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Masks Help Stop the Spread of Coronavirus – the Science is Simple and I’m one of 100 experts urging governors to require public mask-wearing

Masks Help Stop the Spread of Coronavirus – the Science is Simple and I’m one of 100 experts urging governors to require public mask-wearing by Jeremy Howard, University of San Francisco I’m a data scientist at the University of San Francisco and teach courses online in machine learning for fast.ai. In late March, I decided…

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‘She Has to be Counted’: A Woman’s Life and Death in The Bronx

Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for THE CITY’s daily morning newsletter. This story was co-published with the PBS series FRONTLINE. Alpha Crawford started feeling sick at the end of March. She had a fever and pneumonia. As the coronavirus spread in New York, visitors were banned from entering her nursing home…

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Bronx Youth Face Worst Economic Prospects in the Country

Bronx youth already faced an uphill battle economically in The Bronx but now with the coronavirus pandemic financially ravaging the borough things have been made far worse. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the borough’s 15th congressional district where the impact doesn’t just hurt the teens but also their families that they struggle…

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