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Friday, December 18, 2020
Vol. 95, No. 51
GUIDE TO WINTER
MARKOWITZ JOINS VISCARDI BOARD
COUNTY OK OKss NIFA REFINANCING DEBT
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Vaccine arrives; deaths rise BY R O S E WELDON AND ROBERT PELAEZ New York state’s largest health system, Northwell Health, made history on Monday by vaccinating the first person in the United States against COVID-19. In a Zoom conference with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Dr. Michelle Chester, director of employee health care, injected Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine into Sandra Lindsay of Port Washington, an intensive care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park. Northwell President and CEO Michael Dowling was also present. “Today is V-Day in our fight against COVID-19,” Dowling told the governor. “This truly is a historic day for science and humanity, one in which we here in New York and across the United States have been waiting for quite some time.” The system said Lindsay’s PHOTO BY SCOTT HEINS, COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF GOV. ANDREW CUOMO participation kick-started a long-anticipated vaccination deSandra Lindsay, a registered nurse and director of critical care at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, ployment program throughout receives the COVID-19 vaccine during a live conference with Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Continued on Page 53
N. Shore Hebrew Academy site hacked BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
tack by hackers that placed Nazi images on the North Shore Hebrew Academy High School’s The FBI and local police are website. Nassau County Police Cominvestigating an anti-Semitic at-
missioner Patrick Ryder told Newsday on Tuesday that the FBI had joined an investigation into the attack, which occurred on Monday, along with county police and the Lake Success police. The attack included anti-Semitic images, messages and songs, according to images circulated online.
Pictures and videos from StopAntisemitism.org, a nonprofit whose mission holds “antisemites accountable” and creates “consequences for bigoted actions” were posted Monday around 4:30 p.m. The video features the home page of the school’s website with Nazi soldiers marching in the background.
Screenshots of the website were then posted with anti-Semitic messages with slurs above a notification that the website was under construction. In the website’s “About Us” tab, there were more pictures of Nazi soldiers holding up swastikas and referring to the school as the “North Shore Concentration Camp.” Continued on Page 43
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