Health & Wellness

On Monday, students across the city return to the classroom despite record high numbers of COVID-19 infections

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reduced the isolation period for those who have COVID-19 but are asymptotic to five days

President Joe Biden has outlined plans to massively ramp up COVID-19 testing in an effort to curb – or at least slow – the spread of the highly infectious omicron variant across the U.S.

On Monday, the City's private-sector vaccine mandate goes into effect, affecting about 184,000 businesses.

Brooklyn-based laboratory LabQ Diagnostics has left people waiting over 96 hours for COVID-19 test results despite advertising a 48-hour turnaround

New York is experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases, as Omicron becomes the most common variant among new virus cases in the U.S.

Best estimates suggest vaccines are around 30%-40% effective at preventing infections and 70% effective at preventing severe disease.

How effective are the antibodies people already have at fighting off omicron? If you got the booster shot, are you protected? Or if you had COVID-19 and then were vaccinated?

If the omicron variant of the coronavirus is different enough from the original variant, it’s possible that existing vaccines won’t be as effective as they have been.

Prices paid by the Health Fund to NewYork-Presbyterian in 2019 were more than 358% of the price that Medicare pays for the same care at the same hospitals, the union says