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Flu epidemic rages
Cases of the flu in New
York state this season ...
as vaccine dwindles
4K
Gov. Andrew Cuomo declares a public health emergency Some
... Compared to the
total last season pharmacies are running out of the vaccine City officials are calling for
residents to get vaccinated It’s the worst flu outbreak in years
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Flu outbreak hammers NY
1
Governor Cuomo declares public health emergency Executive order allows
pharmacists to give flu shots to more people Some pharmacies are running
out of the vaccine City officials warn people to prepare for a ‘high’ flu activity
SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES
New Yorkers scrambled to Running
get flu shots this weekend
after Governor Andrew out of
Cuomo declared a public
health emergency to com- vaccines
bat the rising number of
influenza cases in the A pharmacist at a
state. Duane Reade on 34th
Gov. Cuomo declared and Third said Friday
the state of emergency on they were still stocked
Saturday, allowing phar- with flu shots, but
macists permission to ad- added, “I can’t say for
In the news minister flu vaccinations how long.”
to stem the worst flu out- Shanay Barrow, a
School bus
break in the state in years. pharmacy technician at
strike threat “We are experiencing the CVS on 34th
continues the worst flu season since between Second and
at least 2009, and influen- Third avenues, said they
za activity in New York ran out of vaccines
Deputy Mayor Howard state is widespread, with Thursday and were not
Wolfson tweeted that cases reported in all 57 A woman walks out of the Premier Care walk-in health expecting a shipment
parents should counties and all five bor- clinic that administers flu shots in New York City. for days.
anticipate a school bus oughs of New York City,” “It’s been
strike this week as a re- Cuomo said. overwhelming,” she
sult of the city’s battle Some pharmacies even 19K 5.7M said of customers com-
with the union over a re- ran out of flu vaccines, Get a vaccine ing in “one after anoth-
quest for bids on yellow frustrating stressed New er.” “Everyone’s
bus contracts. Schools Yorkers who lined up for freaking out.”
Chancellor Dennis them around the five bor- Vaccines are available at The New York Walgreens, which Last year, she added,
Walcott announced that oughs. local drugstores, most Governor’s office said owns Duane Reade, they may have given
the city will deploy addi- Ten people have died doctor’s offices and 19,128 cases of said they have already out four or five shots a
tional transit officers and so far this year of flu-relat- Health Department im- influenza have been given more flu shots day. “These days, it’s
crossing guards to man- ed illnesses, according to munization clinics, Far- reported this season, nationwide than all of like 40-some each day.”
age the influx of the city’s Health ley said. compared with 4,404 last season — 5.7 mil-
students taking public Department. Call 311 to find out spe- tests for the 2011-12 lion shots so far, and Quoted
transit or walking. The Centers for Disease cific locations. period. it’s only increasing.
METRO/DT Control and Prevention re- “It’s been
leased data last week re- Quoted woman said. New York City is increas- overwhelming.
porting that New York City Health Department ing, and we encourage any
In the news specifically has experi- “That’s when the data shows flu-related New Yorkers who have not Everyone’s
enced higher than average pushing to grab emergency room visits received their flu vaccina- freaking out.”
flu activity. spiking in late December tion to do so immediately,”
The Health Department the forms started and remaining high until he said. BARROW
has classified January flu and the panic.” Jan. 5, the most recent data “This season is becom-
activity as “high.” They re- available. ing one of the worst in the
ported 40 outbreaks and NEW YORKER ERIKA BELLE Last week, Health decade,” spokesman 10
more than 400 people sick. SAID PEOPLE WERE PUSHING Commissioner Thomas Calvin Peters said about
Twenty outbreaks were at AND SHOVING WHEN SHE TRIED Farley urged New Yorkers the city.
