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Hosted by Mark Chiusano, produced by Amanda Fiscina, edited by Rita Ciolli. Season 3: Life Under Coronavirus - Long Island's Helpers A look into how Long Islanders are meeting the challenge of COVID-19. Each episode features a Long Islander talking about his or her experience with coronavirus, with...
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Life Under Coronavirus: 65+ but no vaccine in sight
The Newsday editorial board asked eligible older Long Islanders for their stories trying to obtain a vaccine --and we got more than 500. This episode...
Life Under Coronavirus: A conversation with the first vaccinated nurse
Sandra Lindsay, director of nursing for critical care at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, received the shot heard around the world in December. The...
Life Under Coronavirus: In Long Island COVID-19 ICUs
Long Island COVID-19 ICUs were sites of suffering patients and hard-at-work doctors and nurses this autumn, as hospitals in the region prepared for th...
Life Under Coronavirus: Rail yard spread
Back in the spring, Long Island Rail Road employee Ken Finegan and other Ronkonkoma Rail Yard workers were infected by the coronavirus -- before full...
Life Under Coronavirus: Jailed during the pandemic
During the height of coronavirus in New York, jails and prisons were struggling to keep the pandemic at bay. In Yaphank, a section of single cells was...
Life Under Coronavirus: Teaching college
College is going to look a lot different this fall on Long Island. Episode 34 of “Life Under Coronavirus” is a conversation with Theodore Koukounas, p...
Life Under Coronavirus: The zoo during a pandemic
The Bronx Zoo announced this week that it will be reopening at the end of July. But for months, it has been not visitors but just animals and essentia...
Life Under Coronavirus: A COVID-19 survivor shares his battle
Recovering from COVID-19 can be a slow process. Scott Krakower, a child psychiatrist and addiction specialist at Northwell, tested positive in April,...
Life Under Coronavirus: Some normalcy at Nautical Mile
Navigating the pandemic on the Nautical Mile in Freeport -- it’s an ongoing process for patrons this summer. For Episode 31 of “Life Under Coronavirus...
Life Under Coronavirus: Long Island's East End
How is the other half living on Long Island’s East End? Lots of canceled events, and lots of eating. For Episode 30 of “Life Under Coronavirus,” we c...
Life Under Coronavirus: The return of haircuts
When hair salons on Long Island started opening last week, there was plenty of hair to cut after months of quarantine. “Our phones have been ringing o...
Life Under Coronavirus: The show must go on
Broadway might be dark but the show must go on. Episode 28 of “Life Under Coronavirus” is an interview with actor Spencer Glass, originally from Merri...
Life Under Coronavirus: Protesting during a pandemic
Thousands of people packed into protests across the nation this weekend to decry the police killing of George Floyd. In one of the region’s densest ev...
Life Under Coronavirus: About those beach visits
Long Island officials opened the summer season by blocking nonresidents from beaches -- but city dwellers are welcome at state parks built or made acc...
Life Under Coronavirus: Doctor lost to COVID-19
When coronavirus hit, Dr. James Mahoney of Freeport was about to retire. Instead, he continued serving public hospital patients in Brooklyn, until he...
Life Under Coronavirus: The cleaners
An afternoon with the cleaning staff at the Cohalan Court Complex in Suffolk County, Episode 24 of “Life Under Coronavirus” follows cleaners who are b...
Life Under Coronavirus: Books and bookstores
Selling puzzles in the bookstore window, a new e-commerce site, and why “Dune” and “The Great Gatsby” are big sellers: snapshots of the new normal for...
Life Under Coronavirus: The contact tracers
To stop the spread of COVID-19 and reopen for business, Long Island needs more contact tracing. Episode 22 of “Life Under Coronavirus” is an interview...
Life Under Coronavirus: The modern monetary theory guru
As Congress appropriates billions to combat coronavirus, more eyes are turning to modern monetary theory, which suggests that it’s ok for governments...
Life Under Coronavirus: Marry now, party later
Long Island couples are rethinking weddings in the time of coronavirus. Some have decided to “marry now, party later,” says wedding photographer Stace...
