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arrow A healthcare professional cries in front of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, a safety-net hospital in Brooklyn, April 7, 2021. Vanessa Carvalho/Shutterstock When COVID-19 swept through the Rockaway peninsula last spring, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital was alone to weather the storm. Those who live nearby suffer disproportionately from conditions like diabetes, obesity, and hypertension that make people more vulnerable to severe cases of COVID-19, and St. John’s has been the sole medical center serving the isolated beach community since Peninsula Hospital closed in 2012. ...

New York begins vaccinating health care workers POLITICO 12/16/2020 © AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool A nurse is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. New York, once the national epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, began its mass vaccination program on Monday, starting with health care workers. More than nine months after the state reported its first case of Covid-19, Sandra Lindsay, director of patient care service for critical care at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, became the first New Yorker — and reportedly the first American — to receive the first shot...