John Kasich, the former Ohio governor who was roundly defeated in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries by Donald Trump, was doing that thing on March 25 that so many conservative politicians do . . .
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4/1/21
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I applaud the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent guidance update recommending that people who are fully vaccinated not be confined to quarantine after exposure to a case of Covid-19.
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By Lawrence E. Eisenstein
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2/25/21
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The second of two stories examining student mental health.
When the 2019-20 school year ended last June amid a still-spreading coronavirus pandemic, school counselors were well aware that the previous four months had been unlike any that schoolchildren — or their parents — had ever experienced.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/24/21
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As the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out across the globe, some 200 residents and staff at the Five Towns Premier Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, in Woodmere, received their first dose of the two-dose Pfizer treatment on Monday, the first day the vaccines were made available to the nation’s nursing homes.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/23/20
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At times, reporting on the coronavirus pandemic has been reduced to numbers — the number of cases, positivity rates, the number of deaths. At hospitals, including St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, in Far Rockaway, there are many people behind those numbers, from the administrators who run the facility to the doctors and nurses who treat patients.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/2/20
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With the Covid-19 infection rate creeping up above 3 percent in parts of New York state, including Long Island, Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week issued two executive orders. The first . . .
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11/19/20
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St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway is the recipient of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus and Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement awards, and was recognized for high performance in heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by US News & World Report.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/14/20
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Let us begin by wishing President Trump and those around him well. He, First Lady Melania Trump and several top federal officials and campaign workers were diagnosed last week with the coronavirus.
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10/8/20
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A dispute at a private beach club has spilled into the public court system as longtime member of the Atlantic Beach Club Thomas Liotti, who is also a lawyer, has brought a lawsuit against the club asking for a temporary receiver be appointed because the current Board of Directors were not elected legally based on New York state’s not-for-profit corporation law.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/23/20
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Hundreds of thousands of students will start school across Long Island next week amid the worst disease outbreak in the United States since 1918. It is a time of fear and anxiety for many parents . . .
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9/5/20
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