The city is looking to hire 1,000 contact tracers immediately -- particularly people with experience in the healthcare field. These contact tracers will interview people who are positive, identify others who may have been exposed, and follow-up with those people in turn to be tested. Hiring will be done through the Fund for Public Health. Please visit FPHnyc.org for more information, or email: covid-19jobs@fphync.org.
BMental health reporter and editor, Zahra Barnes, has compiled a list of collectives, organizations, tips and mental health resource directories for Black people. Check out the list of resources here.
The (MTA) announced it has launched a pilot program to mount dispensers of free surgical masks inside buses to further protect customers while on board. The MTA has already completed the installation
The Governor has made it clear that neither the President nor the Mayor have a say in determining when schools in New York reopen -- only the he does. And families will have to wait until August to fi