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No 7 Queens Line neighborhood hit hard by the Coronavirus

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No 7 Queens Line neighborhood hit hard by the Coronavirus
Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 11:04 AM

In IRT-BMT joint-operation days, it was not the "7" (which was the franklin Avenue Shuttle, home of the "Little Zephyr"), but simply the Corona-Flushing Line. Still has most of its route above ground, with great views of the city and of Sunnyside Yard.


 

Biggest test to date for experimental virus vaccine; COVID-19 exacts a heavy toll in Queens neighborhood of Corona

 

Sleeves were rolled up en masse to take part in the biggest test yet of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine as the first of some 30,000 volunteers received shots created by the U.S. government in the all-out global race to stop the pandemic.

 

Another company, Pfizer Inc., announced that it had started its own study of its vaccine candidate in the U.S. and elsewhere. It will be months before results of either trickle in.

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China Vaccine: The head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention says he has been injected with an experimental vaccine in an attempt to persuade the public to follow suit when one is approved. Gao Fu declined to specify which company's vaccine he took. The claim underscores the enormous stakes as China competes with U.S. and British companies to be the first with a vaccine to help end the pandemic – a feat that would be both a scientific and a political triumph, Dake Kang reports from Beijing.

 

Queens, New York: The coronavirus has dramatically altered the lives of many in Corona, a Latino neighborhood in Queens that registered the highest overall case and death counts in New York City. Even though tropical music emerges from stores that recently reopened, the lingering scars of COVID-19 are unmissable: Lines for free food are filled with unemployed men, and store shutters are down on businesses that have closed permanently. Many families, too, are still mourning. It is pure coincidence that the neighborhood, where more than 440 people have died, shares its name with the virus. Claudia Torrens has this story. 

Edited and ezcerpted from JTA
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Posted by highball6868 on Friday, July 31, 2020 10:53 AM

We dont know what having Covid anti-bodies means yet....The Covid Anti-Bodies have been known to possibly attack the brain-https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/pandemic-biohazard/coronavirus-seems-to-turn-antibodies-against-us-tricking-them-into-attacking-brain/   The prediction of Corona Zombies may be coming true would not want to share Subway with these people. Hollywood movies like "I am Legend" and "12 Monkeys" are coming true...Both films used Philly and there rail systems as locations. 

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