5 years after first COVID death in NYC, Mayor Adams lauds the city's resilient recovery

Record ID: 1983479

  • Title: 5 years after first COVID death in NYC, Mayor Adams lauds the city's resilient recovery
  • Date: 14th March 2025
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) VICTOR YARBROUGH, CO-FOUNDER OF BROUGH BROTHERS DISTILLERY, SAYING: “It's just the uncertainty. If we know either way, long term, that's fine. You know, we'll pivot and make the adjustments necessary regardless, but the uncertainty of a 30-days on and off two weeks on, two weeks off, that's just very difficult for an actual producer, like a manufactur
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  • Keywords: 5-year anniversary Bill de Blasio COVID-19 Eric Adams NEW YORK CITY mayor
  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: Health/Medicine,North America
  • Reuters ID: LVA001889214032025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: New York City Mayor Eric Adams paid tribute to those who lost their lives to COVID-19 on the fifth anniversary of the first confirmed death in the city, which was the epicenter of the global pandemic.
    “As we go through this COVID-19 Remembrance Day, we remember more than 46,000 New Yorkers. We lost 46,000 New Yorkers,” said Adams at Elmhurst Hospital Center on Friday (March 14).
    According to the mayor’s office, New York City has recorded over 3 million COVID-19 cases, more than 240,000 hospitalizations, and 46,825 deaths since the pandemic began.
    Elmhurst Hospital became the epicenter of the crisis, and as emergency departments flooded with sick patients across all five boroughs.
    Laura Iavicoli, chief medical officer at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, said the pandemic "revealed the depths of our resilience but also the cracks in our system, the vulnerabilities that must never be ignored again. Let this moment serve as a recommitment to the strengthening of public health, to ensuring that no community is left behind when crises strike again."
    Former Mayor Bill de Blasio, who declared a state of emergency on March 12, 2020, said the energy of the city was back.
    “There were a lot of people who did not believe New York City could ever make it truly back to where we were," he said. "You can feel it almost as if it's 2019 or before.”
    (Production: Kyoko Gasha)
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