Thana Alexa had it all mapped out. 

Her new album, ONA, was set to launch her solo career to new heights. She was featured — with her husband, drummer Antonio Sánchez — on the cover of DownBeat magazine. Then the coronavirus put her nationwide tour on hold, along with countless other gigs around the world.

But out of that chaos came another opportunity: co-producing Live From Our Living Rooms, the world’s first fully livestreamed jazz festival.

Coronavirus continues to spread as numbers keep rising in New York State.  Every single county has at least one case.  There are more than 92 thousand known cases in New York State with the death toll now topping 23-hundred as of Thursday.   

The latest set of models show coronavirus cases peaking in 7 to 30 days. Governor Cuomo explains why it’s such a wide range.

“It depends on how that model rates how effective social distancing is” 

The number of coronavirus cases keeps climbing with New York State now at nearly 84 thousand with more than half of those in New York City.  There are more than 19-hundred coronavirus deaths in the state as of Wednesday. Governor Andrew Cuomo is now closing down all New York City playgrounds.

 “I warned people that if if they didn’t stop the density and the games in the playgrounds.  You can’t play basketball.  Uh You can’t come in contact with each other.”

 

Four New Jersey officials, East Orange Mayor Ted Green, Orange Mayor Dwayne Warren, Irvington Mayor Tony Vauss, and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, have joined forces to announce a series of new measures to combat the spread of COVID-19.

The first of those measures is a complete seven-day lockdown. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka says all non-emergency travel between them will be barred with joint police units patrolling their shared borders. Violators will be issued summonses and could face legal action.