wave of COVID-19 infections. More disconcerting? New variants of the virus keep emerging, some of which doctors don’t yet fully understand.
Abstract
Many countries across the globe utilized medical and non-medical facemasks as non-pharmaceutical intervention for reducing the transmission and infectivity of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Although, scientific evidence supporting facemasks’ efficacy is lacking, adverse physiological, psychological and health effects are established. Is has been hypothesized that facemasks have compromised safety and efficacy profile and should be avoided from use. The current article comprehensively summarizes scientific evidences with respect to wearing facemasks in the COVID-19 era, providing prosper information for public health and decisions making.
Keywords:Physiology, Psychology, Health, SARS-CoV-2, Safety, Efficacy
Introduction
Facemasks are part of non-pharmaceutical interventions providing some breathing barrier to the mouth and nose that have been utilized for reducing the transmission of respiratory pathogens[1]. Facemasks can be medical and non-medical, where two typ