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UPDATE 2-Restaurant dining to resume in New York City on Valentine's Day


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NEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) - New York City’s famed restaurant scene will re-open for indoor dining on Valentine’s Day, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday, the latest announcement by a U.S. state to ease public health restrictions as a deadly surge of COVID-19 begins to abate.
The flattening of hospitalization rates has led several states to loosen public health restrictions, even as officials caution that cases could surge again, and highly contagious strains of the virus from other countries appear in the United States.
“We were expecting this surge, and we handled it and we’re on the other side of it,” Cuomo said at a briefing to announce the restaurant openings. ....

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Black D.C. Residents Want The COVID-19 Vaccine. But The Barriers To Access Are Many


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Dr. Jacqueline Delmont, Chief Medical Officer at Somos, gives Helen Washington, 76, the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site at St. Luke s Episcopal Church in the Bronx.
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The center of D.C. s first documented outbreak of the coronavirus last spring was a church in Georgetown, in wealthy and majority-white Ward 2. But once the virus started spreading rapidly across the city, its devastating effects fell hardest on Black and Latino residents. Ward 8, which is 92% Black, has seen the highest per-capita death rate from the virus in the District. And citywide, 74% of residents who have died from the coronavirus are Black, even though Black people make up 46% of the city s population. ....

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