scholarly journals Implantable Cardioverter‐Defibrillator Shocks During COVID‐19 Outbreak

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selçuk Adabag ◽  
Patrick Zimmerman ◽  
Adam Black ◽  
Mohammad Madjid ◽  
Payam Safavi‐Naeini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
York City ◽  
Implantable Defibrillator ◽  
Implantable Defibrillators ◽  
Cardioverter Defibrillator ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Defibrillator Shock ◽  
Related Increase

Background COVID‐19 was temporally associated with an increase in out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrests, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. We sought to determine if patients with implantable defibrillators residing in areas with high COVID‐19 activity experienced an increase in defibrillator shocks during the COVID‐19 outbreak. Methods and Results Using the Medtronic (Mounds View, MN) Carelink database from 2019 and 2020, we retrospectively determined the incidence of implantable defibrillator shock episodes among patients residing in New York City, New Orleans, LA, and Boston, MA. A total of 14 665 patients with a Medtronic implantable defibrillator (age, 66±13 years; and 72% men) were included in the analysis. Comparing analysis time periods coinciding with the COVID‐19 outbreak in 2020 with the same periods in 2019, we observed a larger mean rate of defibrillator shock episodes per 1000 patients in New York City (17.8 versus 11.7, respectively), New Orleans (26.4 versus 13.5, respectively), and Boston (30.9 versus 20.6, respectively) during the COVID‐19 surge. Age‐ and sex‐adjusted hurdle model showed that the Poisson distribution rate of defibrillator shocks for patients with ≥1 shock was 3.11 times larger (95% CI, 1.08–8.99; P =0.036) in New York City, 3.74 times larger (95% CI, 0.88–15.89; P =0.074) in New Orleans, and 1.97 times larger (95% CI, 0.69–5.61; P =0.202) in Boston in 2020 versus 2019. However, the binomial odds of any given patient having a shock episode was not different in 2020 versus 2019. Conclusions Defibrillator shock episodes increased during the higher COVID‐19 activity in New York City, New Orleans, and Boston. These observations may provide insights into COVID‐19–related increase in cardiac arrests.

Hide and Seek: The Historian and Nineteenth-Century Social Accounting

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald A. DeBats
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
York City ◽  
Census Bureau ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Social Accounting ◽  
The Law

The problem of census undercounts, a familiar political issue for modern groups or instrumentalities that consider themselves underrepresented in the Census Bureau statistics, has only recently attracted attention from historians. While the modern “miss rate” is potentially high among some groups (the reason for the emphasis on the homeless in the 1990 census), the general rate of underenumeration appears to have diminished in recent censuses. The bureau acknowledges a net undercount of 5.6% of the population in 1940; the error declined gradually to an estimated 1.4% in 1980 (Burnham 1986; Anderson 1988; Edmondson 1988).Nineteenth-century censuses no doubt contained more serious errors. Although he did not have underenumeration specifically in mind, the administrator for the 1870 census said that “the censuses of 1850, 1860, and of 1870 are loaded with bad statistics. There are statistics in the census of 1870,I am sorry to say, where some of the results are false to the extent of one-half. They had to be published then, because the law called for it; but I took the liberty of branding them as untrustworthy and in some cases giving the reasons therefore at some length” (quoted in Sharpless and Shortridge 1975: 411). Strikingly modern quarrels surrounded the accuracy of the 1840 Boston and New Orleans censuses, while the errors in the 1870 enumeration of New York City and Philadelphia were sufficient to cause recounts of both cities (ibid. ; Knights 1971: 145).

From Upper Canal to Lower Manhattan: Memorialization and the Politics of Loss

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Stow
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
York City ◽  
Initial Response ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
French Quarter ◽  
Lower Manhattan ◽  
Productive Potential ◽  
Ease Of Access

The New Orleans Katrina Memorial is located at the upper end of Canal Street, an inexpensive and relatively short trolley car ride from the city's tourist hub in the French Quarter. Despite its ease of access, and close proximity to the more famous cemeteries to which tourists regularly make pilgrimage, the memorial is little visited and largely unknown, even to many of the city's own residents. In this it stands in stark contrast to the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan, which drew its millionth visitor less than four months after its opening on September 12, 2011. Recent work in political theory on memory, mourning, and memorialization—as well as Ancient Greek concerns about the same—point to the ways in which the manner of remembrance, grieving, and commemoration employed by a democratic polity help to shape political outcomes. In what follows, I trace the history and design of the New York City and New Orleans memorials to suggest the ways in which they embody and perpetuate national strategies of remembrance and forgetting, in which injustices perpetratedagainstthe polity are prioritized over injustices perpetratedwithinit. Drawing on John Bodnar's distinction between national and vernacular commemoration, I nevertheless conclude with a counter-intuitive suggestion: that while on anationallevel the public's relative ignorance of the Katrina Memorial is indeed indicative of a polity more concerned with injustices perpetrated against it than within it; on alocallevel the erection and subsequent forgetting of the Katrina Memorial is a manifestation of a mode ofvernacularmemory, mourning and commemoration with far more democratically-productive potential than its counterpart in New York City. In particular, I argue that it cultivates, and historicallyhascultivated, a more forward-looking, progressive, and polyphonic response to loss than the type of dominant national narratives embodied by the 9/11 Memorial. Whereas the latter continually replays the loss in ways that rob the polity of its capacity to move beyond its initial response, the former acknowledges and incorporates the loss while steeling the community for the challenges ahead.

