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Scientists are finding ways to predict the future community spread of infectious diseases like coronavirus, monkeypox and polio by investigating the wastewater found in underground sewers. NYC Health + Hospitals launched its new Biosurveillance Program in February and has successfully predicted COVID and influenza rates up to 14 days before being reflected in the clinical setting. Since then, diseases like…

Scientists are finding ways to curb the future community spread of infectious diseases like coronavirus, monkeypox and polio by investigating the wastewater found underground. NBC New York’s Linda Gaudino brings you to the sewers to uncover the process.

According to the FDA, all at-home COVID tests, including the free ones sent by the USPS, are only good to use through a certain date.

New York City is reigning in outdoor dining sheds that are no longer in use. Andrew Siff reports.

Abandoned outdoor dining sheds are coming down. Tracie Strahan reports.

New York City’s mayor made an announcement on one of the more polarizing pandemic-era initiatives — outdoor dining — as expected on Thursday, though the details may fall flat for critics of the continued program. Eric Adams’ update specifically addresses the sheds — cumbersome parking-spot-blocking rodent attractors to some, lifelines of employment and sociality to others — seen stretching across…

Tracie Strahan reports on what New Yorkers think about outdoor dining sheds in NYC streets and what the mayor is expected to say Thursday.

At-home testing kits are being passed out at distribution sites across NYC amid another wave of COVID. Gus Rosendale reports.

Another COVID testing company in New York City has been ordered to refund customers for failing to meet the quick turnaround time they charged consumers for during the initial omicron wave last winter. New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a whopping third payday for people who paid for expedited COVID testing — specifically a 24-hour turnaround — and weren’t…

The subvariants are now responsible for 70% of new coronavirus cases, and their immunity to existing vaccines has concerned scientists. Here’s what you need to know about the subvariants.

If you plan — or think you might need to — get tested for COVID in New York City over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, you better do it before Monday. NYC Health + Hospitals reminded New Yorkers on Friday that all of its COVID-19 testing and vaccination as well as its primary care sites will be closed in…

In this week’s episode of The Debrief, NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein sat down with two researchers and a nurse who want to understand why some people haven’t been infected with the novel coronavirus yet after more than two years into the pandemic. Can they be immune?

The U.S. is ending the COVID-19 testing requirement for international air travel into the country, according to a senior administration source.

China has a Zero-COVID policy in place, which means tons of restrictions on international travel. NBCLX’s Fernando Hurtado shares the dayslong process of getting from Los Angeles to Beijing for the 2022 Olympics — including countless COVID tests, quarantining in his hotel room and a 16-hour flight.

Free at-home rapid COVID test kits were slated to be available for order through a government website starting Wednesday, but many users reported being able to place their orders late Tuesday morning.

It’s estimated that over 200,000 units of the at-home test have been in U.S. circulation.

Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, explains when people should get tested for COVID-19.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning Americans to avoid travel to Canada due to rising COVID-19 cases in the country.

More than one in five New York COVID tests are coming back positive these days, and the city’s seven-day rolling average for positive tests is currently one in three.

There is growing concern about one of the most vulnerable segments of the population — children — as pediatric hospitalizations have spiked by 500 in about a month’s time. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.