long-term care facilities, as TO GET A SHOT IN MIDTOWN. who hadn’t already to get
were the deaths, a THEY WERE TOLD ONLY 20 their shots. Alison Bowen Reported flu deaths
Jet Blue planes Department spokes- VACCINES REMAINED. “Influenza activity in [email protected] in NYC so far
turn back after
striking birds
PHOTO BY MELANIE STETSON FREEMAN/THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR VIA GETTY IMAGES
A JetBlue flight to the who cannot return to their Sandy, as all scheduled
Bahamas was forced homes due to the storm in trains are operational on
to turn around In the news hotels while longer-term the Pascack Valley and
Sunday after striking housing solutions are Port Jervis lines after
a bird. The plane Post-Sandy worked out. FEMA will call incremental restorations
took off from JFK applicants eligible for the since October. NJTransit
around 10 a.m., but housing program extension to notify them of restored two trains on the
returned to the air- extended the new checkout date of Port Jervis line and five on
port an hour later, a Jan. 27. METRO/DT the Pascack Valley, two
spokeswoman con- The Transitional Sheltering weekday inbound and
firmed. Just one day Assistance program instated MetroNorth three weekday outbound.
earlier, a bird strike after superstorm Sandy was service now Some Port Jervis lines will
similarly forced a extended for 14 days follow- continue to make stops in
JetBlue flight from ing Federal Emergency fully restored New Jersey to support
JFK to the Dominican Management Agency NJTransit’s continuing
Republic to turn approval of a request by A Staten Island homeowner surveys the damage The MetroNorth system is post-storm recovery at 5
around. Governor Andrew Cuomo. after his house was destroyed by superstorm Sandy. fully restored for the first a.m. and 2 p.m. peak
METRO/JG The program places families time since superstorm hours. METRO/DT
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the possible mishandling of unanswered,” Quinn Saturday after being found
hundreds of city rape cases. vowed. with stab wounds and
In the news The announcement Councilman Peter burns to the body, accord- Web activist
came after a report in The Vallone added, “Without ing to the New York Police
Council convenes New York Times on Friday the crucial evidence provid- Department.
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rape evidence Medical Examiner’s office. matter.” METRO/AB his apartment in Fordham
At the Jan. 22 hearing, Heights. amid charges
“No question will remain Man stabbed, Later that day, Leo
City Council Speaker burned to death Huggins, 48, was arrested
Christine Quinn announced 800 and charged with murder,
the Council will convene an Cases un- A 56-year-old Bronx man burglary and arson, accord-
emergency hearing about der review was pronounced dead early ing to police. METRO/JG Aaron Swartz, 26, an
Internet activist who creat- Net icon
ed an early version of the
Web feed system RSS and
news sharing system
Reddit, was found dead in
his Brooklyn apartment on
Friday, according to a
spokeswoman for the
city’s chief medical exam-
iner, which ruled the
death a suicide by hanging.
Swartz faced trouble in
July 2011, when he was in-
dicted by a federal grand Over the years, Swartz
jury of wire fraud, comput- became an online icon
er fraud and other charges for helping to make a
related to allegedly steal- mountain of information
ing millions of academic freely available to the
articles and journals from public, including an esti-
a digital archive at the mated 19 million pages
Massachusetts Institute of of federal court docu-
Technology. ments from the PACER
According to the feder- case-law system.
al indictment, Swartz used
MIT’s computer networks Swartz, who pleaded
to steal more than 4 mil- not guilty, faced 35 years
lion articles from JSTOR, in prison if convicted. His
an online archive and jour- trial was scheduled to start
nal distribution service. later this year.REUTERS
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High Bridge park No pants? No problem
to be restored
In the news
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Overnight broke ground on the $61
million High Bridge park
service at B, D restoration spanning the
subway stations Bronx-bound train Harlem River, connecting
suspended Highbridge in the Bronx
with Washington Heights in
closures can add 20 Manhattan. The project is
BRONX. The MTA’s minutes to travel time. intended to make the park
FASTRACK repairs program A transfer is available more accessible while still
is being extended past the between the 4 and the D at preserving the history of
Central Business District 161st Street. Free shuttle the oldest bridge in New
and Downtown Brooklyn buses will run between the York City. It will reopen the
for the first time. Horwood 205th Street D bridge to pedestrians for
The Grand Concourse B, station and Mosholu the first time since 1970.
