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New York City officials are considering a plan that would forcibly quarantine residents diagnosed with COVID-19 who refused to voluntarily self-isolate, according to a public hearing first reported Gothamist.City officials are also preparing 1,200 hotel rooms to be made available for people who cannot isolate themselves in their own homes.Mitchell…

Image: Drew Angerer/Getty Images By Mark Kaufman2020-05-17 22:15:57 UTC A federal judge denied Martin Shkreli's request to be released from prison to do coronavirus research, the Associated Press reported Sunday. Shkreli, popularly dubbed "pharma bro" and imprisoned for seven years for fraud, asked if he could do some laboratory work…

New York City subways and buses could go to a reservation system post-pandemic to manage crowding.Everything is on the table, the agency's chief said in interview this week, acknowledging that reservations would be hard in the century-old system.In April, MTA employees told Business Insider they felt expendable as they desperately…

Photo: Constantine KanakisUpdate: We’re done! Join us at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live Q&A with Constantine Kanakis, who is here to answer your questions about all types of COVID-19 testing. Dr. Kanakis is a medical laboratory scientist with 10+ years of experience in hospital labs, and he’s now a…

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In 1976 someone shot 8mm footage of New York City and added a soundtrack to make a nice little Christmas vacation movie. It's a treat to see the kind of New York Travis Bickle drove his taxi around in. With Learnable, learning to code doesn’t have to turn your brain…

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Relocating homeless individuals put them at risk, advocates said.May 6, 2020, 9:12 PM7 min read The first deliberate shutdown of the New York City subway system in 115 years was deemed "successful" by transit officials on Wednesday, after a small army of cleaners disinfected trains, and police officers, social workers…

15 children were hospitalized in New York City with an unknown disease, according to the city's Department of Health.Symptoms of the disease were similar to toxic shock or Kawasaki disease, with inflammation of the blood vessels.In the past week, reports have been circulating about 100 children, mainly in Europe, who…