Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan issue health guidance ahead of the holiday season. City Hall, Tuesday, December 20, 2022. Photo: Caroline Willis/Mayoral Photography Office Bypassing the Bivalent Booster If the Great City were granted one holiday wish it should probably be this: All we want for Christmas is for everyone to... News 28 Dec 2022 | 09:19
Mayor Eric Adams receiving his second COVID-19 booster shot at City Hall on September 20, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Vaccine Angst For a brief moment we greeted those vaccines as our salvation from COVID-19, scrambling for appointments and celebrating... News 27 Nov 2022 | 10:34
Emergency field hospital tents in Central Park across from Mount Sinai in March 2020. Photo: Nancy Ploeger An Unhappy Anniversary for COVID-19 The anniversary of an event that has killed some 15 million people around the world, so far, would seem to cry out for a... News 11 Nov 2022 | 07:04
Dr. Brian Elbel, professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Photo courtesy of NYU Langone Health The COVID Endgame The end of the pandemic is in sight, the World Health Organization said last week, but only if we keep doing what needs to... News 17 Sep 2022 | 12:35
Governor Kathy Hochul provides COVID-19 update and gets a booster shot on September 7, 2022. Photo: Don Pollard / Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Anything But Normal Governor Kathy Hochul said she wants New Yorkers to feel like life is returning to normal. So to help, she lifted the requirement... News 09 Sep 2022 | 10:52
Gov. Kathy Hochul provides an update on Monkeypox during a briefing on August 3, 2022. Photo: Don Pollard/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Misinformation and Monkeypox To start with, there is that name, Monkeypox. Just say the name and miscommunication has begun. “It got its name, monkey pox,... News 05 Aug 2022 | 02:38
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
Mayor Eric Adams briefs the media regarding a boating accident on the Hudson River on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office The Summer of Our Discontent If COVID-19, job losses, inflation, more COVID-19, gun violence, soaring rents, shrinking 401k’s, jobs going begging, more... News 13 Jul 2022 | 05:20
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine handing out meals, COVID tests, masks and sanitizers in Morningside Heights, June 2, 2022. Photo: Mark D. Levine on Twitter Where is My Paxlovid? Her healthy, 29-year-old nephew in Michigan got Paxlovid when he came down with COVID-19. So did several of her friends,... News 03 Jun 2022 | 03:42
COVID testing site on the Upper West Side. Photo: Alexis Gelber A New COVID Gap Way more New Yorkers are being infected with COVID-19 these days than the official numbers report, and, compounding the challenge,... News 27 May 2022 | 01:08
Dr. Dave Chokshi at a COVID briefing. Photo courtesy of Dr. Dave Chokshi A Concern Over COVID ‘Collective Amnesia’ Debra Fraser-Howze says we must not go back to a pre-pandemic normal. “We died in normal,” said Fraser-Howze, the legendary... News 12 May 2022 | 10:32
Crowd outside of the Met Gala on Monday, May 2, 2022, which New York City Mayor Eric Adams attended. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office COVID, COVID Everywhere If it feels as if everyone around you has been getting COVID-19, that is probably because, epidemiologically speaking, they... News 08 May 2022 | 08:36
A positive home test. Photo: Michael Oreskes The Case of the COVID Chronicler It had to happen eventually, right? I tell myself that, in any case. After more than two years of chronicling COVID-19 in... News 15 Apr 2022 | 02:59
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine giving out “COVID Safety Bags” at 125th Street and St. Nicholas Ave. on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Photo courtesy of Office of Mark Levine Is This the Last Wave? “I just want to acknowledge, before we even start, the level of frustration that many New Yorkers have.” This was Dr. Dara... News 10 Apr 2022 | 05:04
Dr. Daniel Baker, medical director of Lenox Hill Hospital, speaking at the one-year anniversary of COVID during a day of remembrance, thanking the staff for their selfless service. Photo: Northwell Health COVID Spring’s Hard Choices Perhaps it is the legacy of all the loss he and his colleagues have endured that the number zero – the absence of anything... News 26 Mar 2022 | 05:15
NYPD Extends Quality of Life Pilot Program Across all of Manhattan