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New York overwhelmed by the epidemic

The 2019-2020 school year is over for 1.1 million schoolchildren, from kindergarten to 12th grade.

By Maurin Picard

Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York.
Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York. BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP

New York

The news that all parents dreaded, in New York, fell on Saturday morning by email: on the orders of Mayor Bill de Blasio, and after consultation with the very media doctor Anthony Fauci, eminent immunologist and pillar of the task force set up to fight against the coronavirus, the doors of the city’s schools, temporarily closed on March 16, will not reopen until September. 2019-2020 school year ended for 1.1 million schoolchildren, from kindergarten to 12th grade. Remote instruction will continue, with the mayor promising to send “before the end of this month »240,000 computers or tablets to poor households.

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This dreaded move immediately sparked the fury of Governor Andrew Cuomo, at daggers drawn with Bill de Blasio. Urged, like President Donald Trump in the White House, to reprime the economic pump, Cuomo had loudly opposed

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