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Area experts share latest on monkeypox Northwell Health to decrease the rate of monkeypox transmission are consistent with current public The Biden administration health guidelines. Guidelines declared monkeypox a public were adopted early, including health emergency on Aug. 4 in early testing of people with comhopes of accelerating a response parable symptoms and vaccinaand recognition of the transmis- tion for those at high risk — gay sion of the disease, and bisexual men in addition to helpwho engage in sex ing mobilize more with other men. resources for the However, experts outbreak. at Northwell stated The declaration that just because a should last 90 days. community is Monkeypox is rareaffected by somely fatal, and no thing does not mean deaths have been that the community re por ted in the is predisposed or United States so far. more likely to transAccording to the mit the disease. World Health Orga“ We h ave n o nization, the disease SARAH KATE ELLIS excuse, coming out spreads through CEO, GLAAD of a two-year Covid various ways, pandemic, to not be including casual able to get monkeypox under concontact, and sometimes through trol.” Dr. Eric Cioe-Pena, director sexual transmission among gay of Global Health at Northwell and bisexual men. Some of the Health, said. “In terms of infecfirst outbreaks are linked to a pair tiousness, if Covid is a Ferrari, of raves held in Spain and Bel- monkeypox is a bicycle. It’s much gium. harder to get.” The disease is typically conMonkeypox requires much fined to Central and West Africa, more intimate contact than Covid. where people are affected by con- It is not transmittable when sitsuming bushmeat — wild animals ting in a car with someone or hunted for human consumption. being with someone in an office. The strategies in place at CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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ANTOINE MCLEAN TEACHES kids in the program — including his son, Antoine Jr. — how to handle and operate drones safely.
A drone’s-eye view of history Historical society uses devices to peer into past By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
Oyster Bay residents will soon be noticing something new in the sky over the coming weeks. Drones are giving children an opportunity to learn about both a new technology and the history of the hamlet. The Oyster Bay Historical Society, whose headquarters are in the Earle Wightman House, at 20 Summit St., has teamed up with Antoine McLean, an actor, producer and drone enthusiast from Freeport, to teach kids ages 8 to 18 how to use drones to learn more about their community. The society, a nonprofit, was
founded in 1960 to preserve Oyster Bay’s history, and has over 16,000 photos, documents, ledgers and articles of clothing. According to Denice Sheppard, the organization’s director since 2017, the drone project originated when she saw some of McLean’s work. “I saw it as a way to introduce and encourage younger people to learn more about the history of Oyster Bay,” Sheppard explained. “I was thinking of how to engage kids, how to reach them, and I thought that this is something new that certain kids might be interested in.” The program has two parts. First, children CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
e’re not getting the vaccines and medicines that we need quickly enough.