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The Latest on COVID-19: What to Know About Testing
The Biden administration recently announced that it is making four more COVID-19 antigen tests, also known as rapid tests, available to each U.S. household for the fall of 2023. You can order your tests through the federal government’s COVID.gov website. A positive...
How to Protect Yourself From COVID-19, Flu, and RSV This Fall
Respiratory viruses, such as influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), tend to pick up during fall. On top of that, COVID-19 is still circulating, with cases increasing in recent weeks. To fight off what some are calling a “tripledemic” of all three viruses,...
COVID-19 Cases Have Been Rising. Here’s What You Need to Know.
If you are noticing that people you know are getting COVID-19, you are probably not alone. In fact, the number of cases in the New York area has risen recently. But this type of periodic fluctuation has been expected and is generally not a reason for concern, experts...
Three Years After the Start of the Pandemic, Reasons for Hope and Continued Vigilance
It has been three years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, by the World Health Organization. With New York City as an early epicenter, residents were hit hard. But from that experience, health care providers and researchers across the city found...
As the Pandemic Recedes, COVID-19 Research Continues on Many Fronts
While COVID-19 community transmission, mortality, and hospitalization rates have come down across the country in recent months, the efforts to understand more about SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, continue at full speed. “The energy is still robust,”...
FREEDOM Trial Finds That High-Dose Anticoagulation Can Improve Survival for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
An international trial led by Mount Sinai found that high-dose anticoagulation can reduce deaths by 30 percent and intubations by 25 percent in hospitalized COVID-19 patients who are not critically ill, when compared to the standard treatment, which is low-dose...