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Why COVID-19 Vaccines Need to Prioritize 'Superspreaders'

Why COVID-19 Vaccines Need to Prioritize 'Superspreaders'

How should COVID-19 vaccine be prioritized?
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Prospect Heights Among Neighborhoods to be Sprayed for Mosquitoes This Week

Prospect Heights Among Neighborhoods to be Sprayed for Mosquitoes This Week

The city is planning to spray several Brooklyn neighborhoods with pesticides Thursday to reduce risks posed by the pests
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Fall Sports Back on the Agenda for City’s Youth

Fall Sports Back on the Agenda for City’s Youth

Permits for youth sports leagues have been issued after the council reversed its decision to suspend youth sports indefinitely
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Kids Are Bigger Coronavirus Spreaders Than Many Doctors Realized – Here’s How Schools Can Lower The Risk

Kids Are Bigger Coronavirus Spreaders Than Many Doctors Realized – Here’s How Schools Can Lower The Risk

The first U.S. schools have reopened with in-person classes, and they are already setting off alarm bells about how quickly the coronavirus can spread
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Brooklyn Poet’s New Book Lays Bare the Imperfect Process of Healing

Brooklyn Poet’s New Book Lays Bare the Imperfect Process of Healing

Jackie Bluu, a survivor of sexual abuse, wants readers to know they are not alone
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Healthcare Workers, Public Advocate Call on City to Invest in Sustainable PPE

Healthcare Workers, Public Advocate Call on City to Invest in Sustainable PPE

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams wrote a letter to the City co-signed by healthcare professionals calling for increased production and distribution of reusable PPE
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Rollerskating Returns to Brooklyn Streets

Rollerskating Returns to Brooklyn Streets

Skating instructor Tanya Dean is making it her mission to get people out and pumping again
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Brooklyn Community Steps Out in Generosity for Premature Baby Girl and Her Mom

Brooklyn Community Steps Out in Generosity for Premature Baby Girl and Her Mom

A baby girl born almost 3 months premature amid the COVID-19 pandemic has come home to a house full of supplies thanks to the generosity of the Bed-Stuy community
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Family of Sha-Asia Semple Cry Out for Justice After Daughter's Death at Brooklyn Hospital

Family of Sha-Asia Semple Cry Out for Justice After Daughter's Death at Brooklyn Hospital

Semple died during childbirth at Woodhull Medical Center on July 2, highlighting the maternal death rate for Black women
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Freedom Food: Bushwick Garden Feeds Its Neighborhood Through Pandemic

Freedom Food: Bushwick Garden Feeds Its Neighborhood Through Pandemic

Bushwick gardener Kofi Thomas shows how gardening and growing food can make us more free
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