vaccine

One menu item seems peculiar at a McDonald’s restaurant in Massapequa as the COVID-19 vaccine was the “special” at the fast-food joint Wednesday. Greg Cergol with the story.

The White House will hold a COVID-19 summit Wednesday as the FDA continues looking into booster shots. Tracie Strahan reports.

One week into the school year, NYC is overhauling its COVID safety policy. Romney Smith reports.

Workers at New Jersey child care centers must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo regular weekly testing, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday. Murphy, a Democrat running for reelection this year, said he was signing an executive order Monday. Workers at child care facilities must be fully vaccinated by Nov. 1 under the order, or have regular COVID-19 tests administered. That…

A federal judge temporarily blocked the state’s medical worker vaccine mandate Tuesday. The state issued the order Aug. 28, requiring at least a first shot for healthcare workers at hospitals and nursing homes by Sept. 27, the same day New York City education employees are required to do the same by a mayoral mandate. Tracie Strahan reports.

A New Hampshire lawmaker on Tuesday switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat due what he says is the Republican House leadership’s anti-vaccine stance. “I cannot stand idly by while extremists reject the reasonable precautions of vaccinations and masks,” Rep. Bill Marsh of Brookfield said in a statement. “And so I have reluctantly changed my party affiliation. I...

A federal judge temporarily blocked the state of New York on Tuesday from forcing medical workers to be vaccinated after a group of health care workers sued, saying their Constitutional rights were violated because the state’s mandate disallowed religious exemptions. Judge David Hurd in Utica issued the order after 17 health professionals, including doctors and nurses, claimed in a lawsuit…

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden was channeling the frustration of the American people who are vaccinated in his Thursday speech announcing new mandates for vaccinations.

Three Vermont state troopers who are accused of being involved in a scheme to create fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards have resigned, state police said Tuesday.

Here are some of the protocols that New York City schools will be following, with a handful of the guidelines (such as quarantine and building closure guideline) having changed since the last year

Hundreds are gathered in front of the City Hall on Wednesday to protest vaccination mandate in New York City. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

If you’re vaccinated, you’ve got less that a one percent chance of getting a breakthrough infection, according to city health department figures. Andrew Siff reports.

New evidence suggests the vaccines are holding up better against the highly contagious Delta variant than anyone realized, according to New York City data released Wednesday.  Mayor de Blasio revealed new health department figures which show that between Jan. 17 and Aug. 7 only 0.33% — or one-third of one percent — of COVID-19 cases in the city are breakthrough infections…

A Rutgers University football player announced that he is leaving the school citing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. In a tweet, defensive back Peyton Powell wrote the school has “made the COVID vaccine mandatory to attend school and play football, therefore I have no other choice but to enter my name into the transfer portal.” The Texas native transferred to Rutgers…

A Rutgers football player announced he is transferring schools due to the university’s COVID-19 vaccine policy.

Several NYC unions plan rally against Mayor Bill de Blasio’s school vaccination mandate that requires staff, administration and teachers get vaccinated. Romney Smith reports.

Johnson & Johnson announced the results based on the two Phase 1/2 studies Wednesday.

Dr. Jennifer Haythe, an assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Columbia, answers your questions about COVID-19 and going back to school.

The Walt Disney Company and a coalition of unions have agreed that workers at Disney World will have to get COVID-19 vaccinations to keep their jobs.

About 148,000 school employees — and contractors who work in schools — will have to get at least a first dose by Sept. 27, according to an announcement from the Democratic mayor and the city health and education departments. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.