NYC doctors reflect on 1 year of COVID-19 pandemic
As a mass vaccination effort is underway for the world to seek a return to normal, two doctors who worked the front lines last March are reflecting on the year.
9/11 tribute in NYC will once again include live reading of names
Commemorations will also again include the Tribute in Light, the art installation consisting of two beams of light evoking the twin towers destroyed in the attack.
Watch the newscast from the night the world changed - March 11, 2020
On March 11, 2020, everything changed. It was the date that former President Trump suspended travel from 26 European countries. New York City became a ghost town, with many of the streets seemingly empty. The NBA had also decided to suspend its season after a player tested positive for COVID-19. That player was Utah Jazz Center Rudy Gobert. He has since recovered. The NYC St. Patrick s Day Parade in 2020 was also announced at postponed on March 11, 2020.
NEW JERSEY (WABC) A group dubbed the Emerson Angels are using their free time to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments for teachers in their local New Jersey school district.
Booking appointments has been difficult for many people who are eligible for myriad reasons from low supply to a lack of access to a computer.
The Emerson Angels started after Jennifer Volsin helped her grandmother, Ruth, land a slot and she figured others were struggling. I put a post on Facebook and I offered I could help and the requests came through and still are, never ended, Volsin said.
Kate Stutzelsaw that post and thought of all 190 employees in the Emerson school district who are eligible, her children are in elementary school.