A new positive home test. Photo: Michael Oreskes Doctor’s Rx: Stop Testing Stop testing, said the doctor, it will be fine. In my chronicle of these plague years this may well have been the most memorable,... News 26 Apr 2022 | 10:52
Mayor Bill de Blasio went to NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst in Queens on December 16, 2020 to observe vaccinations for health care workers. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. Vaccines and Mixed Messaging Hope is not just around the corner. Public officials should make that clearer, says Professor Nina Schwalbe, before expectations... News 19 Dec 2020 | 11:11
New York City Transit Chief Customer Officer Sarah Meyer (left), interim President Sarah Feinberg (second from left) and MTA NYCT staff prepared on Sunday, June 7 for the the subway’s safe return reopening on Monday, June 8. ( Photo: MTA New York City Transit / Patrick Cashin) Scent and the Subway Sarah Meyer earned a unique place this week in the annals of the New York City subways. Never before has a transit official... News 12 Jun 2020 | 02:11
At Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily press briefing on Sunday, June 7, 2020. ( Photo: Darren McGee / Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo) Lifting the Lockdown New York City begins its climb out of lockdown this week much the way it entered, with its leaders contradicting each other,... News 07 Jun 2020 | 05:42
Dr. Oxiris Barbot on screen at a media briefing by Mayor Bill de Blasio at City Hall, Friday, May 1, 2020. ( Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.) The Vitamin D Question Why has New York City been slammed so hard by COVID-19? There are almost as many theories as lights gone dark on Broadway.... News 15 May 2020 | 12:24
On Sunday, April 19, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the New York State Department of Health would begin to conduct a statewide antibody testing survey. ( Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin/ Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo) The 'R' Factor The lockdowns are working. The coronavirus is retreating. One of the most basic metrics in epidemiology, the legendary R,... News 20 Apr 2020 | 09:29
