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Title: Queens lawmaker introduces bill to provide
funding for aff ordable housing and homeless services
Summary: Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng
has introduced a new transformative legislation to
authorize more than $300 billion for crucial housing
infrastructure while reducing homelessness across the
country.
Reach: 2,437 (as of 07/12/2021)
The looming Delta threat
Th e COVID-19 pandemic is far from
over in New York City, as too many
New Yorkers are fi nding out the hard
way.Th
e Delta variant — a more contagious
and severe mutation of the virus
that stopped the world in its tracks last
year — is making the rounds in New
York City. More than 40 percent of new
cases reported in the fi ve boroughs
involve patients who contracted the
Delta variant of COVID-19, according
to the city Health Department’s preliminary
data.
Meanwhile, the city keeps on reopening
aft er more than a year of shutdowns
and restrictions. Mask mandates have
been lift ed in most places. Th e spread
of the Delta variant threatens to put a
serious dent in the progress made in
recent months, if not upend it.
Th e good news is that more than half
of all New York City residents are fully
vaccinated against COVID-19. And
while vaccinated New Yorkers can still
contract the virus, the vaccine enables
their bodies to successfully fi ght it off
with few to no symptoms.
But unvaccinated New Yorkers
remain at the same level of risk of serious
illness or death that everyone had
before the vaccine came along. Th e
Delta variant looms a menacing threat
to their well-being — and it is attacking
unvaccinated people.
Th e numbers do not lie. Th e Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
reported that nationally, 99.2 percent
of all COVID-19 deaths in June were
of unvaccinated Americans. Th e Delta
variant is spiking COVID-19 cases
across areas of the country where vaccination
rates are low, packing hospital
rooms with sick patients and again
putting frontline health care workers at
risk themselves.
In the latest NYC Health Department
data, 24 neighborhoods across the fi ve
boroughs have less than 40 percent of
their residents fully vaccinated against
COVID-19. Th ese areas are particularly
vulnerable to the Delta variant, and the
city and state must quickly step up all
eff orts to get the vaccine in arms there.
Th e situation is no diff erent than a
menacing storm looming off the shore,
threatening to bring a life-threatening
storm surge that would wipe out
homes, businesses and lives. It’s not too
late to save the unvaccinated — but that
requires cooperation from the unvaccinated.
We beg any New Yorker who hasn’t
already been fully vaccinated against
COVID-19 to do so now. Don’t let
the anti-vaccine rhetoric of fear-mongers
and political profi teers scare you
to death.
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Make sure you get vaccinated as the Delta variant of COVID-19 is making the rounds in New York City.
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