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'Something Is Biting Me': Shark Attack Survivor Recounts Harrowing Injury At NY Beach 'Something Is Biting Me': Shark Attack Survivor Recounts Harrowing Injury At NY Beach
'Something Is Biting Me': Shark Attack Survivor Recounts Harrowing Injury At NY Beach It's a tale not many people can tell: surviving a real-life shark attack, but that’s exactly what happened to New Yorker Lyudmila Emag. The 47-year-old  Brooklyn resident was swimming with friends on Long Island coast about 20 yards off Fire Island on Tuesday, July 4, when she felt something bite into her upper left thigh. “I screamed to my friends, ‘something is biting me.’ I felt like I was in a trap, it was holding onto me,” Emag said at a press conference at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore on Thursday, July 20. Fortunately, she managed to get her hands inside the shark’s …

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by Michael Mashburn
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COVID-19: 1,400 Northwell Employees Fired For Refusing To Get Vaccine COVID-19: 1,400 Northwell Employees Fired For Refusing To Get Vaccine
Covid-19: 1,400 Northwell Employees Fired For Refusing To Get Vaccine New York’s largest private healthcare provider got a little smaller due to employees unwilling to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Northwell Health announced that upwards of 1,400 employees “had to exit” on Monday, Oct. 4 after they chose to remain unvaccinated against the virus, a Northwell spokesman announced. With the ousted employee, Northwell employees are now 100 percent vaccinated, officials said. “Northwell regrets losing any employee under such circumstances, but as health care professionals and members of the largest health care provider in the state, we understand our unique re…

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by Zak Failla