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These days, summer in New York means fun in the sun — and blood in the water. There were 13 reports of shark bites recorded on Long Island in just the past two years, a disturbing trend experts say is here to stay even with New Yorker’s 1 in 4 million chance of getting nibbled on by a sea predator. “It’s a new norm that people are familiar with now — shark interaction occurring on the beaches here on Long Island specifically,” Frank Quevedo, an environmental scientist and executive director of the South Fork Natural History Museum, told The Post....

During a portion of an interview with NBC New York affiliate NBC4 host David Ushery set to air on Sunday’s broadcast of “The Debrief” that was released on Friday, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell stated that there is “an uptick” and “trends in migrant crime that [are] hurting our city a little bit” like robberies purse snatching committed on mopeds, pickpocketing on transit and streets, and “mob-like” behavior in some retail locations. And that “we’re seeing these trends start to get bigger and bigger, and it’s adding to our everyday New Yorkers’ crime, and we’re trying to put a...

Former Obama official, MSNBC medical contributor Dr. Kavita Patel said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports” that a rise in COVID cases meant it was time to bring out masks. Partial transcript as follows: DIAZ-BALART: If you’ve noticed more of your friends, neighbors, loved ones are testing positive for COVID, you’re not alone. According to the CDC, COVID-19 hospitalizations are up 12 percent from last week and while we’re nowhere near previous levels, it’s still raising concerns. Joining us now with more is Dr. Kavita Patel who served as a White House policy director in the Obama Administration. She is...

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the new BA.2 variant of COVID will cause an “uptick” of cases which might cause a return to requirements for wearing masks indoors. Fauci said, “Obviously, there is concern that we are seeing an uptick in cases, as I mentioned over the last couple of weeks, that this is not unexpected, that you’re going to see an uptick when you pull back on the mitigation methods. If you look at the CDC calculation with their new metrics, it’s clear that most of...

The other day we noted that the US had encountered signs gleaned from wastewater samples taken across the country that COVID cases might be on the rise after weeks of steady declines that recently prompted authorities to start dialing back pandemic-era requirements. But China and the US aren’t the only places where case numbers have started to rise. A surge in coronavirus infections in western Europe has experts and health authorities on alert for another wave of the pandemic in the US even as most of the country has done away with restrictions after a sharp decline in cases. Experts...

Sunset Park in Brooklyn is seeing an “uptick” in coronavirus cases — with 228 people testing positive for COVID-19 in the past two weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. The mayor said the pocket of positive cases was found through “hyperlocal testing” by the city’s Test and Trace Corps. “It’s over a very limited period of time, it’s a very limited number of cases,” de Blasio said at his daily press briefing. “We now have a warning light. We have a sign there’s something going on we want to know more about.”

Could someone post an understandable discription of the "Uptick Rule"? Been trying to get my mind around it, but I could use some examples.