Two more people have died from the H1N1 flu in New York City, bringing the city’s toll to seven from the new virus that has infected thousands of people worldwide, health department officials said on Wednesday. The New York City Health Department would provide no details, but did say the victims were in the 25-64 [...]
City officials have decided to close six more schools because of a high number of students reporting flu-like symptoms. Four of the schools are in East Harlem. They include P.S. 83, which shares its space with P.S. 182, and P.S. 155, which includes P169, a school for children with disabilities. The two remaining schools are [...]
Health officials say New York has 96 new cases of swine flu, bringing the total confirmed to 462. State Health Commissioner Dr. Richard Daines says the total outside New York City rose to 132 in 19 counties, with one case each in Clinton and Onondaga counties, and two cases each in Dutchess and Suffolk. New [...]
Two more New Yorkers have died with confirmed cases of swine flu, the city’s health commissioner said on Tuesday, bringing the city’s total number of deaths related to the virus to four. Emergency room visits and hospitalizations also continued to rise. The commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, said the two latest casualties, a 41-year-old woman [...]
More than two dozen schools closed as a precaution because of the H1N1 virus have reopened today. Among those schools is I.S. 238 in Hollis, Queens, where Assistant Principal Mitchell Wiener was the first person in the city to die from the virus. I.S. 238 was the only school in the recent spate of closings [...]
Four more private schools closed yesterday, two public schools and a charter school will shut today, hundreds of inmates were quarantined, and hospital emergency rooms were flooded as near-panic over swine flu swept through the Big Apple. Hundreds of students from schools that remained open went home with flu symptoms or were pulled out by [...]
The list of city schools closed because of the H1N1 flu outbreak has grown to 16 today, in the wake of the city’s first H1N1-related fatality. Flu-Related School Closings See NY1′s full list of the city’s 14 flu-related school closings. As of Monday afternoon, there are 12 schools in Queens, one school in Brooklyn and [...]
Gov. David Paterson wants to make health care more affordable and accessible by requiring health insurers to get state approval before raising premiums. The proposal, now before the Legislature, would require companies to seek approval for increases through state Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo. Currently the state’s “file and use” system gives insurance companies broad discretion [...]
An assistant principal was hospitalized in critical condition and three New York City public schools shut in a renewed outbreak of swine flu that first sickened hundreds of residents about three weeks ago. “Unusually high levels” of flu-like illness in the schools triggered the closures, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said last evening at a City Hall [...]
Health officials say New York state has 12 more cases of swine flu, bringing the total confirmed to 208. Health Commissioner Doctor Richard Daines says the latest cases include six inside New York city, where the number of confirmed cases stands at 164, and six outside the city, including four in Westchester county. The cases [...]
