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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Besides the sad deaths of a quarter-million Americans, the pandemic claimed another victim this month: the re-election of President Trump. Had the election been held in February . . .
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By John O'Connell
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11/26/20
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In a year when so much has gone awry — so many lives lost, businesses battered, jobs vanished — it strains the imagination to think what we might be thankful for, particularly as the nation enters its second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
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11/26/20
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As the coronavirus pandemic continues to linger on, some Five Towners have picked up or revisited hobbies with the extra time they have had since March,
Melanie Glick Rosen, an administrative …
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By Matthew Ferremi
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11/4/20
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Q. I’m wondering how the pandemic has affected architects and contractors. As we prepare to start our home planning, we’re concerned about whether we’ll have delays. We want to get this going before winter, if possible . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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10/30/20
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Scaring up a sweet ghoul time in Lawrence
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The children came wearing costumes of their characters or even possible future professions as there were astronauts, cats, firefighters, ghosts, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and many others.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/26/20
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Consider the number 675,000 for a moment. That’s the number of people in the United States who died during the flu pandemic of 1918-19. Could the U.S. be headed for such widespread death again?
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10/22/20
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The National Parent-Teacher Association awarded the Lawrence High School PTA with a $5,000 grant to help meet critical needs of students, families and teachers in the school community that have been …
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/21/20
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In-person instruction began again on Oct. 5 in the Hewlett-Woodmere School District. The Franklin Early Childhood Center had gotten a head start, with its pre-K to first-grade students returning on Sept. 23.
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By Matthew Ferremi
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10/14/20
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With Inwood and Lawrence currently in the orange zone of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s cluster hotspots and Cedarhurst in the yellow zone, local officials are reacting.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/9/20
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