New York officials created a new dashboard that will inform residents of the number of people who test positive for COVID-19 in each school. Enter your number to get our free mobile app On Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that all New York school districts will be required to provide...
We analyzed a random sample of inpatients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 admitted to hospitals in the New York City (NYC) metropolitan region between March 15 and 28, 2020, during which time a rapid rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations was occurring. The region had 88.3% of COVID-19 cases...
New York City (NYC) experienced a large first wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the spring of 2020, but the Health Department lacked tools to easily visualize and analyze incoming surveillance data to inform response activities. To streamline ongoing surveillance, a group of ...
New York City residents are expected to move to the Hudson Valley in droves. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, real estate agents are reporting an unprecedented number of city residents who are now shopping for homes in the Hudson Valley. This is also expected to boost home sales in the re...
A new public health data visualisation dashboard for COVID-19 has revealed significant issues regarding the quality, consistency and availability of reliable data needed to manage the coronavirus pandemic and its impacts.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building and updating a dashboard that shows the development of the Covid-19 infection in New Zealand. With the ever-changing data sources, I ran into quite a few challenges and had to come up with some workarounds. I want to s...
Association of substance use disorders and drug overdose with adverse COVID-19 outcomes in New York City: January-October 2020 J. Public Health (Oxf)., 43 (3) (Sep 22 2021), pp. 462-465, 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa241 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar Amuta-Jimenez et al., 2020 A.O. Amuta-Ji...
In March of 2020, New York became the epicenter of the US COVID-19 outbreak. Lockdown measures were put in place on a state and city level in order to slow the spread of the virus. During this lockdown period, New York observed a 25% reduction in fine particle pollution (PM2.5) as...
In the initial months of the pandemic, New York’s LHDs responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by: activating and mobilizing emergency preparedness plans; connecting vulnerable individuals to essential resources; informing community members; and serving as communicable disease experts by conducting case ...
NYC Mayor Adams scales back his public schedule after not feeling well, City Hall says By Elizabeth Kim 51 comments Woman who survived Nazis, Chernobyl, COVID killed while crossing Brooklyn street, police say By Ramsey Khalifeh 58 comments ...