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Prince William says becoming a father was “one of the scariest” moments of his life and brought back memories of his late mother, Princess Diana. The Duke of Cambridge reportedly reflected on transitioning into parenthood for the upcoming BBC One documentary “Football, Prince William and Our Mental Health,” telling former soccer player Marvin Sordell in a candid conversation that going...

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The nation’s mental health care system is struggling to continue treating patients in spite of the coronavirus

The COVID-19 pandemic has likely brought many changes to how you live your life, and with it uncertainty, altered daily routines, financial pressures and social isolation. You may worry about getting sick, how long the pandemic will last and what the future will bring. Information overload, rumors and misinformation can make your life feel out of control and make it…

Gov. Cuomo announced that schools will remain closed for the rest of the academic school year, and a decision about summer school will be made in late May.

New York City subways will be shut down for four hours overnight, each night, to allow the MTA to disinfect every single car on every single train in its fleet, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday. The move comes days after the governor described the deteriorating transit conditions as a “disgusting” affront to the essential workers who use trains to get…

As health experts continue to learn more about the coronavirus, some are discovering that there may lingering health effects after people recover from COVID-19. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

To help protect essential workers, NYC subways will shut down between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. each night to be thoroughly disinfected. New York state has seen its daily death and hospitalization rates hit monthly lows in the past week. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

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Mount Sinai Health System announced Thursday launch of the Mount Sinai Center for Stress, Resilience and Personal Growth, a first-of-its-kind initiative in North America designed to address the psychosocial impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and the lives of frontline health care providers at Mount Sinai. “Mount Sinai’s doctors, nurses, trainees, students, and clinicians and support staff are...

The subways will close overnight to allow for cleaning, and the MTA will launch their Essential Connector Program, which will provide transportation with buses, for-hire-vehicles, or compliant “dollar vans” at no cost to essential workers from 1 am to 5 am.

New COVID-19 hospitalizations in New York state averaged under 1,000 a day for the first time this month Tuesday and stayed there Wednesday, the latest sign of slowly decreasing pressure on the health care system. In the city, emergency rooms are less crushed. A week ago, New York City hospitals were admitting more than 200 virus patients a day. That…

Rodrigo Saval spent the past 54 days at Mount Sinai Hospital, nearly half of which he was intubated, after he contracted the coronavirus. He was admitted on March 7 when New York only had dozens of confirmed COVID-19 cases.

The MTA interim president is calling on the city to provide police at all 41 end of line stations and the mayor talked about putting more homeless people in hotels. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s office confirmed that the governor will meet with the president at the White House on Thursday. The meeting comes as the state nears 7,000 coronavirus deaths but officials believe the peak in cases may have passed.

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Thousands of people lined the streets of Williamsburg for a funeral of a local rabbi, a gathering that brought the NYPD and Mayor Bill de Blasio to Brooklyn to break it up, with the mayor saying the city has “zero tolerance” for such large events at this time. Katherine Creag has the latest.

Three months after the coronavirus pandemic hit America, the United States on Tuesday topped a stunning 1 million cases — and that’s a conservative estimate. New York state will pass 300,000 confirmed cases on its own this week — again, possibly orders of magnitude less than reality. Yet in this unprecedented battle, there has been undeniable progress — and governors…

NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.