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Two more women pleaded guilty in a $400,000 scheme to defraud a New York City program that offered free hotel rooms to help those with COVID-19 isolate, according to prosecutors.

More than two and a half years into the pandemic, many businesses have had to curb their hours of operations or services as they continue to grapple with labor shortages.

More than two and a half years into the pandemic, many businesses have had to curb their hours of operations or services as they continue to grapple with labor shortages.

A Brooklyn woman pleaded guilty to a pair of schemes to defraud city programs, with the first job netting the scammer more than $400,000 from selling hotel room stays reserved for the city’s free pandemic isolation program. In the span of a few months, city officials claimed Chanette Lewis sold hotel room stays earmarked for New York’s free Hotel...

New York’s labor force, one of the nation’s largest, still remains below the pre-pandemic peak, this according to a report released Tuesday by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. According to the report, although the labor force decreased by 1% between 2011 and 2021 while the rest of the nation increased by 5.1%, a rebound took place in the latter half…

Living with COVID for the Long Haul is a digital-first, episodic series on the mystery behind the lingering post-COVID conditions. Fatigue, shortness of breathe, muscle aches and heart palpitations are just a few symptoms affecting patients long after recovering from the inital COVID-19 infection. NBC New York’s Linda Gaudino talks to medical experts and patients in search of answers to...

Climate change can make diseases stronger, or weaken humans and their ability to fight infections, researchers say. And another consequence of climate change, the melting Arctic permafrost, released ancient frozen bacteria that were frozen for thousands of years. Erik Franklin, professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, joins LX News.

COVID-19 survivors, long haulers and families who have lost loved ones to the virus will march across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday in solidarity to raise awareness about urgent pandemic needs. News 4’s Linda Gaudino reports.

New York City is declaring a public health emergency in response to the monkeypox outbreak, a step that officials say will unlock additional tools to help slow the spread in the city that’s become the epicenter of another health crisis. Mayor Eric Adams and Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan officially issued the declaration Saturday, one day after Gov. Kathy Hochul...

A group of city, state and federal officials have requested the state to make a disaster declaration for monkeypox, Andrew Siff reports.

As New York has become the epicenter of another health crisis, the governor is taking action in order to ensure the state gets as much help from the federal government as possible to help control what has become the largest-ever monkeypox outbreak in America. Late Friday night, Gov. Kathy Hochul issued an executive order declaring a state disaster emergency in…

As the New York Health Department declares monkeypox an imminent threat to public health, more than 100 thousand more vaccines are coming to New York State, Andrew Siff reports.

The U.S. government will release nearly 800,000 more monkeypox vaccine doses from the federal stockpile, allocating more than 10% of them to the epicenter of America’s outbreak, New York City, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer says — but it may be a while before all those doses will be distributed throughout the state. The Democratic senator from New York announced Thursday…

Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold – further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab.

Today Mayor Adams praised the White House collaboration with the city on monkeypox vaccines. Gus Rosendale reports.

New York City’s monkeypox outbreak has now boomed to more than 1,000 cases, accounting for 30% of the burgeoning national case total — and with thousands of vaccine appointments continuously being scooped up within a half-hour of opening, the federal government is weighing more intensive action. As of Tuesday, the CDC reports nearly 3,500 confirmed monkeypox or orthopox virus (the…

The World Health Organization, WHO, on Saturday declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. The designation puts Monkeypox on the same list as other other outbreaks such as, COVID-19, Zika, H1N1 Flu, Polio, and Ebola

News 4’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

The Pfizer pill, Paxlovid, is intended for people with COVID-19 who are more likely to become seriously ill. Previously only doctors could prescribe the drug

In certain cases, new symptoms can begin three to four months after a person recovers from COVID infection.