The New York City Department of Health issued updated guidance Thursday on face coverings, which experts call one of the most critical tools to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Sweet video captures a baby giggling and dancing after hearing music for the first time, thanks to cochlear implants. It means a lot to me, especially this year because of the crazy pandemic, congregant Miguele Dayda said.
At St. Patrick s Cathedral in Midtown, Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan celebrated Mass at noon to mark the beginning of Lent, the 40-day period of Increased prayer, penitence, fasting, and acts of charity in preparation for Easter on April 4.
Dolan began the day by helping to distribute food at 7 a.m. at the St. Francis of Assisi Breadline, outside St. Francis of Assisi Church. Ashes were being distributed at St. Patrick s following Mass at 7 a.m., noon and 5:30 p.m., and according to the Archdiocese of New York, it was being done respectfully following social distance guidelines and with a spritz of hand sanitizer between blessings.
You are not alone, Zibby Owens said. It s going to be OK!
We first met Owens back in 2019 and learned how her podcast, Moms Don t Have Time to Read Books, was paying off for other readers and writers.
When my original report aired on Taxi TV, a couple of executives from Skyhorse Publishing saw the story in the back of a cab and got in touch with her to put together a book. And now, the result is: Moms Don t Have Time To, A Quarantine Anthology.
It s the culmination of her experiences during the pandemic, and what for so many is a state of flux.
Those neighborhoods with low vaccination rates also tend to have higher rates of infection.
Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city is opening more vaccination sites in these neighborhoods to try to change that. We re going to be doing a lot of grassroots outreach to draw people from Brownsville and East New York to this center right in their community, to get the help that they need and deserve, the mayor said. And grassroots outreach, grassroots leadership, is going to be key to getting this done.
The city also updated its vaccine scheduler in 10 different languages. You can visit nyc.gov/vax4nyc to make an appointment in New York City.