Health

During Governor Kathy Hochul’s announcement of incoming lieutenant governor, State Senator Brian Benjamin, Hochul wore a gold-colored pendant that sent a message. The nameplate necklace had a single word: “Vaxed.” According to the CDC, As of Thursday, 78.9% of New Yorkers over the age of 18 had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 […]

At the end of October, dozens of insurance companies will again require copays for Coronavirus hospital stays and testing. In the early days of the pandemic, insurers limited out-of-pocket expenses for anyone diagnosed and hospitalized with COVID through cost-sharing waivers, but this will no longer be the case, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. According […]

Last month, a bill was signed into law in New York that aims to provide women with better access to information that can improve the quality of their care. This bill comes from just one year later when Amber Rose Isaac from the Bronx died after doctors at Montefiore Medical Center ignored her telling them […]

Yesterday, the New York State Department of Health board voted unanimously to implement emergency authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all health care workers in the state. This mandate is different from most, as it will remove religious exemption as an alternative to vaccination. According to Vanessa Murphy, a Department of Health Attorney stated […]

New York Governor Kathy Hochul delivered another blow to what’s left of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legacy by acknowledging that the state has had nearly 12,000 more deaths from COVID-19 than Cuomo told the public. Hochul made this announcement on her first day of office; “The public deserves a clear, honest picture of what’s happening. […]

Rev. Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19. The civil rights icon and his wife Jacqueline are both being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. According to the Rainbow PUSH website, Jackson was first vaccinated against coronavirus in January and at the time praised Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett on her work at the […]

The Food and Drug Administration, FDA, has formally approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine making the Pfizer vaccine the first COVID-19 vaccine to be subject to a full review and to get an approval that puts the vaccine on par with other marketed vaccines. With this approval, the vaccine developed by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech could […]

Florida officials are threatening to withhold funds equal to the salaries of school board members if school districts in two counties, Broward and Alachua, don’t immediately get rid of their strict mask mandates. Currently, Florida continues to battle through high hospitalization rates. The two counties received a warning Friday from the State Board of Education […]

Local researchers who tracking vaccination data find having one-on-one conversations with people who are hesitant about the vaccine is effective in convincing them to get the vaccine. Over this past weekend, local Larry Pearsall Sr. considered himself hesitant until he spoke with one of the county employees working a pop-up vaccine clinic at the Puerto […]

In September, health officials are preparing to roll out COVID-19 booster shots in the United States. Based on a plan from the Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials that was announced yesterday, all U.S. adults who received a two-dose vaccine would be eligible for an additional jab of the […]