{"id":86,"date":"2025-03-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/?p=86"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:51:49","slug":"ny1-queens-councilmember-lynn-schulman-reflects-on-fifth-anniversary-of-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/2025\/03\/02\/ny1-queens-councilmember-lynn-schulman-reflects-on-fifth-anniversary-of-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"NY1 &#8211; Queens Councilmember Lynn Schulman reflects on fifth anniversary of COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">By Cheryl Wills and Dana Pere<\/mark><\/p>\n<p>Queens Councilmember Lynn Schulman says, although she was not in the City Council in 2020, she still worked on COVID initiatives to help minimize the spread of variants.<\/p>\n<p>Schulman emphasized the importance of getting vaccinated and described how misinformation can be dangerous for one\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>She discussed the lessons learned from the pandemic that will help the city prevent a similar situation from happening again.<\/p>\n<p>Schulman also talked about how the city\u2019s Department of Health is tackling data now that it\u2019s separated from federal partners.<\/p>\n<p>Link to story: <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/in-focus-shows\/2025\/03\/01\/councilmember-schulman-on-fifth-anniversary-of-pandemic\">https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/in-focus-shows\/2025\/03\/01\/councilmember-schulman-on-fifth-anniversary-of-pandemic<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cheryl Wills and Dana Pere<\/p>\n<p>Queens Councilmember Lynn Schulman says, although she was not in the City Council in 2020, she still worked on COVID initiatives to help minimize the spread of variants.<\/p>\n<p>Schulman emphasized the importance of getting vaccinated and described how misinformation can be dangerous for one\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>She discussed the lessons learned from the pandemic that will help the city prevent a similar situation from happening again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/2025\/03\/02\/ny1-queens-councilmember-lynn-schulman-reflects-on-fifth-anniversary-of-covid-19-pandemic\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}