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NYC ACTION: Call on NYC Council to fund and pass this bill & to do more on COVID & Long COVID at NYC Council Committee on Health Executive Budget Hearings this Monday, May 13 at 9:30am. Testify via Zoom, phone, or in-person &/or submit written testimony up to 72 hours later.
NYC ACTION: Contact your
@NYCCouncil
Member & urge them to co-sponsor Int 0332-2024. This important bill would provide access to free masks, other PPE, & rapid tests through the mail to New Yorkers.
💻Email them:
☎️Call them:
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We are excited to announce that free KN95 masks were added to NYC's public health vending machine! Thank you
@nycHealthy
@sus_org
! We first reached out to NYC DOHMH in June about this & have been in conversations & urging them to add free masks. We are thrilled masks were added!
Thank you
@nycHealthy
for working to get
#FreeN95s
and KN95 masks into the public health vending machines! We have been reaching out to DOHMH urging them to add free masks and they have responded they hope to incorporate masks in the machine in the immediate future!
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NYS is ending the mask mandate in medical settings on Feb 12th!!
This will be horrible!!
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If you live in an apartment building, please continue to wear a mask in hallways, elevators, and other common areas. Everyone has a right to be safe in their homes in midst of
#COVID19
pandemic.
#WearAMask
#StopTheSpread
#BringBackMasks
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Thank you
@NYCHealthSystem
for confirming that you will continue your mask policy to protect patients, healthcare workers, and all New Yorkers!
#KeepMasksinHealthcareNY
#KeepMasksinHealthcare
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@Vmarshmellow
@MetOpera
We urge everyone to contact the
@MetOpera
and urge them to remove the horrific video they posted on Instagram showing people celebrating the mask requirement ending. The whole video was ableist and deeply offensive.
Contact Met - 212.362.6000
MetropolitanOpera
@metopera
.org
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It is unacceptable that
@HealthNYGov
gave the public only 3 days notice that the mask mandate in medical settings is ending. There was no warning to the public and no chance for people to rush to get medical care while it was still safer and no chance to reschedule appointments.
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NYC has 16.6%
#COVID
positivity rate!
There are no mask mandates. No free N95 masks for those who want to protect themselves.
And NYE Times Square gathering will be at full capacity with apparently no prevention efforts in place.
This is not okay,
@NYCMayor
@NYCHealthCommr
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Everyone is around people who are medically vulnerable. In your apartment building, subway car, bus, workplace, grocery store, pharmacy, post office, and virtually anywhere you go in public.
Masking up is a risk/benefit calculation. If you’re young, healthy, up-to-date on your vaccinations and you're not worried about long Covid, it may be reasonable to unmask. But if you're medically vulnerable or around people who are, or worried, you might want to adjust. 2/
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For our NYC Mask Guide we couldn't find a single pharmacy in NYC that requires masks. This is absolutely unacceptable especially as they are the mail place giving out vaccines AND are providing testing and treatment for COVID.
Masks need to be required in pharmacies NOW!
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A CDC study showed that most people are willing to wear a mask when there’s high COVID transmission, however most people also think COVID transmission levels are much lower than they actually are.
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A reminder that over 20 museums in NYC still require masks at all times to help protect people, including those at higher risk!
Check out our NYC Mask Guide at ! and let us know if you learn of more museums we should add to the list.
This Sun, Dec 4, we'll be offering our monthly mask-required hours from 11–1. These hours are offered to better accommodate immunocompromised individuals & those who prefer to visit when everyone is masked. If that's you, we hope you'll stop by!
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NYC reports positivity rates back up to 25% in parts of the city.
@NYCHealthCommr
@NYCMayor
response is…
- close testing sites across the city
- end COVID alert system
- change the data reporting so it doesn’t say cases are increasing
🤯🤬👀
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Just spoke to a store employee in NYC who said they would love to require masks in their store to keep people safe but their store can't afford to keep buying masks & that they've heard from their customers they can't afford to buy masks either. NYC needs to provide free masks!
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Hi all! As lots of folks are calling for more museums and other public spaces to require masks, we want to point you to our long list of tweets with more info on how to take action below! Please contact these spaces & urge them to require masks! Squeaky wheel works!
#MandateMasks
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NY, please call
@GovKathyHochul
& urge her to reinstate the mask mandate on public transit!.
212-681-4580
"Hi my name is __. I live in NY. I am calling to urge the Governor to mandate masks on public transit. (optional to say more). Thank you!"
