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New York City is set to open another 23,000 monkeypox vaccine appointments later Thursday, and while all-too-familiar technical glitches that impaired the rollout early on appear resolved, the outbreak continues to expand. (Here’s where to check for appointments when they open at 6 p.m. ET.) As of the latest report, the five boroughs have reported 1,630 monkeypox cases, a widely…

Matt Ford was not able to get a vaccine for monkeypox, and managed symptoms of the infection with pain medicines. Now that he is recovered after a three-week bout with the virus, Ford opened up about his experience in an interview with LX News’ Ashley Holt.

Thirteen vaccination sites have opened up in Connecticut today. Gus Rosendale reports.

New York City declared a local state of emergency in response to the ballooning monkeypox outbreak on Monday, with Mayor Eric Adams signing the latest in a series of executive orders as efforts intensify to stem the tide. It shouldn’t come as a surprise. As of Monday, New York City has reported 1,472 monkeypox cases, a widely believed well-underreported number…

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…

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

While the city said there is more help coming to New Yorkers in the fight against this latest COVID wave — things did not kick off as planned. The city was supposed to start handing out free at-home COVID test kits at dozens of sites across all five boroughs Wednesday — but that plan hit a snag, prompting confusion about…

New York City has distributed more than 82,000 COVID courses of treatment and more than 35 million at home tests to schools and organizations. Romney Smith Reports.

One of the final protections left in place for the COVID-19 pandemic is scheduled to lift later this weekend. News 4’s Andrew Siff reports.

The White House says the federal website where Americans can request free COVID-19 tests will begin accepting orders on Wednesday

The reason: The variant has proved so wildly contagious that it may already be running out of people to infect, just a month and a half after it was first detected.

Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for those on their plans.

Walmart and Kroger raised the price of Abbott’s at-home COVID-19 test kit after an agreement with the White House to sell the tests at a reduced price expired.

A luxury cruise that had to leave 10 people behind in New York City due to a COVID outbreak now won’t return to the city at all because of staffing pressures caused by the virus. Meanwhile, the picture continues to worsen for the cruise industry generally, with 89 ships under some kind of CDC monitoring for COVID outbreaks — an…

As cases surge in many parts of the country due to the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the CDC changed its guidelines for when vaccinated and unvaccinated people can return to work after an exposure. LX News Now Host Eric Alvarez explains why the change was made and what you need to know.

President Joe Biden says the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free of charge to people to use at home