D lines in the Bronx will be Parkway 4 station. METRO/DT
shut down overnight from METRO/DT
10 p.m. to 5 a.m. for four Storm
consecutive weeknights Man found dead commission
starting today. The MTA rec-
in Brooklyn releases report
ommends the 4 train as an
alternative and says night BROOKLYN. Police respond-
ed to a 911 call on Saturday The NYS2100 Commission
at 7:44 p.m. to find a man appointed by Governor
B prepared unconscious and unrespon- Cuomo after superstorm
sive in front of 3418 Atlantic Sandy has submitted a re-
Avenue in Brooklyn. The port to strengthen the state
B, D lines in the Bronx man was taken to Jamaica against future natural disas-
Grand Concourse will Hospital, where he was pro- ters. Suggestions include MILES DIXON/METRO
Stripping to their skivvies for No Pants ride
shut down. nounced dead on arrival. investing in “green” solu-
No arrests have been made, tions and appointing a
10 a.m. to 5 a.m. and the Medical Examiner Chief Risk Officer to coordi- The 12th annual No Pants Subway Ride took place yesterday when hundreds of
Service will disrupted has yet to identify the cause nate state agencies. New Yorkers shuck down to their skivvies and rode the rails throughout the city.
until Friday of death. METRO/DT METRO/DT The event is the brainchild of Improv Everywhere, a group that pulls pranks in
public areas. METRO
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markets are calm, with the of 2011 and will choose $16.4 trillion borrowing
benchmark S&P 500 barely compromise over market limit. However, some con-
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ing high on Thursday. apart in their views. with the debt ceiling.
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(Discussion and Signing) its website. Armstrong, 41,
Armstrong to
plans to say he used
admit to doping performance-enhancing
drugs without giving any
“Fast-paced with a double-whiplash Lance Armstrong will ad- detail on specific cases and
mit to doping during his events, USA Today said, cit-
bombshell conclusion.” cycling career in a ing the person.
television interview with Armstrong was banned
—Kirkus Reviews Oprah Winfrey, USA Today from competing for life
reports, citing an unidenti- and stripped of his seven
fied person with know- home in Austin, Texas, and Tour de France victories af-
ledge of the situation. broadcast three days later ter declining to take the
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No trillion-dollar coins; Obama fitness
Debt crisis Staying fit Bush getting better In Hagel’s corner Nothing to sneeze at
Obama undergoes Hagel ‘superbly Flu cases are
fitness exam qualified’ to widespread in
head Defense, US, some states
WASHINGTON. President
Barack Obama had a little Powell says improve
personal fitness boot camp
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Obama participated in a Vietnam War veteran, is “su- widespread in 47 states
fitness evaluation at a perbly qualified” to run the and deaths from the virus
Ex-President
Pentagon clinic, part of the Pentagon, former Secretary and pneumonia are
So much for the $1 trillion platinum coin idea. periodic medical examina- George HW Bush of State Colin Powell said in slightly above the
tion that is coordinated by may leave a television interview. Powell epidemic level, though
Treasury, Fed GETTY IMAGES the president’s doctor. hospital soon appeared on “Meet the some regions may begin
platinum coins has He was at the Fit to Win Press” yesterday, rejecting to see fewer cases, U.S.
kill idea of gained some currency Clinic inside the Pentagon. criticism over a comment disease trackers said.