#MaskTransit
#MandateMasksNY
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Hearing that the
@MTA
took down their horrible "You do you" campaign in subways and buses. Some good news! Has anyone still seen those horrible signs on NYC transit?
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🚨
@NYULangone
has announced it will NOT continue to require masks. This is a terrible decision that goes against official
@CDCgov
guidance, and puts patients and healthcare workers at risk.
#KeepMasksinHealthcare
#KeepMasksinHealthcareNY
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🚨 We are tracking New York healthcare settings that have announced they are still requiring masks, after the State's mask mandate expired today.
LINK:
Please DM or email us (MandateMasksNY
@gmail
.com) with tips!
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🚨 ACTION ALERT: There's an important new bill that would provide access to free masks, other PPE, & rapid tests through the mail to New York City residents: Int 1020-2023. We need YOUR help to get this bill passed!
Contact NYC Council Members:
#FreeN95s
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Important: NY still requires masks in most medical settings. CDC guidance change has not changed that.
Please wear a mask at your medical appointments!
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A reminder, there are a lot of people who support mask mandates & other COVID precautions who are staying home & not going out to bars, restaurants, & other risky places. A lot of people are getting groceries delivered instead of in person. Unmasked people you see aren't majority
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@GovKathyHochul
Shameful decision by
@GovKathyHochul
that puts millions of people at more risk and makes transportation more inaccessible for people at higher-risk for severe
#COVID
.
#CovidIsNotOver
#HighRiskCOVID
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@natasharoyy
We need to require masks at pharmacies and all vaccine sites! No one should get COVID in line to get their COVID vaccine/booster.
#MandateMasksInPharmacies
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Thank you
@NYCHealthSystem
for reinstating your mask requirement!
Thank you to all the advocates who have been pushing for this!
#KeepMasksInHealthcare
"all NYC Health + Hospitals are reinstating a mask policy in all areas of their facilities."
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@ArtvWar
Love this!
Please sign our petition calling on
@GovKathyHochul
to reinstate the mask mandate in public transit.
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"N.J. school district reinstates mask mandate as COVID cases rise"
#MandateMasksNY
#BringBackMasks
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"New York State is sending masks and COVID-19 rapid tests to school districts that request them for the start of the 2023-24 school year." ‼️
We have been pushing for NYS to provide more free masks and this is a positive step!
#FreeN95s
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"Mask Mandate Reinstated At Rutgers After Faculty Legal Action"
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UPDATE: United Health Services hospitals in New York including Wilson Medical Center, Binghamton General Hospital, Chenango Memorial Hospital and Delaware Valley Hospital, have reinstated their mask mandate. Thank you
@NYUHSINC
!
#KeepMasksInHealthcare
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Are you also outraged
@SenSchumer
ignored CDC and NYC DOH guidance that tells all New Yorkers to wear a mask right now?
Contact him and urge him to at the bare minimum follow public health guidance and wear a mask! NYC is in COVID surge!
(212) 486-4430
A trip on the C Train with my grandson Noah to see the American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH
and Hayden Planetarium!
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@katie_honan
@GovKathyHochul
@rweingarten
Very disappointing to see
@GovKathyHochul
unmasked while almost everyone else in the room is masked.
#WearAMask
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@emoleechen
@lyft
We're so sorry you experienced that. Everyone has a right to safe travel!
Please join us & call on
@GovKathyHochul
and our NY State legislators to reinstate the mask mandate on public transit, including cabs.
#MaskTransit
#BringBackMasks
#MandateMasks
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It's embarrassing that even Dr Fauci doesn't wear a mask in the pharmacy when he goes to get his vaccine.
#MandateMasksInPharmacies
Dr. Fauci was eligible for his COVID booster shot so Stephen took him next door to the pharmacy to get vaccinated — and they had quite the journey.
#Colbert
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CDC recommends masks for everyone in healthcare settings when COVID-19 Community Transmission is high. NY still has high COVID-19 Community Transmission in most of the state. New York State should follow CDC guidelines and continue its mask requirements for healthcare settings.
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#COVID19
can increase your risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke.
#KeepMasksInHealthCare
#KeepMasksInHealthCareNY
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@colbertlateshow
It's embarrassing that even Dr Fauci doesn't wear a mask in the pharmacy when he goes to get his vaccine.
#MandateMasksInPharmacies
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"Since Thanksgiving, all NYC Health + Hospitals locations made the decision to reinstate their masking policy to include all perimeters of the hospital as more patients are showing up – some testing positive for more than one of the illnesses."
