By Janet Howard As of January 22, 2025, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has waived the COVID-19 vaccination requirement for individuals applying for adjustment of status to lawful permanent resident (green card) within the United States. This policy change means that applicants are no longer required to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination on […]
Department of Environmental Protection microbiologist Alexander Clare helps test wastewater samples for the coronavirus inside at a lab at the Newtown Creek facility in Brooklyn, Dec. 3, 2020. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Sam Rabiyah | SEP 26, 2023 City officials monitor our sewage systems for COVID genetic material. How should you interpret the data coming […]
A health care worker signs people in outside an urgent care COVID testing site on Dyckman Street in Inwood, Oct. 6, 2021. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Imogen Mcnamara and Rachel Holliday Smith | SEP 25, 2023 Can you still get Paxlovid for free? Where did all the COVID testing sites go? And how do you […]
By Suresh V. Kuchipudi | September 12, 2023 | The Conversation The latest variant, or sublineage, of SARS-CoV-2 to emerge on the scene, BA.2.86, has public health experts on alert as COVID-19 hospitalizations begin to rise and the new variant makes its way across the globe. The Conversation asked Suresh V. Kuchipudi, a virologist and infectious disease […]
By Simon Nicholas Williams// The Conversation.com World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have officially declared that COVID no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (Pheic). This coincides with the WHO’s new strategy to transition from an emergency response to longer-term sustained COVID disease management. This may not change too much practically. COVID will still have pandemic status, and countries […]
By cdc.gov DEFINITION Post-COVID Conditions Some people who have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 can experience long-term effects from their infection, known as post-COVID conditions (PCC) or long COVID. The working definition of post-COVID conditions was developed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in collaboration with CDC and other partners. People […]
New York, NY, USA – June 2, 2022: An Infinity testing services pop-up COVID-19 testing site. (Shutterstock) Written By: Linda Nwoke Many people wonder if the COVID pandemic is over, and with news of the new variant, how bad things can get. Experts addressed some of these issues during a meeting organized by Ethnic Media […]
By Sarah Wulf Hanson and Theo Vos, The Conversation The big idea Even mild COVID-19 cases can have major and long-lasting effects on people’s health. That is one of the key findings from our recent multicountry study on long COVID-19 – or long COVID – recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. […]
Pre-dating the Brooklyn Bridge or the Empire State Building, the New York State Regents Exams, established in the 1860s and given in grades 9-12, are the bedrock strata for the current system of using tests to evaluate schools. As with standardized State tests administered in grades 3-8, their outcomes have come to directly impact school […]
By Linda Nwoke Over the past few weeks, the Pediatric intensive care units in U.S. hospitals have been experiencing an overflow in cases of sick children. Many presenting symptoms are associated with the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), an illness that causes 2 out of every 100 deaths in healthy under 5-year-old children. The increasing cases […]