$1 trillion among Democrats in re- The clinic’s website says its AUSTIN, TEXAS.Former Hagel made about the The Centers for Disease
cent days as a way of side- objective is to enhance “mili- President George H.W. Bush, “Jewish lobby” and a 2007 Control and Prevention
platinum coins
stepping congressional tary readiness and civilian who has been hospitalized vote opposing the designa- reported 20 children died
Republicans who are wellness through fitness, nu- in Houston since November, tion of Iran’s Islamic from the flu. The agency
WASHINGTON.The U.S. threatening to reject a trition, health education and may be released from the Revolutionary Guards Corps doesn’t tally adult deaths
Treasury Department said necessary increase in the positive lifestyle behavior facility in the coming days, a as a terrorist group. until after the end of the
it will not produce debt ceiling unless deep changes.” REUTERS family spokesman said yes- BLOOMBERG season. Two children in
platinum coins as a way spending cuts are made. GETTY IMAGES terday. GETTY IMAGES New York have died from
of generating $1 trillion The Treasury “We are hopeful that the the flu. BLOOMBERG
in revenue and avoiding a Department and the president can be discharged
battle in Congress over Federal Reserve, both in- this coming week, but we’re 47
raising the U.S. debt ceil- dependent of one anoth- still taking everything one The flu
ing. er,each concluded this day at a time,” spokesman epidemic
The idea of creating $1 was not a viable option. Jim McGrath said in an is now is widespread
trillion by minting REUTERS e-mail. REUTERS in 47 states.
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France bombs Islamist
lowered part of a rock that
was removed from the
stronghold in north Mali In the news hull and has been carved
into a memorial and
GETTY IMAGES adorned with a plaque,
into the water.
Their boat sounded its
GETTY IMAGES horn 32 times to salute
French fighter jets pound- the dead. REUTERS
ed an Islamist rebel
stronghold deep in north- Costa Concordia Bomb kills
ern Mali yesterday as Paris 14 Pakistani
poured more troops into Survivors mark
soldiers in North
the capital Bamako, await- anniversary of
ing a West African force to Waziristan
Concordia cruise
dislodge al Qaeda-linked
insurgents from the coun- shipwreck MIRANSHAH, PAKISTAN. A
try’s north. roadside bomb killed as
The attack on Gao, the GIGLIO ISLAND, ITALY. many as 14 Pakistani
largest city in the desert Survivors of the Costa soldiers in the northern
region controlled by the Paris said that four state-of-the-art Rafale jets flew from France to strike rebel Concordia disaster and rel- border region of North
Islamist alliance, marked training camps, logistics depots and infrastructure in Gao with the aim of atives of the 32 people Waziristan yesterday, a day
a decisive intensification weakening the rebels and preventing them from returning southward. who died returned to the after the Pakistani Taliban
on the third day of French Italian island of Giglio yes- leader called for attacks on
air raids, striking at the GETTY IMAGES terday to mark one year military in the area to stop.
heart of the vast territory vention on Friday had pre- ‘Operation since the luxury cruise lin- The explosion occurred
seized by rebels in April. vented the advancing er capsized. on a road about 30 miles
France is determined to rebels from seizing Serval’ A boat ferried the visi- south of the provincial cap-
end Islamist domination Bamako. He vowed that tors close to where the ital of Miranshah. Twenty-
of north Mali, which air strikes would continue. France has deployed 950-foot-long ship hit one soldiers were
many fear could act as a “The president is totally about 550 soldiers to rocks before keeling over wounded in the attack,
base for attacks on the determined that we must Mali under “Operation on its side off the Tuscan senior army officials said.
West and for links with al eradicate these terrorists Serval,” named after an island, where it still lies A spokesman for the
Qaeda in Yemen, Somalia who threaten the securi- African wildcat, split be- now. Mujahideen Ansar, a group
and North Africa. ty of Mali, our own coun- tween Bamako and the They threw bunches of dominated by Uzbek fight-
France’s Defense try and Europe,” he told French Defense town of Mopti, which is flowers in the sea and ers, claimed responsibility.
Minister Jean-Yves Le French television. Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian 300 miles north. watched as a crane REUTERS
Drian said French inter- REUTERS
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the states
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moved in that direction — Florida, Louisiana, The study comes at a protecting veteran teach- measures — complex algo-
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has pushed states to give impossible for a teacher to Ohio have been wrangling over teacher heart in the finding that students do better or
heavy weight to earn a good review if his particularly aggressive in evaluations in cities like seniority doesn’t predict worse on state tests after
quantitative measures such or her test scores are low, tying teacher ratings to New York, Los Angeles and classroom success. several months in a given
as test scores in designing no matter how well the test scores. Chicago — and provides Yet the report also bol- teacher’s classroom.
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