May 26, 2009 12:30 pm US/Pacific
2 More Dead From H1N1 Virus In NYC
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A young girl wears a mask outside New York City's Elmhurst Hospital, where the emergency room was flooded by patients with flu-like symptoms on May 18, 2009.
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New York City's health commissioner said two more deaths have been linked to the swine flu.
Dr. Thomas Frieden said Tuesday a 41-year-old woman from Queens and a 34-year-old man from Brooklyn have died -- for a total of four since the outbreak started last month.
Earlier on Tuesday, 20 city schools reopened a week after an assistant principal died.
The schools include Intermediate School 238 in Hollis, Queens, where assistant principal Mitchell Wiener became the city's first death from the virus.
Over the weekend, a woman in her 50s died, becoming the city's second swine flu victim and the nation's 11th.
Meanwhile, hundreds of New York City students returned to classes on Tuesday as at least 20 schools reopened their doors.
At PS 19 in Corona, it was back to school after swine flu fears shut
down a cluster of Queens schools and some on Long Island, New Jersey
and Manhattan. Despite efforts to sanitize all facilities, parents
still have lots of questions.
Alma Renta brought her five-year-old Brauglio back to kindergarten after a week off.
"Why was it closed? To prevent the flu from spreading I know, but I
hope it was cleaned up," Renta said.
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein was at the school in Corona, welcoming students back.
"Schools have been cleaned, the purpose of this was to give children a
chance to have time off to stop the spread of the H1N1 virus, to stop
it from spreading rapidly," said Klein.
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