Rise in vaccinations and fall in case rates motivated updated guidance, CDC director says
From CNN s Jacqueline Howard
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky speaks during a virtual White House briefing on April 27. White House
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was motivated to update its guidance for fully vaccinated people after seeing a rise in the number of vaccinated people and a fall in the rates of Covid-19 cases, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a virtual White House briefing on Tuesday. There s increasing data that suggests that most of transmission is happening indoors rather than outdoors – less than 10% of documented transmission in many studies have occurred outdoors, Walensky said.
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Cassandra Agredo has grown the soup kitchen at St. Francis Xavier church into the multi-service agency that is Xavier Mission. As the organization’s executive director, Agredo and her team provide an array of services and opportunities to New Yorkers in need. They prefer to be called a “for-impact” instead of a “nonprofit” organization, focusing on things they can change instead of those they can’t.
Direct service work has always been a part of Agredo’s life. When she was growing up in Rhode Island, her father worked at the Department of Human Services, and once the first soup kitchen opened, her parents would bring Agredo along while they volunteered. She continued on this path and obtained a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work from Fordham University. Since then, her passion to enact positive change has shone both through her work at Xavier Mission and Hunger Free America, a national organization set to end domestic hunger, where she’s a
Conference Office Becomes COVID Vaccination Site in New York City
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April 23, 2021
Hundreds of community residents in New York City are set to receive vaccines at the Northeastern Conference office situated in Queens, NY. For three consecutive days (April 21-23) the regional church headquarters will host the New York City Department of Health and Hospitals in administering the Moderna vaccine to local residents seeking immunization against the COVID-19 virus. Recipients will require a second dose which will also be administered at the Conference office in the succeeding weeks. Before leaving the premises each guest receives a gift bag with sanitizer, five masks, a pen, and a pamphlet explaining the ACS mission.
“As soon as the lockdown last April started, our online business, which had been basically an afterthought, exploded,” says Pete Potenzini, director of marketing at Lion’s Den, an Ohio-based purveyor of adult novelties with retail locations in nearly two dozen states.
“I feel like we became part of an entertainment dollar option,” he adds, noting that disposable income from singles and couples alike cash that might’ve otherwise been spent at restaurants and movie theaters was instead funneled into lingerie, vibrators and more.
This year marks the Lion’s Den’s 50th anniversary, and while pandemic precautions have prevented the adults-only chain from holding the milestone celebration it originally intended, the company does have tentative plans to host a scaled-down live event by summer’s end in its hometown of Columbus.
Twice as many black and Hispanic New Yorkers caught coronavirus last spring compared to white people and a QUARTER of city residents were infected, antibody study reveals
Researchers looked at coronavirus antibody levels among New York City residents between May 13, 2020 and July 21, 2020
About 35% of Hispanic New Yorkers and 33% of black New Yorkers tested positive for antibodies
Comparatively, just 16% of white residents had antibodies, meaning rates among minorities were more than twice as high
Frontline jobs with mostly minority employees, such as nursing care facilities and home health care service, were the sectors with the highest antibody rates
New York City data show 44% of white residents have received at least one vaccine dose compared to 26% of blacks and 31% of Hispanics