Health & Wellness

With more than 30 million people infected and 550,000 dead, the U.S. is among the nations hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

As NYC Youth Vax Week continues, community leaders are encouraging youth and parents to remain informed about the vaccine and get vaccinated.

Community members have been fighting to save Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center beds, but say Governor Cuomo and One Brooklyn Health are rapidly moving forward with the closure

By: Beth Jameson , Seton Hall University When many people think of a school nurse, they imagine a person who hands out Band-Aids for boo-boos. But school nurses do so much more.

By: Sanjay Mishra , Vanderbilt University Takeaways: Vaccines can be great at preventing you from getting sick, while at the same time not necessarily stopping you from getting infected or spreading the germ.

The organization was forced to shift its operations virtually after in-school hydroponic farms were shut down due to Covid-19.

Ariel Davis is organizing the event to fundraise for The National Alliance on Mental Illness NYC, an organization that runs free mental health programming and support services.

By: William Petri , University of Virginia When COVID-19 first began spreading, public health and medical experts began talking about the need for the U.S. to reach herd immunity to stop the coronavirus from spreading.

Governor Cuomo said New York’s mask mandate would be lifted for fully vaccinated New Yorkers on Wednesday

Adina Jones, the AdvantageCare Physicians’ Regional Clinical Director for Brooklyn, is a nurse who has been working throughout the pandemic.