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Thank you
@cooperhewitt
for reinstating your mask mandate in NYC this month!
New Yorkers, if you're looking for a great museum to check out over the holidays, go visit the Cooper Hewitt!
#BringBackMasks
#MandateMasksNY
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Reminder, many people in elite spaces not masked are required to test negative beforehand, from the World Economic Forum to the White House.
Know where
#COVID19
test aren't required? Grocery store, apartment building common areas, pharmacies, laundromats, subways, etc
#WearAMask
Everyone at the World Economic Forum annual meeting — including journalists and participants — has to take a PCR test upon arrival. If you don’t take a test, the chip in your ID badge is deactivated. If you test positive for Covid the badge is also deactivated.
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We need to not just encourage people to wear high-quality masks, like N95s & KN95s. We need to also provide FREE high-quality N95 and KN95 masks!
Federal free N95 mask program at pharmacies ended many months ago. We need city, state, and federal governments to provide
#FreeN95s
!
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NY, if we want mask mandates back we have to BE LOUD!!
Mask mandates can come back on state and local level, but they won't unless we put political pressure on.
Already, public health guidance says everyone should wear a mask. And without mandates, many people won't mask.
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Our NYC Mask Guide is online! Guide lists over 100 museums, businesses, & public spaces in NYC that require masks & other COVID-19 prevention efforts & help protect people, including higher-risk staff & visitors. Please let us know if you find more to add!
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CDC recommends masks for everyone in healthcare settings when COVID-19 Community Transmission is high. New York State still has high COVID-19 Community Transmission in most of the state. NYS should follow CDC guidelines and continue its mask requirements for healthcare settings.
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@RanuDhillon
N95 masks should be mailed for free to every household and there should be a massive public education campaign teaching people about the importance of N95 masks and how to wear them.
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NYC, anyone know of any grocery stores, pharmacies, laundromats, bodegas, and banks in NYC requiring masks? Looking for more local businesses requiring masks and making their spaces safe for workers and visitors! Thanks all!
#MandateMasksNY
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Very disappointed to learn
@godslovenyc
is ending their mask requirements, despite HIGH
#COVID19
Community Transmission in NYC. They provide free meals to people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer & other serious illnesses.
@alexmeshkin
The level of denial from orgs serving the medically vulnerable is astounding and in conflict with actual epidemiological data
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NYC ACTION: Contact your
@NYCCouncil
Member and urge them to co-sponsor Int 0332-2024. This bill would provide access to free masks, other PPE, & rapid tests through the mail to New Yorkers.
#FreeN95s
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Thank you
@SmithsonianNMAI
for reinstating your mask mandate in NYC this month!
New Yorkers, if you're looking for a great museum to check out over the holidays, go visit the National Museum of the American Indian!
#BringBackMasks
#MandateMasksNY
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.
@GovKathyHochul
@NYHealthCommish
, no one should have to risk their life and health to access needed medical care. Please reinstate the mask requirement in healthcare settings.
#KeepMasksInHealthcare
According to the latest CDC wastewater data, 35 states have very high or high levels of COVID-19.
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Please keep your mask on in photos. It helps protect you & those around you & also helps promote masking when you share the photo w/ others!
Another way to help, change your profile picture to one where you're wearing a mask.
We need to show that lots of people still
#MaskUp
!
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@DrLeanaWen
@denise_dewald
Why do you think masking is such a major inconvenience
@DrLeanaWen
? Your hatred of masks is ridiculous. People in many other countries have been wearing masks for much longer than the US. Masks are a simple way to save lives.
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@Bob_Wachter
@UCSF
Are you factoring in the fact that you have paid sick leave, financial means to be unable to work for weeks/months/years, good health insurance in case you get sick, access to excellent medical care, and other resources that many other people don't have?
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NYC & surrounding areas, speak out at MTA Board Meeting on Wednesday & call for mask mandate on public transit! Members of public are invited to speak for 2 minutes each, either virtually or in person, if you register starting around 9:30am. More info:
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It appears
@nycHealthy
is intentionally downplaying high
#COVID
in wastewater data because they want to focus on the artificially low case count (which doesn't include home tests!).
This is highly misleading.
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@SenSchumer
@AMNH
Sad to see even our
@SenSchumer
ignore
@CDCgov
guidance that says everyone should wear masks on public transit and indoor public spaces in NYC right now due to our HIGH
#COVID19
Community Levels, Community Transmission and hospitalizations!
