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“We are honored to partner with Governor Cuomo and the State of New York to create the new Public Health Corps. As a leading research university, Cornell looks forward to training those who will do the critical work of ensuring the fair and effective distribution of the vaccine to the people of New York.”
Media:
Lindsey Hadlock
lmh267@cornell.edu
607-269-6911
Related Tip Sheet:
Cornell partners with NYS to create new Public Health Corps (01/11/21)
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“Cuomo is right that we need to make sure the vaccines are being given as quickly as possible and that sites are not allowed to stockpile. However, I agree with those who are critical of Cuomo’s plan for rigid rules and disqualifying sites, especially hospitals, from getting future distributions. Expanding the number of distribution sites and incentivizing rapid use of stocks is a better way to go. Regardless of who gets immunized when, we need to remember that we are in this for the long haul and everyone needs to continue to wear masks and physical distance.”
Media:
Lindsey Hadlock
lmh267@cornell.edu
607-269-6911
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“Today, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and his Department of Education announced that they were, in the interest of promoting the desegregation of hundreds of New York City’s selective middle and high schools, planning to enact a number of major changes to the way students are admitted. If enacted, these changes would constitute the most significant, systemic steps toward integrating our nation’s largest and most segregated school system."
Media:
Lindsey Hadlock
lmh267@cornell.edu
607-269-6911
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“This is a welcome development, and if it becomes law, it promises to accelerate a larger national trend against solitary confinement. But the devil is in the details, and even if the bill passes, we have to make sure jails don’t continue the practice under some other name. Change in name only is no change at all.”
Media:
Lindsey Hadlock
lmh267@cornell.edu
607-269-6911
Related Tip Sheet:
‘The devil is in the details’ for NYC solitary confinement ban (12/10/20)
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“Electric heaters emit no pollutants onsite compared to natural gas and propane heaters. However, a majority of the electricity consumed in New York City is generated from fossil fuels (e.g., natural gas and oil). Accounting for the conversion efficiency in power generation makes electric heating actually more polluting in terms of greenhouse gas emissions than the gas and propane options. We will need to bring much more renewable electricity to New York City to make heating sustainable.”
Media:
Lindsey Hadlock
lmh267@cornell.edu
607-269-6911
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Lindsey Hadlock
lmh267@cornell.edu
607-269-6911
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“We are at a pivotal moment in NYC's fight against coronavirus. In the past several weeks we've seen infection rates climb in parts of Brooklyn and Queens. This threatens the hard-won gains of last spring and summer. The Mayor and the Governor recently agreed to close all schools in these neighborhoods. This was a wise decision as transmission within crowded schools will happen, even with the best of intentions. We know that these interventions work to stop the spread of the virus. The question is did we implement them too late?”
Media:
Lindsey Hadlock
lmh267@cornell.edu
607-269-6911
Related Tip Sheet:
NYC hotspot interventions ‘wise’ — but are they too late? (10/06/20)
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"It is easy to yell 'reopen, reopen' from the sidelines, but what every school district in America needs are additional financial resources to purchase safety equipment; to convince bus drivers, chefs and teachers that a very serious safety first regimen is occurring in their schools; to hire more paraprofessionals to assist our administrators in monitoring and ensuring school safety; and to create a continuum of schooling that will allow 40-50 million parents go back to work in one piece. Without federal money, even Mayor de Blasio’s modest effort to reopen the schools will have much difficulty.”
Media:
Lindsey Hadlock
lmh267@cornell.edu
607-269-6911
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“Mayor de Blasio and his superintendent of schools need to immediately make clear how they plan to support the low-income Black and Latinx children and their families who will be greatly impacted by this news, as their children make up a majority of the students educated in the school system.”
Media:
Lindsey Hadlock
lmh267@cornell.edu
607-269-6911
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“Public health leaders want to make sure that everyone who may have been exposed to COVID-19 knows where to get tested and gets tested. They also want people to know how the virus is spreading in communities and who is most at risk for more severe illness. This data informs how and when we re-open, and how to keep more people safe; contact tracers make that happen.”
Media:
Lindsey Hadlock
lmh267@cornell.edu
607-269-6911
Related Tip Sheet:
Contact tracing a ‘tried-and-true tool’ for public health (05/11/20)
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