On April 6 at the Javits Center, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the start of the statewide “Vaccinate NY” ad campaign to encourage all New Yorkers to get vaccinated. Photo: Don Pollard / Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Passing on Passports Red, Blue, left, right, and center, most Americans have one thing in common: They do not like to be told what to do, especially... News 10 Apr 2021 | 03:33
Photo: Ivan Radic, via Flickr Your COVID Aching Back How’s your back? Thirteen months after COVID-19 crashed into our lives, if you’ve been fortunate enough to avoid contagion... News 01 Apr 2021 | 06:33
At a state-run mass vaccination site in the Bronx. Photo: Don Pollard/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Vacillating on Vaccines As supplies of vaccine and the number of vaccinated New Yorkers rise, there’s one question bothering the experts: Why are... News 24 Mar 2021 | 12:05
Medical members of the National Guard prepare Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines on February 24, 2021 at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, one of the New York State-FEMA mass vaccination sites. Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Vaccines and Allergies As of this writing, New York state has administered more than three million first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, which means... News 03 Mar 2021 | 09:26
Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Photo: National Photo Collection at the Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons When It Was Worse Sunday, August 11, 1918, in New York was fair and relatively cool. As the Norwegian ship Bergensfjord sailed into New York... News 01 Feb 2021 | 03:36
Administering the COVID vaccine at the Javits Center, January 13, 2021. Photo: Don Pollard/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Fighting to Find the Vaccine If several days of fruitless phone calls have convinced you that your chance of getting an appointment at a Manhattan site... News 14 Jan 2021 | 02:02
Mayor Bill de Blasio observes the vaccination of health care worker Tara Easter at NYU Langone Health, Manhattan on December 14, 2020. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. Four New COVID Facts SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is a definite puzzler, but months into the pandemic, the pieces are starting... News 15 Dec 2020 | 03:47
Sandra Lindsay, a registered nurse and Director of Critical Care at Northwell Health in Queens, receives the COVID-19 vaccine during a live conference with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on December 14, 2020. Photo: Scott Heins/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo The Vaccine Arrives The vaccine arrived in New York City Monday just as the coronavirus surged to dangerous levels, creating yet another new... Home 14 Dec 2020 | 11:26
Dr. Ronald Tamler. Photo courtesy of Mount Sinai Health System Telehealth: How to Get the Most Out of Your Virtual Doctor Visit Back in the spring, when physician offices were closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual doctor visits took off.... Home 19 Nov 2020 | 12:01
Mount Sinai’s Center for Post-COVID Care. Photo courtesy of Mount Sinai Are You a Long-Hauler? This spring it became apparent that people who had seemed to recover from a previous COVID-19 infection were still suffering... News 30 Sep 2020 | 03:43
Photo: Liz West via Flickr Broccoli: Love it or Leave it? Many millennia ago, when we were first crawling out of our caves in search of food, lots of green plants looked really tempting.... News 23 Aug 2020 | 03:16
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a coronavirus (COVID-19) briefing at the White House on April 22, 2020. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) Verifying Valuable Vaccines Suppose they made a vaccine and no one would take it? A raft of recent polls show that’s not impossible. In fact, if Operation... News 24 Jul 2020 | 09:47
Photo courtesy of Stephan Russo. COVID Redux Back in April, I wrote a piece for the West Side Spirit about my bout with COVID-19. I had tested positive and was hospitalized... News 01 Jul 2020 | 04:00
Dr. Anne Docimo. ( Photo courtesy of UnitedHealthcare) Tips for Remote Care Amid COVID-19 With the COVID-19 emergency prompting people in New York to stay home more than usual, accessing in-person health care services... News 01 Jul 2020 | 11:43
Steven Flanagan, medical director of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Langone Health. ( Photo courtesy of NYU Langone Health ) Learning to Live after COVID-19 When it comes to medical jargon, these past three months have certainly expanded the list, starting with the microbe SARS-CoV-2... News 02 Jun 2020 | 11:03
