‘Gasping for air’: How Staten Island’s air pollution served as dangerous antecedent to COVID-19 outbreak
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
Posted Mar 01, 2021
Cheryl Marks, a St. George resident, was diagnosed with hypertension and requires a 24-hour IV to keep her lungs healthy. (Staten Island Advance/Joseph Ostapiuk)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Staten Island’s air pollution is never an afterthought for Cheryl Marks.
One of the nearly 5 million people diagnosed with hypertension in New York, Marks’ lungs are under constant stress, placing pressure on her heart. Three years ago, her doctors made the decision to put her on a 24-hour IV to pump medicine directly into her lungs.
New forms of coronavirus emerge in U.S.: Do they present increased risk?
Updated Feb 28, 2021;
Posted Feb 28, 2021
There’s some concern that additional mutations to the coronavirus could potentially reduce the efficacy of existing vaccines. (Staten Island Advance/Joseph Ostapiuk)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. The discovery of seven mutated forms of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that appear to have originated in the United States could signal that the pandemic’s finish line is still further out than we initially hoped.
Earlier this month, a pre-print study showed that the seven mutated forms of the virus, which were first detected in late 2020, all carried the same genetic mutation and have been recorded in multiple states in the United States.