The city saw nearly 48,000 COVID-19 cases in a single day at the surge's peak. Daily cases fell to 3,000 as January ended, data shows.
Thursday marked the state's lowest positivity rate since mid-December, an encouraging milestone in the omicron wave.
New York City appears to be past the omicron wave's peak, but hospitalizations and deaths could still lag and spike, Mayor Eric Adams said.
"We appear to be moving in the right direction," Mayor Eric Adams said, although he noted — and data shows — the omicron surge isn't over.
The delta variant took 20 weeks to become the city's dominant coronavirus variant. Omicron took just five weeks, a new study found.
Six states, including New York, facing "record hospitalizations" from omicron will receive the deployments, President Joe Biden said.
Families of four in New York will be eligible for nearly three dozen free tests per month under the new Biden administration rule.
“Looks like we might be cresting over that peak,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said about the state's COVID-19 numbers.
Nonessential, elective procedures are once again on pause at 40 hospitals in the Mohawk Valley, Finger Lakes and Central New York region.
"We anticipate swift approval," Gov. Hochul said of the US's first booster mandate for health care workers. "It'll take effect immediately."
New York's omicron surge appeared nightmarish at first, but some experts hope the COVID wave could peak within days.
Mayor Eric Adams said Monday he's considering a vaccine booster mandate for city workers but likely won't make a decision until the spring.
Keeping kids safe in school is a key plank in Gov. Kathy Hochul's five-step "Winter Plan 2.0" to deal with ever-increasing COVID-19 cases.
The surging Delta and Omicron variants left the city grappling with a spike in infection as the year drew to a close.
Updated federal data shows how many hospital beds are currently filled in Manhattan and across NY.
People who are unvaccinated are about 10 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID infections than people who are fully vaccinated.
The new numbers are more than double those Mayor Bill de Blasio reported earlier this week.
Flu activity currently is high or very high in eight states or U.S. territories. So far, two children have died.
Mayor de Blasio says city schools will double in-school testing, but union officials worry parents won't consent to their kids taking them.
As CBS2's Lisa Rozner reported Monday, some are learning not even money can make that happen.
More than 300,000 people are estimated to be living with hepatitis B and/or C in New York City as of 2017.
Pop-up COVID-19 testing sites are available at two New York City subway stations today, with five more sites opening Thursday.
Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday that the number of children being hospitalized with COVID has increased almost "five-fold" in New York City.
The number of COVID-19 cases detected Wednesday is not only a record, it’s 5,000 more than the day before, according to data.
There will be 2,000 free tests given out a day in each borough, or you could try your luck at a local pharmacy.
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Here are updated figures on which hospitals are nearing capacity in Manhattan.
The city will add seven new sites and five at-home test distribution vans to help with record-breaking coronavirus test demand.
The produce may have been contaminated with listeria monocytogenes, an organism that can cause serious or fatal illnesses.
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New Yorkers should plan their holiday celebrations and travel around the most vulnerable people in their lives, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
The hospitalization rate for unvaccinated New Yorkers is 13 times higher than for those who are vaccinated, data shows.
In just a couple of weeks, New York City has once again become a COVID-19 hotspot.
The incentive through Dec. 31 is designed to encourage New Yorkers to get booster shots, which show increased protection against omicron.
A week ago, the omicron variant accounted for 13 percent of cases in New York and New Jersey, according to the same weekly CDC estimate.
Testing centers operated by the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation reported at least an hour wait at most sites by Monday afternoon.
Mary Bassett, who previously served as the NYC's health commissioner, tested positive for COVID-19 before seeing Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Mayor Bill de Blasio predicted the city will see a weeks-long surge of cases before it trails off, but said he still opposes shutdowns.
Demand for COVID-19 testing doubled in the last three weeks, and now tops 130,000 tests a day, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
Manhattan has the highest COVID rate among the five boroughs, but officials say it’s partly because of increased testing.