Administrators at KIPP Washington Heights Middle School told families that the school would go virtual for three days as COVID, RSV, and the flu affected staffing.
The impact of swim program cutbacks isn’t just about not having access to water in the summer. It could slow efforts to prevent drowning deaths among children of color. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports drowning death rates have dropped by 32 percent in the past decade enduring racial disparities in drowning deaths have not.
Max Bookman, 34, and his daughter, Cara, 2, of the Upper East Side, were among the first in line for the COVID-19 vaccine. Bookman has been waiting her whole life for this moment: Cara has never been to a grocery store and has never visited the city’s world-renowned museums.
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