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New York’s state health commissioner will resign Jan. 1 after 13 months in the job to return to Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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New York State Health Commissioner, Dr. Mary Bassett, who was just named to the job last January, announced on Friday that she will be resigning at the end of this year.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul says COVID-19 rules will be eased for New York’s schoolchildren this year, and masks and social distancing will no longer be required. The governor and state health officials also gave an update on the spread of monkeypox, which for the first time has infected a child.
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Dr. Mary Bassett also spoke about the current surge of the omicron BA.5 variant and how to navigate a largely unregulated environment.
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Dr. Mary Bassett said while monkeypox is a concern, it's much harder to catch than COVID-19. She also said the state is working to increase the limited supply of vaccines for the disease.
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New York State's health commissioner says while the new COVID-19 variants cause less severe illness, the virus continues to circulate widely
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State health dept recommends indoor masking in 5 CNY counties due to 'widespread' COVID transmissionThe New York State Health Department is urging central New Yorkers to take steps to curb what officials are calling a "widespread transmission" of COVID-19 in the area.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday the COVID-19 Omicron sub variant BA.2 is showing up in testing in New York.
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New York Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said Tuesday there’s no set date to get rid of the state's mask mandate for children in schools.
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Onondaga County is asking the state to come up with a metric to determine when kids can stop wearing masks in schools.