Devastating stories that have to be told: Women of the Advance/SILive.com newsroom serve tirelessly during pandemic Updated Dec 23, 2020; It was more than nine months ago, on March 5, that we published a story on SILive.com with the headline: “Coronavirus on Staten Island? ‘Handful’ of ‘suspicious’ cases referred to state Health Dept.” It was the first time we’d written an article about the disease appearing on the borough, and it included a line that the hospitals expected a test for COVID to be available on Staten Island “any day now.” Oh, how things have changed. Keeping up with that crushing pace of change, day in and day out, is what defines the work of the women who write, photograph and record the news at the Staten Island Advance and SILive.com.