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Tami Roncskevitz has attended two Zoom memorials for her daughter, Sarah, a 32-year-old emergency room social worker who died of COVID-19 on May 30. But she longs to gather Sarah’s friends and family in one place so they can embrace and mourn together.
“It just isn’t the same,” said Roncskevitz. “You feel like your grieving is not complete.”
With more than 529,000 in the nation lost to the coronavirus, the United States has millions of people like Roncskevitz whose grief is compounded because families which, in her case, includes Sarah’s fiance and two young children have been unable to publicly celebrate the lost lives with in-person memorials.
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Epidemiologists – like oncologists and climate scientists – hate to be proven right. A year ago this week, the communications rush began from epidemiologists in academia to the public and to local governments about the imminent dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the face of a weak federal response.
St. Patrick’s Day parades were canceled with days to spare. Hospitals were turning suspected positive cases away because of a lack of tests. Epidemiologistspredictedthat hundreds of thousands Americans would die over the following year, with the upper boundaries above a million. This was our country’s biggest challenge since 1941, and we did not meet it.
NYC Care reaches enrollment milestone, but unmet chronic needs remain
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NYC Care, the city s health-access program for the uninsured, has reached a milestone of 50,000 enrollees, it announced Tuesday.
The pandemic has accelerated membership, and the program has learned that its members have a higher prevalence of chronic conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension, than the general public, said Marielle Kress, executive director. Many of these patients are receiving care for their chronic illness for the first time through NYC Care, Kress said.