Injection site. Photo coutesy of Stephan Russo A Chase for the Elusive COVID-19 Vaccine New York City lags far behind in the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. The most recent data show that the city had used... News 19 Jan 2021 | 12:42
Administering the COVID vaccine at the Javits Center, January 13, 2021. Photo: Don Pollard/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Fighting to Find the Vaccine If several days of fruitless phone calls have convinced you that your chance of getting an appointment at a Manhattan site... News 14 Jan 2021 | 02:02
Mayor Bill de Blasio at City Hall on Tuesday, December 22, 2020. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. A Slow Vaccine Rollout At this rate, it will take nearly two years or more to vaccinate New York. The arrival of the vaccines – not one, but two... News 24 Dec 2020 | 01:29
Mayor Bill de Blasio went to NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst in Queens on December 16, 2020 to observe vaccinations for health care workers. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. Vaccines and Mixed Messaging Hope is not just around the corner. Public officials should make that clearer, says Professor Nina Schwalbe, before expectations... News 19 Dec 2020 | 11:11
Sandra Lindsay, a registered nurse and Director of Critical Care at Northwell Health in Queens, receives the COVID-19 vaccine during a live conference with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on December 14, 2020. Photo: Scott Heins/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo The Vaccine Arrives The vaccine arrived in New York City Monday just as the coronavirus surged to dangerous levels, creating yet another new... Home 14 Dec 2020 | 11:26
Mayor Bill de Blasio tours the Pandemic Response Lab at the Alexandria Center for Life Science. Photo: Ed Reed Vaccinating New York City It is a truism in public health that vaccines don’t end epidemics. Vaccinations end epidemics. As 2020 dwindles down to... Home 06 Dec 2020 | 05:45
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a coronavirus (COVID-19) briefing at the White House on April 22, 2020. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) Verifying Valuable Vaccines Suppose they made a vaccine and no one would take it? A raft of recent polls show that’s not impossible. In fact, if Operation... News 24 Jul 2020 | 09:47
Vaccines: They're Not Just for Kids More than 2,000 New Yorkers die every year of the influenza virus and its complications. In the U.S., the flu combined with... News 10 Oct 2019 | 02:43