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
A positive home test. Photo: Michael Oreskes The Case of the COVID Chronicler It had to happen eventually, right? I tell myself that, in any case. After more than two years of chronicling COVID-19 in... News 15 Apr 2022 | 02:59
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine giving out “COVID Safety Bags” at 125th Street and St. Nicholas Ave. on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Photo courtesy of Office of Mark Levine Is This the Last Wave? “I just want to acknowledge, before we even start, the level of frustration that many New Yorkers have.” This was Dr. Dara... News 10 Apr 2022 | 05:04
Dr. Daniel Baker, medical director of Lenox Hill Hospital, speaking at the one-year anniversary of COVID during a day of remembrance, thanking the staff for their selfless service. Photo: Northwell Health COVID Spring’s Hard Choices Perhaps it is the legacy of all the loss he and his colleagues have endured that the number zero – the absence of anything... News 26 Mar 2022 | 05:15
Governor Kathy Hochul holds a COVID-19 briefing in New York City on February 9, 2022. Photo: Don Pollard / Office of the Governor Ending Mask Mandates Governor Kathy Hochul made it clear she was following more than just the science. “Everybody I could think of received a phone... News 13 Feb 2022 | 10:42
At Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press briefing on Tuesday, December 21, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. Omicron Attacks The health commissioner, who presumably knows how to stay safe, got infected, although she didn’t say exactly how. The lawyer... News 23 Dec 2021 | 06:23
COVID testing at Columbus Circle by the holiday market. Photo: Michael Oreskes COVID’s Sudden New Surge Suddenly, the virus was everywhere. “We’ve never seen this before in New York City,” Dr. Jay Varma, the mayor’s former health... News 17 Dec 2021 | 10:12
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Hochul hold a joint press conference to update New Yorkers on the Omicron variant. City Hall, Thursday, December 2, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office The Omicron Factor When fear runs high and facts are scarce, it’s wise to go back to what you already know works. That, boiled down, were the... News 06 Dec 2021 | 11:32
At the Veterans Day Parade on Fifth Avenue, attended by Mayor Bill de Blasio, on Thursday, November 11, 2021. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Health and the Holidays In the annals of public health there is probably no moment more notorious than the ill-timed parade in Philadelphia that... Home 20 Nov 2021 | 09:57
Mayor Bill de Blasio receives a booster shot from Dave A. Chokshi, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, on Monday, October 25, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Vaccine Resisters As they go about their daily lives New Yorkers don’t generally give much thought to Denmark. But they probably should, as... News 30 Oct 2021 | 11:46
Mayor Bill de Blasio reads to a first grade class in Ozone Park, Queens, Tuesday, September 21, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. COVID September Kids went back to school, but could they stay there? Delegates returned to the United Nations, some of them, anyway. Riders... News 26 Sep 2021 | 12:05
Dr. Matthew Harris, head of vaccine distribution at Northwell Health, administers a third shot of the Moderna vaccine to Arthur Magee, 81, an immune-compromised cancer patient from Brooklyn. Photo courtesy of Northwell Health Boosters, Third Doses and the Vaccine Confusion She told the pharmacist the truth. “I am a rather healthy 66 year-old,” explained the Upper West Sider, fully vaccinated since... News 03 Sep 2021 | 10:40
Mayor Bill de Blasio at his briefing on Monday, August 16, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. On the Front Lines of the Mayor’s Mandate We paid a visit to the front line of the city’s new war on the coronavirus. What we found was worrisome. A fellow with a mask... News 20 Aug 2021 | 03:37
Hawk Newsome, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Greater New York, opposes the COVID vaccine because of wariness shaped by discrimination. Photo: Uncle EZ Still Not Taking Their Shot As the highly contagious Delta variant ravages New York, vaccination rates are plateauing. An effort by the city to put pressure... News 15 Aug 2021 | 02:55
Mayor Bill de Blasio at the Coney Island Hospital Tower Building, renamed in honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Thursday, August 5, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. Living With the Virus This is what learning to live with the coronavirus looks like. We used to speak muscularly of boxing in the virus. Or flattening... News 08 Aug 2021 | 10:52
