“Basically, we’ll be going from mandatory to optional,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday as she unveiled new COVID masking guidance.
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And 8,000 more first-dose monkeypox vaccine appointments will go live Friday at 4 p.m.
"(The) overall risk of exposure for children in the city remains very low," the city's health commissioner said.
Intradermal, or shallow, injections will be used by the city to stretch out the monkeypox vaccine's supply, officials said.
Hochul is outlining plans as the outbreak continues to grow.
“The days of sending an entire classroom home because one person was symptomatic or tests positive, those days are over,” she said.
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Two New Yorkers have come down with West Nile virus and a record number of mosquitoes have documented cases, the health department said.
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Health officials in New York City said they had found the virus in wastewater samples, suggesting it was spreading among the unvaccinated.
"If your states do not respect your rights, New Yorkers will," Mayor Eric Adams said before signing six abortion access bills into law.
The discovery of poliovirus in New York City sewage suggests "likely local circulation" in the city, health officials said Friday.
The polio virus has now been found in seven different wastewater samples in two adjacent counties north of New York City, officials said.
Ten city neighborhoods home to more than 1.5 million people have just 57 cooling centers, a new study shows.
The next round of monkeypox vaccine appointments goes live Thursday at 6 p.m. amid fears supply could dry up.
The offer coincides with a "blood emergency" in New York City.
The groundbreaking surgery was the first since the passage of the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act in 2013.
Mayor Eric Adams on Monday declared a local state of emergency — the latest in a constellation of similar actions against monkeypox.
State health Commissioner Mary Bassett declared monkeypox an imminent threat to public health across the state Thursday.
Vasan wrote in a missive demanding the virus be renamed, "The WHO must act in this moment before it is too late."
A week ago, there were just over 600 monkeypox cases in the city. Health officials worry the virus could soon become "uncontainable."
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On one side are allegations of mismanagement, self-enrichment and poor performance putting Brooklyn residents in danger.
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New Yorkers can also now text the word “MONKEYPOX” to 692692 to receive updates on vaccine appointment availability,
Bookings for 17,000 doses open Friday at 6 p.m., with other shots set aside for contacts of known cases and local groups, officials said.
The patient, who lives in a New York City suburb, developed paralysis, officials said.
COVID-19 levels remain too high to relax MTA mask rules before the fall, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday.
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"The window for containing the spread of monkeypox in NYC is closing fast," a prominent city official said Monday when cases surpassed 600.
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Three large hubs in Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx opened for one day only Sunday as the city began a mass rollout of newly received doses.
Appointments for the next 8,200 doses go live Friday at 6 p.m. Cases stood at 389 as of Thursday.
Older patients in New York City and Long Island were told they needed unnecessary treatments billed to Medicare, prosecutors contend.
"We want them to hire more people," Gov. Kathy Hochul said of abortion providers as she pits New York as a national safe harbor post-Roe.
So many New Yorkers tried to sign up for a monkeypox vaccine appointment Tuesday that the Health Department's site went down.
Said Dr. Moazami, who led the operations at NYU Langone Health, "You stand there in awe" when the pig heart starts to beat in a human body.