“We cannot feed into the hysteria,” Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday during an appearance on CNN. “This is traumatizing for our children.”
Black and Hispanic New Yorkersfrom the virus since the pandemic began; their hospitalization rates are nearly twice those of white New Yorkers. The poorest neighborhoods have also suffered disproportionately from COVID-19, with residents dying at more than twice the rate seen in wealthier parts of the city.
“One of the things that I have learned through this entire experience is that remote learning has become a privilege of those who are privileged,” she said. She later added: “If we had a snowstorm we would have shifted to remote. What we have now isn’t a snowstorm; it’s a wildfire.” Lander said distributing take-home tests before the holidays — as other U.S. school districts, like Boston, did — would have given parents the necessary confidence they needed to send their children back to school.
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