BAYSIDE, Queens (WABC) A 104-year-old man from Queens has survived the coronavirus and returned to his home on Wednesday after spending only 11 days in the hospital.
Paul Barberio, of Bayside, was admitted to North Shore University Hospital on January 31 and was diagnosed with COVID.
Dr. Suhail Shah said Barberio needed little medical intervention and was never even close to being put on a ventilator. One of my easiest patients, Shah said.
Shah credited Barberio s survival to Barberio s genes. Being 104-years-old already proves that Barberio is a survivor.
A community refrigerator created to help people in a Queens neighborhood who are struggling with food insecurity was vandalized Friday, State Senator Jessica Ramos said. You see students, you see the unhoused community all different kinda people coming together . that s New York, Malu said. The melting pot. This is the mecca.
All day and all night, people pick up what they need and stock it with what they don t, much like similar fridges which have popped up across the city.
The last place you d expect to find one is on a block of high-priced apartments and trendy boutiques, but that s the point.
These items were packed in boxes, piled high on more than 100 shipping pallets, Katz said.
Other warehouse workers remain under investigation. We believe this to be one of the largest single seizures of counterfeit masks since the pandemic began, Katz said.
District Attorney Melinda Katz said the masks were labeled 3M and sold to hospitals to protect healthcare workers
The masks were being sold to health care workers, who believed they were purchasing and using genuine 3M masks.
Instead, the substandard masks were imported from overseas, or produced in the warehouse, and repackaged with 3M branding. 3M is aggressively fighting counterfeiting of our critical products needed by health care and front line workers during the pandemic, 3M said in a statement. We are grateful to the Queens District Attorney s Office investigation, which has resulted in getting counterfeit respirators out of circulation. 3M recommends only buying products from authorized distributors.
New York State is reporting the lowest positivity rate since late November as restaurants prepare to reopen indoor dining at 25% capacity in NYC on Friday.