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.
Hunt for hospital staff on Staten Island ‘is on again,’ says Borough President Oddo
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
Posted Dec 09, 2020
Borough President James Oddo is shown at Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton on April 20, 2020. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. “The chase for staffing help for Staten Island’s hospitals is on again,” said Borough President James Oddo, as Staten Island’s health care systems see a surge of coronavirus (COVID-19) hospitalizations reaching levels not seen since the spring.
As of Wednesday morning, 244 people were being treated for COVID-19 within the borough’s two hospital systems, which represented an increase of 10 since Tuesday and a rise of 69 since Dec. 1.