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HERALD Gazette Using telemedicine to help patients
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Crisis means nonstop work for Tom Suozzi knows many people who are sick or have died. He has donated masks and By his own account, U.S. other personal protective equipRep. Tom Suozzi is extremely ment to a variety of hospitals, busy. There’s his work in Wash- including Glen Cove Hospital. ington, where he fights for He has helped hand out donated funding for New York, and his food to families in the communimany local responsibilities in ty, and at the Glen Cove High Glen Cove, too. School Food Pantry. During the coroHe even had his navirus pandemic, reading of the chilthere is another dren’s book “Chillevel of urgency to dren of the Forest,” constituents’ by Elsa Beskow, requests. Some need recorded for local Suozzi’s help comlibraries, including pleting applications t h e O y s t e r B ay for small-business Library. loans. Others aren’t He is an effective re c e iv i n g t h e i r leader during the unemployment coronavirus panchecks. One constitd e m i c, h e s a i d , uent said he had an because his life expeidea for a drug, and TOM SUOZZI riences have prewanted help reachpared him for the ing the Federal Drug U.S. Representative challenge. Suozzi is Administration. an accountant and Another was stuck on a cruise an attorney, and was Glen Cove’s ship and asked Suozzi to help mayor and Nassau County exechim get home. utive. He also ran unsuccessfully His family, another important for governor, losing by a large part of Suozzi’s life, has been margin, but no matter. A selftouched by Covid-19. His father- described optimist, he said the in-law, Michael Wrotniak Jr., experience was a good one, died of the virus last month, and because he learned how the state his mother-in-law, Carol, had it, too, but survived. Suozzi said he CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
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Courtesy Pamela Marie Young Osman
PAMELA MARIE YOUNG Osman, 59, of Glen Cove, is graduating from Nassau Community College with a associate’s degree in disability studies.
North Shore college students wrap up their spring semester BY JENNIFER CORR jcorr@liherald.com
Many college students could not have imagined finishing their semester behind computer screens at home, let alone graduating there. “To be able to walk across that stage and shake your professor’s hand, shake the dean of your college’s hand . . . it’s a really big thing,” said Danielle Sugar, 22, a University of Delaware graduate from East
Norwich. “Yes, the university is trying to do a virtual celebration, and families are trying to make a big deal out of it, but it stinks. It will never be the same feeling of having your name called and actually feeling like I did this.” Sugar, like many other students, had lots of plans for her spring semester. A prephysician assistant major, she had enrolled in an elective anatomy course in which she would be able to dissect cadav-
ers. Her extracurricular activities included a membership in the Pi Beta Phi sorority and her role as the Pre Physician Assistant Club president. In early March, the coronavirus pandemic forced students to return home and continue their studies remotely. Sugar has had to work from home for the first time since high school, which wasn’t too much of a hardship, since she CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
y whole objective during the coronavirus has been about getting money for New York.