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
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
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
