Watch Hot Zone: Big improvement in COVID hospitalizations on Staten Island
Updated 8:30 AM;
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Staten Island University Hospital on Friday reported that less than 100 people were being treated at the facility for COVID-19.
Hospital officials said that the improving numbers of hospitalizations meant that they could look to close the overflow COVID treatment site that had been placed at South Beach Psychiatric Center.
It was also reported that 12 people who had been fully vaccinated in the borough had later tested positive for the virus. That’s out of more than 100,000 people here who have been fully vaccinated.
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Death, kindness, controversy and hope for 2021
Updated on Dec 28, 2020;
Published on Dec 28, 2020
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. There was an incessant sound of sirens as emergency calls mounted in the spring.
Solemn silence during funerals for those for whom they were permitted.
In the approximately 300 days since the coronavirus (COVID-19) first hit Staten Island, our lives were drastically changed, perhaps forever.
Yet as 2020 ends, the vaccine’s arrival sparked hope for the future.
What follows is a look at how the virus grew from a single confirmed case to exact a staggering toll on Staten Island the last 10 months: