Coronavirus Vaccine

A leading World Health Organization official says the worst of the coronavirus pandemic — including deaths, hospitalizations and lockdowns — could be over this year if huge inequities in vaccinations and medicines are addressed quickly. But "we may never end the virus" because such pandemic viruses "end up becoming part of the ecosystem," the official said.

“The COVID forecast is improving… the COVID clouds are parting,” Hochul said. “We have seen a major decline in what we are experiencing here.”

Chancellor Karl Nehammer said that those unwilling to get vaccinated will face penalties of as much as 3,600 euros ($4,108).

While the state's positivity rate and hospitalizations fell, the number of daily deaths rose to 195, the highest single-day total in a year.

Distrust, misinformation and other factors have combined to produce what authorities say are alarmingly low COVID-19 vaccination rates in U.S. children ages 5 to 11 — just over 17% as of Tuesday, more than two months after shots for them became available.

Police filmed the nurse apparently squirting the needle’s contents into the medical waste bin before pretending to inject the patient’s arm, and then putting a bandage on their arm.

New York will no longer require local health departments to conduct contact tracing for people who test positive for COVID-19, Health Commissioner Mary Bassett said, so that public health staff can focus on testing and vaccination.

A Republican New York City council member has issued an apology for comparing New York's "authoritarian mandate policies" to Nazi Germany.

We used to think the way out of the COVID-19 pandemic was social distancing, masks, and ventilation. Then the focus turned to vaccines. What if the real way out is by acquiring super immunity

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced Sunday that she had received a positive test result for COVID-19.