Nassau Herald 12-03-2020

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Nassau

FIVE TowNS Infections as of Nov. 30

2,847

Infections as of Nov. 23 2,698

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Vol. 20 No. 49

St. John’s cares for patients and staff including the first recorded case in Queens, in March. In October, as the positivity rate rose, Far At times, reportRockaway was part ing on the coronaviof the state’s rus pandemic has restrictive red zone been reduced to cluster, but early in numbers — the N ove m b e r, w i t h number of cases, restrictions lifted, it positivity rates, the was designated a number of deaths. yellow zone. At hospitals, includ“We know that ing St. John’s Episthis was an unpreccopal Hospital, in edented and chalFar Rockaway, there lenging time for all are many people hospitals throughbehind those numout the world,” said bers, from the Re n e e H a s t i c k administrators who vice presiRENEE haSTICk- Motes, run the facility to dent of exter nal the doctors and MoTES affairs at St. John’s. nurses who treat V.P. of external affairs, “At the height of patients. the pandemic, team St. John’s Episcopal St. John’s, a 257members put bed facility that Hospital together a Covid-19 also serves the Five report on six differTowns, has more than 1,500 ent critical areas: communicaemployees and has treated more tions, resource management, than 1,000 Covid-19 patients, Continued on page 10

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

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e can’t talk of taking care of people if we don’t take care of our team members.

Courtesy Hewlett Lawrence Soccer Club

ThE hEwlETT lawRENCE Soccer Club completed an eight-week fall season without any interruptions. Ian Geraghty, left, of the boy’s under-18 team, with his teammate Osmar Marcos.

In spite of coronavirus, soccer club gets its kicks

HLSC wrapped up safe season in November By MaTThEw FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com

While the coronavirus pandemic has curtailed youth sports across the country, the Hewlett Lawrence Soccer Club managed to overcome the challenges the spreading virus presented and complete its fall season. The nonprofit HLSC, for

players ranging in age from 4 to 18, is part of the Long Island Junior Soccer League, and has been in operation since 1970. Its eight-week season began on Sept. 8 and ended on Nov. 14. David Friedman, an HLSC board member and the president of the Hewlett-Woodmere Business Association, described his role this season

as the Covid-19 prevention officer and field marshal, making sure players, coaches and parents were wearing masks and social distancing. “I stood there at the gate giving out free masks to those who didn’t have it,” Friedman said. “We also gave out hand sanitizer to players and parents.” The club received Continued on page 10

Our COvid-19 traCker With the Covid-19 test positivity rate rising across the country, the Herald is adding a weekly coronavirus tracker to the upper-left corner of our front page to help you gauge what’s happening in your area from week to week. the number is an aggregate of the communities that this newspaper covers. data is obtained from the nassau County Covid-19 dashboard, which provides the total number of cases reported in an area since the start of the pandemic, and is updated regularly.


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