Dr. Ashwin Vasan, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene commissioner, presented on monkeypox at a City Council town hall on Monday, July 18. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Monkeypox Is Here Hundreds in New York City have now likely come down with a fever and body aches not caused by COVID-19. They may have suffered... News 21 Jul 2022 | 04:14
Dr. Drew Weissman and Dr. Katalin Kariko in Manhattan. Photo courtesy of Feinstein Institutes of Medical Research The Message of Messenger RNA They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round, Ira Gershwin reminded us. But that was nothing... News 10 Jun 2022 | 03:11
Mayor Bill de Blasio under the blue whale on a tour of the new vaccine site at the American Museum of Natural History on April 23, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Beyond the Blue Whale There is a big caveat hidden in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s declaration that New York City would fully reopen this summer. “Right... News 01 May 2021 | 10:44
Ronnie Moore of Allure Specialty Pharmacy provides a vaccine to Melissa Johnson-Bowen, director of Project FIND’s Hamilton Senior Center. Photo courtesy of Project FIND Project FIND Hosts Pop-Up Vaccination Clinic Project FIND hosted a vaccine pop-up clinic for nearly 80 seniors, staff, and caretakers in partnership with Allure Pharmacy... News 11 Mar 2021 | 10:33
Medical members of the National Guard prepare Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines on February 24, 2021 at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, one of the New York State-FEMA mass vaccination sites. Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Vaccines and Allergies As of this writing, New York state has administered more than three million first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, which means... News 03 Mar 2021 | 09:26
Mayor Bill de Blasio tours a pop-up vaccination site at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem on February 27, 2021. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Vaccines, Equity and the Economy Something has been missing from our conversation about equity and ending the pandemic. Or, if it is easier to visualize,... News 27 Feb 2021 | 07:52
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer (left) and New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul (right) visit the Javits Center COVID-19 Vaccine Site on February 10, 2021. Photo: Sgt. Sebastian Rothwyn / New York National Guard Vaccine Hunger Games There are two types of New Yorkers. Those waiting to be eligible for their COVID-19 vaccine and the other 4.5 million adults... News 19 Feb 2021 | 03:23
The Armory set up for vaccinations. Photo courtesy of NewYork-Presbyterian Health Matters Vaccine Drive at the Armory Andres Nieto has a rallying cry for these hard times. “We want to achieve heard immunity in Northern Manhattan,” he explained,... News 06 Feb 2021 | 04:14
At the opening of a New York State COVID-19 vaccination site at St. Luke’s Church in the Bronx, January 26, 2021. Photo: Don Pollard / Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Will We Finally Have Enough Vaccine? It is surely hard in our year-old COVID-19 crisis to hear signals about our future amidst all the noise of the day. Will... News 30 Jan 2021 | 03:33
Injection site. Photo courtesy 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
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