More New Yorkers visited the emergency room due to heat-related illnesses this past summer than in each of the previous three summers.
Sources say weeks went by without action, even as tenants filed dozens of complaints of foul, cloudy water on the eve of a council hearing.
But the ending city's public sector mandate "is not on the radar," Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday
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The city then said those test results were not accurate, and the testing company is to blame.
"On polio, we simply cannot roll the dice," said state health Commissioner Mary Bassett as the virus was detected in several more counties.
"We are leaning on primary care providers, we are leaning on our hospital systems and chain pharmacies as well," the city's top doctor said.
"'You do you' isn’t good public health policy in a continuing pandemic," tweeted one prominent City Council member.
“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.
A recent beach closure over bacteria highlights that New Yorkers don’t always know what they’re swimming in.
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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In the midst of a heat wave, a door knock or phone call could make a difference.
Teaching more kids to swim right now could be among several long-term solutions to the lifeguard shortage, officials and experts say.
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.