coronavirus

This week: Recreational marijuana, long COVID

Neurologist Hesham Masoud gives key points about how recreational marijuana products affect the brain and body. Neurologist Ahmed Eldokla discusses how long COVID symptoms may impact the body's autonomic nervous system.

This week: Heart rhythm disturbances, monkeypox, more

Electrophysiologist Kiran Devaraj discusses heart rhythm disturbances. Infectious disease chief Elizabeth Asiago Reddy tells about monkeypox. Ophthalmologist Mark Breazzano shares a study that looks at coronavirus on medical instruments.

A health care worker prepares the current COVID vaccine booster shots from Moderna in February. The company says a bivalent vaccine that combines the original strain with the omicron strain is the lead candidate for a fall vaccination campaign.

Moderna says its new 'bivalent' vaccine shows promise against COVID variants

Rob Stein

The company says this version targets both the original coronavirus and the beta variant, and appears to provide broader and longer-lasting protection against different strains, including omicron.

A case of COVID-19 brought 12-year-old Harry Nelson to the emergency room in Syracuse, N.Y., where cases are surging, His mother, photographer Paula Nelson, says he first had mild symptoms — just a headache — but later ran a high fever and began vomiting, which meant he couldn't keep down fever-relief meds. At the ER, he needed saline to rehydrate, Tylenol for his fever and meds to stop vomiting.

2 new omicron variants are spreading in N.Y. and elsewhere. Here's what we know

Michaeleen Doucleff

The variants — BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1 — have been detected in New York and other states as well as 5 other countries. One has a mutation that seems to give it an edge in evading the immune system.

This week: COVID-19 and the immune-compromised; also, the trauma of forced displacement on children

Dr. Elizabeth Asiago-Reddy explains why people with compromised immunity are still threatened by COVID-19. Psychiatrist Nayla Khoury discusses the impact of war and forced displacement on children and adolescents. Neuroscientist Stephen Faraone tells what to do if you think your child has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

This week: Kidney health, weight-loss surgery, at-home test kits

Nephrologist Michael Lioudis provides an overview of kidney health, including ways to reduce risk. Surgeon Lauren Rabach explains what to expect from weight loss surgery. And the Upstate New York Poison Center issues precautions about the at-home Covid-19 test kits.

White flags stand near the Washington Monument on Tuesday. The flags, which will number more than 630,000 when the temporary art installation on the National Mall is completed, are part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's <em>In America: Remember</em>, honoring Americans who have died of COVID-19.

More Than 600,000 White Flags On The National Mall Honor Lives Lost To COVID

Jonathan Franklin

The art installation, called In America: Remember, will be on display at the National Mall for more than two weeks. It honors the more than 660,000 lives lost to COVID-19 in the United States.

Politics and Government

New York requires masks in child-care centers

Associated Press

All workers at child-care centers in New York now must wear face coverings under a plan announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday.

Station Announcement

Watch: Governor Kathy Hochul's COVID-19 briefing - September 15, 2021

WRVO Public Media

Gov. Kathy Hochul holds a COVID-19 briefing and makes an announcement. Watch live at 11:00 a.m. EST on Wednesday, September 15.

A medical worker tests a person for COVID-19 last month in Mobile, Ala. A surge of coronavirus cases in the state has stretched hospital ICUs to capacity, making it difficult for patients with other conditions to find ICU beds.

A Man Died After Being Turned Away From 43 ICUs At Capacity Due To COVID, Family Says

Scott Neuman

Ray DeMonia didn't die from COVID-19, but after the 73-year-old experienced a cardiac emergency, he was turned away from dozens of packed ICUs, his family says.