Please wear a mask, Senator Schumer!
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NYC is in the midst of large
#COVID
surge. However, there are no programs that offer free masks and other PPE to the general public.
Please join us and call on
@NYCHealthCommr
and
@NYCCouncil
to provide
#FreeN95s
masks to the public!
#BringBackMasks
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Please sign our petition calling on
@GovKathyHochul
to reinstate the mask mandate in public transit in NY! Thanks!
#MandateMasksNY
#MaskTransit
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New CDC
#COVID19
data is out and most of NYS still has HIGH COVID Community Transmission.
@GovKathyHochul
, Commissioner
@HealthNYGov
, mask mandate needs to continue in medical settings!
#KeepMasksInHealthcareNY
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Sad to see even our
@SenSchumer
ignore
@CDCgov
guidance that says everyone should wear masks on public transit and indoor public spaces in NYC right now due to our HIGH
#COVID19
Community Levels, Community Transmission and hospitalizations!
Please wear a mask, Senator Schumer!
A trip on the C Train with my grandson Noah to see the American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH
and Hayden Planetarium!
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Everyone has a right to access health care safely. No one should have to risk their lives to seek necessary medical care.
#KeepMasksInHealthcare
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Go Newark, NJ!
#MandateMasksNJ
"Newark Public Schools students will be required to wear masks when classes start in two weeks, as the district faces overcrowded classrooms because of a teacher shortage."
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Very disappointed to see two NYC science museums,
@AMNH
and
@nysci
, both ignored the science and lifted their mask mandate in midst of
#COVID
surge in NYC!
Many art museums in NYC are following the science more than science museums. 😷👀
#MandateMasksNY
#COVIDIsNotOver
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Almost the entire state of NY has high or substantial Community Transmission of
#COVID19
.
Wear a mask, New Yorkers.
#WearAMask
Source:
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@CDCgov
If someone has
#COVID
, they shouldn't be at the table with lots of other people.
#COVIDIsAirborne
. Covering your mouth while you sneeze isn't going to prevent the spread. This post seems to provide misinformation.
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@BeingCharisBlog
We created a NYC Mask Guide to highlight businesses, museums, and other public spaces that are still requiring masks and other COVID prevention efforts. It's online at
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To all the elected officials, please let your constituents know that NY is in midst of
#COVID
surge and that everyone should wear a high-quality N95 mask, in addition to getting the booster.
And please provide free N95 masks at your district offices and let constituents know!
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@AshishKJha46
Kids aren't safe if
#COVID
is spreading & there are no mask mandates in place.
CDC says schools in counties w/ HIGH COVID Community Levels should require masks, which is a lot of US right now.
Why aren't you speaking out and calling on schools to follow CDC and
#MandateMasks
?
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🚨 ACTION: NYC, there's an important new bill that would provide access to free masks, other PPE, & rapid tests through the mail! Please call & email your NYC Council Members & urge them to co-sponsor Int 1020-2023!
#FreeN95s
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@JenniferLerner1
In NYC, sadly it seems our local public health department doesn't have the power to reinstate the indoor mask mandate. It appears to be up to our Mayor. And our Mayor seems to be very focused on reopening the city to tourists and pretending COVID is over.
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Auburn Community Hospital joins Upstate University Hospital (
@UpstateNews
) and NYC Health + Hospitals (
@NYCHealthSystem
) as healthcare systems in New York that have reinstated or continued their mask mandate.
Please check our mask guide to keep updated:
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“Whereas before, with previous strains of the virus, Osterholm says it may have taken 10 to 15 minutes of exposure to be at risk of infection, with BA.5, he says it would take nothing more than ‘an elevator ride.’”
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The thing about
#COVID19
is you don't know beforehand whether it will be a short-term inconvenience or whether that one unmasked trip to store or dinner will result in
#LongCOVID
& long-term disabilities that will change your entire life. Don't play Russian Roulette. Wear a mask.
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@adamcancryn
@V2019N
@davidalim
Are they restarting the free N95 mask program? The
@WhiteHouse
should mail free N95 masks to everyone when they mail them at-home tests!
The federal free N95 mask program has ended and tons of people can't afford to purchase masks to protect themselves and their families!
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Thank you to the woman who spoke about her experience as someone with cancer walking 3-4 miles each way to get cancer treatment because taking the trains was not safe as they ended the mask mandate!
@MTA
must reinstate the mask mandate!