Life Under Coronavirus: 88 and in a retirement community
Nursing homes across Long Island have been hard hit by the coronavirus, with families becoming frantic and facilities closing themselves off to the ou...
Life Under Coronavirus: Trucking through
Long Island’s roads look different these days. Just ask a truck driver.
Episode 18 of “Life Under Coronavirus” is an interview with John Iula,...
Life Under Coronavirus: Main Street 2020
What happens to a bustling Main Street in the age of COVID-19? Episode 17 of “Life Under Coronavirus” is an interview with Eileen Tyznar, president of...
Life Under Coronavirus: Ana Flores, immigration organizer
Immigrant Long Islanders are being hard-hit by the pandemic. Episode 16 of “Life Under Coronavirus” is an interview with Make the Road New York organi...
Life Under Coronavirus: Baldwin schools, at a distance
School looks different now with the move to distance learning. Episode 15 of “Life Under Coronavirus” checks in with Baldwin superintendent Shari Camh...
Life Under Coronavirus: Helping the homeless in a shutdown world
For Long Island’s homeless population, hunkering down indoors isn’t an easy option. Episode 14 of “Life Under Coronavirus” follows Dwayne Brown, outre...
Life Under Coronavirus: Seasons cut short for senior athletes
Baseball might be missing right now, but some Long Islanders are doing what they can to keep it alive. Rob Weissheier, first baseman and senior at Hof...
Life Under Coronavirus: The National Guard physician assistant
Major Warren Sheprow of the New York Army National Guard once cared for soldiers on a remote forward operating base in Iraq, but now he faces a new ch...
Life Under Coronavirus: Comforting way to cope
The coronavirus pandemic is pushing Long Islanders to solitary, outdoor pursuits: like bird watching. Episode 11 of Newsday Opinion’s “Life Under Coro...
Life Under Coronavirus: On the ambulances
Volunteer EMTs are many Long Islanders’ first interaction with the healthcare system. That’s a point of pride and concern during the coronavirus pande...
Life Under Coronavirus: Future of medicine
Stony Brook University Hospital is at the heart of Long Island’s fight against COVID-19. Episode 9 of “Life Under Coronavirus” is a tour of some quiet...
Life Under Coronavirus: The funeral homes
The coronavirus crisis is hitting funeral homes across Long Island. For Rich D’Andrea of Raynor & D’Andrea Funeral Homes, that means an inundation of...
Life Under Coronavirus: 'Three South Strong,' the COVID-19 nurses
Three South was the first section of Mather Hospital set up for COVID-19 patients. This episode follows two members of that unit: Kathleen Long, nurse...
Life Under Coronavirus: Feeding the front lines
Long Island restaurants might be down, but they’re still cooking -- and sending food to hardworking hospital staff. This episode follows two eateries...
Life Under Coronavirus: Dr. Lina Miyakawa, ventilator expert
New York needs ventilators, and quick. Lina Miyakawa of Mount Sinai Beth Israel is one of the doctors who operate those lifesaving breathing machines,...
Life Under Coronavirus: Long Island's mask makers
Doctors and nurses are scrambling for masks, and Long Islanders are trying to help -- by making them. Hicksville linen rental company The Finishing To...
Life Under Coronavirus: Steve Bellone, Suffolk County executive
The coronavirus epicenter is firmly in New York, with White House officials citing Long Island specifically as a worrisome problem spot in the nation....
Life Under Coronavirus: Betsy Glazer, Long Beach Soup Kitchen
Betsy Glazer, a volunteer at the Long Beach Soup Kitchen, is helping to feed people despite the coronavirus threat. The soup kitchen is staying open –...
Life Under Coronavirus: Rabbi Levi Gurkov
Rabbi Levi Gurkov, director of Chabad of Oceanside, has been delivering supplies to elders and adapting Jewish religious traditions in the face of COV...
Long Island Divided Chapter 4: Epilogue
A conversation between two Long Islanders — one black, one white — with different reactions to Newsday’s series on the practices of real estate agents...