Health

“We in E.M.S. are completely in the dark on what the plan is for the coming months and what to expect,” the Montauk Ambulance Company wrote in a letter to the town board. “We need clarity and, more importantly, to have our thoughts heard.”

Stony Brook University Hospital and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital have devised ways to give voice to their Covid-19 patients and help keep them in touch with their families.

Waiting out the pandemic on the South Fork, three teens saw a need, turned their concern into action, and partnered with an Amagansett church to come to the aid of people "struggling to support their families."

Two measures of Long Island’s progress toward reopening the economy appear to be at odds, but one thing is for certain at this point: When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s Pause order expires tomorrow, Long Island will not be ready to fully reopen despite what is thought to be the waning impact of Covid-19 in New York State.

East Hampton’s formidable population of “older adults” is characterized, among many traits, by resilience, and that can serve them well in the face of a pandemic.

The Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, founded in 2006 by the musician John Bongiovi Jr., a.k.a. Jon Bon Jovi, to address hunger and homelessness in the United States, is establishing a food bank to supply and deliver food to a central location in East Hampton Town for distribution to its food pantries.

The number of Covid-19 patients in Suffolk County hospitals increased by 10 on Monday, and a number from Tuesday was not yet available. The increase may just be a "one day thing," said Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone at his daily briefing.

"It's been a very rough couple of months -- but at least now there's a sliver of light," said Claude Okin, who owns the Sportime club in Amagansett and numerous other tennis clubs in the metro area.

El viernes pasado, las autoridades anunciaron que con 694 casos nuevos en las 24 horas previas, el condado de Suffolk ya sumaba un total de 40.483 casos de personas que han dado positivo para la prueba de Covid-19. De ese total, 3.961 han dado positivo para la prueba de anticuerpos, lo cual indica una exposición anterior al virus.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has announced over the last several days key initiatives including an investigation into the impacts of Covid-19 on children and an extension of the statute of limitations for victims of child sex abuse to file claims.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said the county now meets four of the seven criteria necessary for reopening, but will not be ready to do so by Friday, the day the PAUSE order ends.

Este viernes pasado el Supervisor de East Hampton Town, Peter Van Scoyoc, anunció que se abrirá un nuevo sitio de testeo para Covid-19 en el pueblo de East Hampton. Proyectado para entrar en funcionamiento el viernes 15 de mayo, el sitio estará ubicado en los estacionamientos de los campos deportivos de Pantigo Place.

Recent testing for the bacteria enterococcus in the East Hampton Town water bodies indicated generally low levels, though bodies frequently found to have medium or high bacteria levels continued to do so this week. 

A Covid-19 testing site is expected to begin operation at parking lots by the ball fields on Pantigo Place in East Hampton on Friday, May 15, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc announced on Friday. 

On a day when Suffolk's Covid-19 cases topped 40,000, county executive laments that World War II veterans, the most vulnerable to the virus, cannot be celebrated with public expressions of appreciation.

Man shall not live by bread alone. Alone in quarantine, however, man seems to live for bread, and East End bakeries are in overdrive working to satisfy that hunger and provide other small pleasures of the sweet variety.

David Falkowski, who has operated his Bridgehampton farm, Open Minded Organics, since 2003, has become a bit of a roadside philosopher during the Covid-19 pandemic, and we could all use a little of his sound and uplifting advice.

Health experts say it’s still too early to gauge with absolute certainty the impact of antibodies on Covid-19 and whether they will guard against reinfection long term, “but we have to hang our hat on something,” said Dr. George Dempsey of East Hampton Family Medicine.

The number of Covid-19 hospitalizations in Suffolk County decreased by 54 on Thursday. "Hopefully this means we're back on our downward trend," said Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone at his daily briefing. 

“The nursing home is the optimum feeding ground for this virus: vulnerable people in a congregate facility . . . where it can spread like wildfire through dry grass,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said. That is proving to be true on the East End and across the country.

The committee agreed at its first meeting last week to “make sure we don’t have a second wave” of Covid-19 infection “by opening too soon, by being careless when we open, by not looking at social distancing,” said Deputy Town Supervisor Sylvia Overby.

As East End hotels prepare to welcome summer guests in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the new must-have amenities will include face masks made from luxurious fabric, chic dispensers for hand sanitizer, body temperature scanners, aesthetically pleasing dividers to ensure people maintain six feet of social distance, and other items that allow people to feel safe and pampered.

With school closures extended through the end of the academic year, educators are beginning to consider what the opening of next year might look like.

The number of Covid-19 patients in Suffolk County hospitals dropped significantly Wednesday after a two-day rise, down 62, according to Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

In an effort to limit the number of people at East Hampton Village beaches, the village announced on Monday that beach parking permits will be required and no daily parking passes will be issued starting May 15.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has announced that state-regulated health insurers are now required to provide free mental health care for health care employees who are on the front lines of the fight against the virus.

For the second day in a row, the number of patients hospitalized with confirmed Covid-19 cases in Suffolk County rose, though the county still met a 14-day decline in overall hospitalizations based on a three-day rolling average of that figure.

There are now 813 people in hospitals across the county, down from a peak of 1,658 on April 11. However, there were 889 new Covid-19 cases reported by Sunday as of 3 p.m.

The number of Covid-19 hospitalizations in Suffolk County rose in the past 24 hours, marking an end to 13 straight days of declining hospitalizations, and possibly dealing a setback to plans to reopen after the New York on Pause mandate is lifted on May 15.

The Hampton Jitney is taking reservations in anticipation of restarting limited service for essential travel on Thursday and is running "training trips to practice new safety protocols."