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COVID 19 Memorial Wall

Families of pandemic nursing home victims mark five years, demand Cuomo take accountability

By Dean Moses

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Music

Bay Ridge teen turns lockdown blues into art, premieres pandemic-inspired musical at Old Stone House

By Natalie Dahan

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Health

Doctors predict continual rise in COVID, RSV and flu in Brooklyn, urge locals to get vaxxed

By Jada Camille

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Mask mandate back at NYC public hospitals amid winter COVID surge

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Take ’em off! Top NYPD official tells businesses to demand patrons remove masks in order to enter

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Winter storm, holidays and ‘tripledemic’ add to ongoing blood shortage crisis

By Ximena Del Cerro

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AMNY

Brooklyn woman among four who admitted to defrauding thousands from city’s COVID-19 hotel isolation program

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NYC Health Department issues advisory with cases of COVID-19, RSV and the flu on the rise

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Health

New COVID-19 booster, formulated against Omicron variant, is now available: Find out where and why to get your shot

By Drew Richardson

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Health

City to take new approach to COVID-19 testing and treatment, focus on mobile sites

By Jada Camille

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Health

Mask up, Brooklyn: City health officials warn of COVID spike

By Ximena Del Cerro

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Health

Brooklyn on COVID high alert once again, with cases on the rise

By Ben Brachfeld

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AMNY

Brooklyn nurse talks working in the pandemic and running for essential workers, COVID patients in upcoming race

MTA, Port Authority maintain mask mandates, even as judge strikes down requirement for mass transit

By Ben Brachfeld

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Health

Feds end COVID care payments for uninsured, hampering pandemic response, providers say

By Ben Brachfeld

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Health

The state of the pandemic: City data shows slight rise in COVID infections

By Jessica Parks

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One Brooklyn Health residents, fellows gather for candlelit vigil to commemorate lives lost in pandemic

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Health

Founded in pandemic’s early days, mutual aid organizations still hard at work in Brooklyn

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Business

An ode to Brooklyn businesses closed by COVID: Where are they now?

By Ximena Del Cerro

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Health

Two years into COVID, cases remain low in a buoying Brooklyn

By Ben Brachfeld

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