Children under five years of age in the New York City public school system are still subject to 'close-contact restrictions' including mask wearing, a bizarre break from the rest of the city where there is no indoor mask mandate even as medical experts and virologists widely agree that the risk of children becoming seriously ill or dying from Covid is extremely low.
Past performers include Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, and since the 1980s, comedians have provided entertainment, making gentle and not-so-gentle fun, or 'roasting,' the centerpiece of the dinner.
There are smatterings of orange and yellow counties elsewhere in.
By mid-April, the orange had spread to include 10 upstate counties, with a penumbra of yellow around them.