#MaskTransit
#MandateMasksNY
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BREAKING: Auburn Community Hospital has reinstated its mask mandate due to rising COVID cases in New York.
#KeepMasksInHealthcare
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It is painful to hear when businesses and museums focus on everyone using hand sanitizer but don't require masks.
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Great news! We just heard Park Slope
@FoodCoop
is reinstating their mask requirement for 2 days a week! Grateful to all the businesses and public spaces that are taking action to help protect one another and make their spaces more accessible!
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Call Governor Kathy Hochul & NYS Health Commissioner & urge them to keep mask mandate in medical settings! We need to speak out!
Governor Kathy Hochul - 212-681-4580
Health Commissioner 518-474-2011
#KeepMasksinHealthcareNY
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Reminder, tweeting your anger at what's happening about
#COVID
is great & helps raise awareness, but if you can please take 5 more minutes & contact your electeds & tell them you want them to reinstate mask mandates & other COVID prevention efforts! They need to hear from us!
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NYC needs to give out **free N95 masks**, not just free surgical masks!
And NYC needs to provide free N95 masks in multiple public locations and provide a public list!
Currently NYC 311 just tells people to go to federal mask distribution program which has ended.
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🚨 We have updated our list of healthcare settings in New York that still require masks. So far, 24 healthcare centers have announcemed that they will continue their mask mandates.
FULL LIST HERE:
#KeepMasksinHealthcare
#KeepMasksinHealthcareNY
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@DGlaucomflecken
Watching doctors gather with no masks when we know COVID community transmission levels are high across the US is really something. Please wear a mask!
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If you need free N95/KN95 masks and haven't been able to access them locally, please reach out to
@ProjectN95
. They're providing free high-quality masks to people by mail!
#FreeN95s
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Majority of people in NYC do not own a car. Millions of people rely on public transit.
NYC is in midst of large
#COVID19
surge.
NY needs to reinstate the mask mandate on public transit.
Please take 2 minutes and send letter to
@GovKathyHochul
and NY State legislators below.
Use this tool to send a letter to
@GovKathyHochul
and your NY State Legislators urging them to reinstate the mask mandate in public transit!
#MaskTransit
#MandateMasksNY
#BringBackMasks
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Are we going to start allowing smoking on buses and subway cars soon? You do you
@GovKathyHochul
@MTA
@NYCMayor
@NYCMayorsOffice
?
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Thanks to everyone who called and wrote
@SenSchumer
's office! Looks like it made a difference!
UPDATE: Sen Schumer’s office says he was mistakenly tallied as a YES in yesterday’s resolution to terminate the COVID national emergency.
“Sen. Schumer was mistakenly recorded as a yes. That is not his position. It will be corrected later today when the Senate convenes.” - Spox
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More people are dying from
#COVID
now in NYC than were dying from COVID last year at this time.
Horrifying!
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CDC recommends everyone wear a mask in healthcare settings when
#COVID19
Community Transmission is high, which much of NYS currently is.
NY should follow CDC guidelines & continue its mask requirements for healthcare settings!
#KeepMasksinHealthcareNY
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@AEngelforNY
@NYCMayor
We hope your father is going to be okay!
@NYCMayor
needs to reinstate the mask mandate!
Please join our advocacy efforts & ask your
@NYCCouncil
member to speak out & call for mask mandate to be reinstated! 7 City Council Members have spoken out so far!
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UPDATE: Hospitals in NYC continuing masks
✅
@ColumbiaDoctors
✅
@CentersHealth
✅
@HSpecialSurgery
✅
@MaimoHealth
✅
@MSKCancerCenter
✅
@MountSinaiNYC
✅
@NorthwellHealth
✅
@NYCHealthSystem
❌
@NYULangone
✅
@NYPHospital
✅
@WeillCornell
FULL NYS LIST
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Thank you
@PublicTheaterNY
@phnyc
& other theaters that are holding some mask-required performances this fall & making their spaces more accessible for folks at higher risk for severe COVID & those still taking COVID precautions!♥️
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Take action to reinstate the mask mandate for healthcare settings in NY!
Contact
@GovKathyHochul
,
@HealthNYGov
Commissioner, and your NY State Senator and Assemblymember!
#KeepMasksinHealthcareNY
@MandateMasksNY
#MandateMasksNY
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NYC, if we could design a free N95 mask distribution program in the city, where would you want to access free N95 masks?? At the same places you can pick up free rapid home tests (libraries, etc)? Any other places?
#MandateMasksNY
#BringBackMasks
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