Facilitating Pretrial Justice in New Orleans

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Wool
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
York City ◽  
Justice System ◽  
City Government ◽  
Pretrial Detention ◽  
The City

New Orleans in 2011 finds itself facing many of the same problems New York City faced in 1961 when the founders of the Vera Institute of Justice launched the Manhattan Bail Project: Too many people are held in pretrial detention who could be released without risk to public safety; the reliance on bail results in disparate outcomes based on financial ability; and the unnecessary detention of thousands of defendants each year imposes excessive costs on the city government and taxpayers, as well as on those needlessly detained. Vera is now working with New Orleans stakeholders to develop a comprehensive pretrial services system. Following in the footsteps of the Manhattan Bail Project, the work will create a carefully conceived and locally sensitive pretrial services system, one that will result in a fairer and more efficient criminal justice system and a safer community.

The New York City–New Orleans connection: Evidence from constraint ranking comparison

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Carmichael ◽  
Kara Becker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
York City ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Shared History ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Constraint Ranking

AbstractNew York City English (NYCE) and New Orleans English (NOE) demonstrate remarkable similarity for cities located 1300 miles apart. Though the question of whether these dialects feature a shared history has fueled papers on the subject (Berger, 1980; Labov, 2007), there remain a number of issues with the historical record that prevent researchers from arriving at a consensus (Eble, 2016). This article presents linguistic evidence from constraint ranking comparisons of variable nonrhoticity andbought-raising in comparable contemporary samples of NYCE and NOE speakers. Findings demonstrate strikingly similar systems for (r), but dissimilar systems forbought-raising. We examine the results of our analyses in the context of evidence from previous comparisons of NYCE and NOE, concluding that the resemblance between the two dialects is likely due to diffusion from New York City to New Orleans, occurring in the 19th century beforebought-raising emerged in either variety.

scholarly journals Urban rat races: spatial population genomics of brown rats ( Rattus norvegicus ) compared across multiple cities

2018 ◽  
Vol 285 (1880) ◽  
pp. 20180245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Combs ◽  
Kaylee A. Byers ◽  
Bruno M. Ghersi ◽  
Michael J. Blum ◽  
Adalgisa Caccone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Gene Flow ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
York City ◽  
Rattus Norvegicus ◽  
Animal Movement ◽  
Neutral Evolution ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
The Impact

Urbanization often substantially influences animal movement and gene flow. However, few studies to date have examined gene flow of the same species across multiple cities. In this study, we examine brown rats ( Rattus norvegicus ) to test hypotheses about the repeatability of neutral evolution across four cities: Salvador, Brazil; New Orleans, USA; Vancouver, Canada; and New York City, USA. At least 150 rats were sampled from each city and genotyped for a minimum of 15 000 genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms. Levels of genome-wide diversity were similar across cities, but varied across neighbourhoods within cities. All four populations exhibited high spatial autocorrelation at the shortest distance classes (less than 500 m) owing to limited dispersal. Coancestry and evolutionary clustering analyses identified genetic discontinuities within each city that coincided with a resource desert in New York City, major waterways in New Orleans, and roads in Salvador and Vancouver. Such replicated studies are crucial to assessing the generality of predictions from urban evolution, and have practical applications for pest management and public health. Future studies should include a range of global cities in different biomes, incorporate multiple species, and examine the impact of specific characteristics of the built environment and human socioeconomics on gene flow.

Travel to Cuba and up the Mississippi River

2019 ◽  
pp. 196-218
Author(s):  
Nancy E. Davis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Native American ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
York City ◽  
Indian Removal

The great New York City fire of December 1835 wiped out the Carneses’ warehouses and their incentive to promote their Chinese goods. Afong Moy’s manager took her on an extensive and strenuous trip to Cuba and up the Mississippi River in 1836, exposing her to many cultures—Spanish, Native American, Creole, and French—as well as the pernicious effects of slavery, Indian removal, and nativism. Her appearance in New Orleans, highlighted in a broadside, presented both the exotic oriental woman and the royal Chinese lady. A poem to “The Chinese Lady—Miss Afong Moy” by antislavery advocate Rev. William Tappan after he saw her in Cincinnati indicated his hope that she might see the Christian “sparkles of the light” and discard her heathen beliefs.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 792-794
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
York City ◽  
American Heart Association ◽  
American Heart ◽  
Heart Association ◽  
Medical Director ◽  
23Rd Street

The American Heart Association is holding its Annual Meeting this year in New Orleans, from October 22 through October 26, and headquarters will be the Jung Hotel. The Annual Scientific Sessions will be held on Saturday, October 22 through Monday, October 24. Those who wish to present a paper at one of the Scientific Sessions should submit an abstract, not exceeding 300 words, in duplicate, to the Medical Director, American Heart Association, 44 East 23rd Street, New York City 10, N.Y., not later than July 1, 1955.

scholarly journals “A Cheap Trafficking in Human Misery”: The Reverse Freedom Rides of 1962

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLIVE WEBB
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
York City ◽  
Port Authority ◽  
The Family ◽  
Freedom Rides

Shortly after 7 o'clock on the morning of 20 April 1962, Louis and Dorothy Boyd arrived at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City. The journey from their native New Orleans had taken forty-three hours. With the Boyds were their eight children, five girls and three boys aged between three and twelve years old. Between them the family carried their entire worldly possessions in three cardboard boxes and an old foot locker.

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