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As millions of New Yorkers consider a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday that the state would make $65 million available to localities for their distribution, saying local officials know best how to serve their own communities.
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As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul will deliver her first COVID-19 briefing since becoming governor last week. Hochul will speak from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo at 11 a.m. Watch live online at wrvo.org.
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Two professors invited indigenous artisans to make masks portraying the agent of the pandemic — the coronavirus — through the lens of their cultural traditions.
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Worries about waning immunity and talk of COVID booster shots has some Americans checking their antibody levels to see if they're protected. But scientists warn blood tests don't tell the full story.
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It was drummed into our brains: Stay 6 feet from others! Limit close contact to 15 minutes. With the highly contagious delta variant, do we need to rethink those numbers?
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Upstate Medical University infectious disease specialist Stephen Thomas explains why COVID-19 booster shots are recommended. Syracuse University environmental epidemiologist Dave Larsen discusses the value of wastewater surveillance during the pandemic.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul promised more government transparency on her first day in office and by day’s end her administration had quietly delivered it by acknowledging nearly 12,000 more deaths in the state from COVID-19 than had been publicized by her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo.
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On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration officially authorized use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. This comes as New York State's positivity rate has jumped up to 3.75%.
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In a state with the nation's second lowest rate of vaccination against the coronavirus, a jump in the number of calls to poison control has prompted warnings about ingesting the drug ivermectin.
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What happened? Here are six lessons learned from Israel's experience — and one looming question for the future of the pandemic.