A NY Times story on Tuesday profiled what has turned into an incredible Kiddush Hashem: Plasma donations by Orthodox Jews. The NY Times headline reads: Hasidic Jews, Hit Hard by the Outbreak, Flock to Donate Plasma. But the Daily Mail UK headline said it better: New York Orthodox Jews make up HALF of all US plasma donors volunteering blood to help treat COVID-19 patients as the community turns ‘tragedy into a superpower’. YWN had a story two weeks ago about the thousands of Orthodox Jews that lined up in just a few hours notice in Flatbush, Boro Park and Baltimore to donate plasma. YWN also had an article about the 1,000 Orthodox Jews who were tested in Lakewood.

New York City is reporting more cases of a rare pediatric syndrome possibly linked to the coronavirus. Meanwhile, data released Tuesday shows that nine out of 10 people arrested for coronavirus-related offenses in New York City have been black or Hispanic. Here are the latest coronavirus-related developments in New York: ______ INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME AFFECTING CHILDREN A total of 52 children in New York City have been diagnosed with an inflammatory syndrome possibly linked to COVID-19 and another 10 cases are pending, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. Of those 62 confirmed or possible cases, 25 have tested positive for the coronavirus and another 22 had antibodies for the virus, de Blasio said. One child has died.

A federal appeals court should let New York’s Democratic presidential primary proceed on June 23 over the objections of the state, a lawyer for delegates said Monday. Attorney Jeffrey Kurzon filed written arguments with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which will hear the case Friday as lawyers for the state seek to overturn a lower-court decision that concluded the cancellation of the presidential primary was unconstitutional. “To take the extraordinary action of cancelling an election, no doubt an election now in progress, would cause extreme harm to the belief in democracy in our country and that we are a republic,” Kurzon wrote. Last week, U.S.

Dear Members: We are pleased to announce that we anticipate resuming normal operations as of Friday May 15, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. An important part of this decision has always been predicated upon having enough members able to respond to calls on a consistent basis, in a safe manner. In order to make the resumption viable, we must ensure that there is sufficient coverage on a day-to-day basis, in an equitable manner. Operational Coordinators have been working on a shift-based schedule of coverage. They will be in touch with all responders in the next two days to complete such a schedule.

Since the first line connected Lower Manhattan to Harlem in 1904, New York’s subway has never ceased running. There were brief blips of interruption after 9/11 and in the last decade for hurricanes and blizzards, but for more than 115 years the rumbling on the rails has kept the click-clack heartbeat of New York. A second, tunneled city that, like the skyward metropolis above, never sleeps. Last week, for the first time, the trains stopped running in a planned shutdown. Between the hours of 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., the subways and New York’s 472 stations began closing for a nightly cleaning to disinfect trains.

Mayor Deblasio condemned the anti-Semitic attack against Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg last night, but made no mention of the Tweets he fired off last week which named the entire Hasidic community by name. A tweet by NYC COuncilman Kalman Yeger mentioned the Mayor’s condemnation and wrote “Gee. I wonder what rhetoric could have possibly led to THIS.” At the Monday morning press conference, Deblasio said the following: “I want to talk about an incident that happened last night and this is something that we’ve seen in the context of this whole painful crisis. Remember, there were too many times, way too many times over the last 10 weeks when I’ve had to talk to you about incidents of bias directed at Asian Americans in the context of the coronavirus crisis.

New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus may be thousands of fatalities worse than the tally kept by the city and state, according to an analysis released Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between March 11 and May 2, about 24,000 more people died in the city than researchers would ordinarily expect during that time period, the report said. That’s about 5,300 more deaths than were blamed on the coronavirus in official tallies during those weeks. Some of those excess fatalities could be COVID-19 deaths that went uncounted because a person died at home, or without medical providers realizing they were infected, the researchers at New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state is currently investigating more than 90 cases of “Covid-related diseases” in young children. “We have 93 cases we’re investigating of young children that have Covid-related diseases,” the governor said during his daily coronavirus press briefing Monday. Cuomo on Sunday said New York state was investigating 85 cases of a coronavirus-related illness that is afflicting children across the state. So far, three young New Yorkers have died from an illness that may be related to Covid-19 include a teenager in Suffolk County, as well as a 7-year-old in Westchester County and a 5-year-old in New York City, according to the governor’s office.

As New York City plans its reopening in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Met Council CEO David G. Greenfield has been named to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s non-profit and social service task force charged with helping the city map the road to recovery. Greenfield will join other city-wide leaders on the Non-Profit and Social Services Sector Advisory Council to offer critical guidance to the Mayor as he reopens New York City and restarts its economy. “It is an honor to join distinguished nonprofit leaders on the task force to reopen New York City,” said Greenfield. “The reality is that during this crisis New Yorkers are even more reliant on the life-saving work that nonprofits and social service organizations do every day.

Several regions of upstate New York that have shown progress in taming the coronavirus outbreak are ready to gradually restart economic activity by the end of the week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday. Cuomo shut down the entire state March 22 as the New York City area emerged as a global pandemic hot spot, but the outbreak has been less severe in the state’s smaller cities and rural areas. He said three upstate regions have met all criteria for opening some business activity after May 15: the Southern Tier, Mohawk Valley and the Finger Lakes. Other upstate regions are making and could follow soon after. The reopening regions still need to work out logistics, such as creating regional “control rooms” to monitor the effects of the reopening.