A series of tweets by Comptroller Scott Stringer outlined what he called a "gauntlet that requires tech support" to sign up for shots.
New federal government data shows which hospitals are nearing capacity in the New York City area.
From computer glitches to not being able to get anyone on the phone, it’s not running as smoothly as many had hoped.
Mayor Bill de Blasio outlined New York City’s new and growing ways to reserve doses after the elderly, teachers and more become eligible.
New Yorkers in category 1b — a group covering people 75 and up and many frontline workers — can start to reserve doses Monday.
The Big Apple is taking another step as it prepares to rollout the coronavirus vaccine to the public.
That’s increased anxiety for many New Yorkers hailed as heroes of the pandemic.
Health officials saw 476 confirmed influenza cases so far this flu season. They saw 13,350 cases this time last year.
Eligible New Yorkers can get COVID-19 shots at new mass vaccination sites and hubs. Here’s how to find them and sign up for doses.
Mayor Bill de Blasio pressed Gov. Andrew Cuomo — again — for permission to vaccinate wider swaths of vulnerable New Yorkers.
Amid a slow rollout, Gov. Andrew Cuomo detailed plans to move beyond the 200-plus sites now doling out COVID-19 shots in New York City.
Refusals by about 30 percent of potential COVID-19 vaccine recipients to get shots slowed vaccination efforts, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
Fewer than half of the state's 2.1 million health care workers have gotten the coronavirus vaccine, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city will set up five 24/7 mass vaccination sites and asked for greater “flexibility” to dole out doses.
Sandra Lindsay got her second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine 21 days after getting the first dose.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said a Saratoga County man tested positive for the strain, which expects fear is 70 percent more contagious.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said 85 percent of nursing home residents will get their first COVID-19 vaccine doses this week after state intervention.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has prioritized jail officers and other staff who work with inmates for immunization.
Hospitals could be fined and lose vaccines if they don’t administer shots within seven days of receiving them.
“Now is the time to sprint,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said, acknowledging concerns the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is going too slow.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the "aggressive"goal will come by doubling the vaccination sites across the five boroughs in the New Year.
New York City will dedicate March 14 New Yorkers lost to the coronavirus, the mayor announced Thursday.
Twelve members of the FDNY have died from COVID-19 and about 600 are currently out on medical leave.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said about 67,000 shots of COVID-19 vaccine went into New Yorkers’ arms so far as he defended the pace of vaccinations.
The doses received so far will start going to more groups — this week, urgent care workers are slated to get COVID-19 shots.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the rate hit 8.3 percent after the holiday. “For it to go up in two days is dramatic and very, very fast,” he said.
The first COVID-19 vaccine shots for New York’s finest came just hours after one of their own — a 27-year member — died from the disease.
Holiday travelers, especially from the UK, face mandatory orders that will be strictly enforced, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.
A health care worker’s allergic reaction to the vaccine is the only “serious adverse event” out of 30,000 recipients, officials said.
"If the variant is here, I want to know, because that would be problematic,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said amid fear the strain is more contagious.
About 149,000 total doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine are expected to go to health care workers and nursing home residents this week.
The doses in New York City kicked off massive vaccinations of nursing home residents, who have been especially vulnerable to coronavirus.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked three airlines that fly from the UK to JFK Airport to conduct COVID-19 tests on passengers.
The city’s vaccination effort so far distributed coronavirus vaccine more than two times faster than the national average, officials said.
The federal government needs to set flight restrictions to stop a new, highly-contagious COVID-19 variant from the UK, Cuomo said.
Health + Hospitals facilities stopped elective procedures on Tuesday to free up capacity for COVID-19 patients, said CEO Mitchell Katz.
Just 5,200 New Yorkers received the coronavirus vaccine in its first few days, but Mayor Bill de Blasio promised an imminent “takeoff.”
“I believe in New Yorkers,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, tempering his recent shutdown warnings with a hopeful prediction.
Medical professionals who are on the front lines of the pandemic are now at the front line receiving the COVID vaccine.
Essential workers and vulnerable New Yorkers will get the vaccine in the second phase. So far, 88,000 doses have arrived, with more to come.