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Thursday’s decision means that the districts could face cutbacks that are equal to their school board members’ salaries for requiring students and staff to wear masks.

NEW YORK -- Community leaders in New York City attribute the low vaccination rate among Black residents to a combination of factors, primarily a history of racism in the medical system and a subsequent distrust of authorities.

More than 80 percent of adults in New York City have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, but there are significant racial disparities in the vaccination rate.

How Do You Persuade New Yorkers to Be Vaccinated? Knock on Their Doors. As demand shrinks, the city is turning to door-to-door outreach to overcome vaccine skepticism. “Nobody I know took the shot,” one man said. Tomas Ramos, a 34-year-old community organizer, has spent weeks trying to persuade public housing residents to get vaccinated.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times May 20, 2021Updated 8:08 a.m. ET On a recent morning, Tomas Ramos, a community organizer, and two colleagues rode t...

Published February 22, 2021 • Updated on February 22, 2021 at 11:53 am Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Dr. Torian Easterling is the New York City Department of Healths first Deputy Commissioner and Chief Equity Officer For any vaccination program to succeed, there is one essential element: peoples trust in the vaccine and the institutions that administer it. Confidence in the Covid-19 vaccine is as precious as our vaccine supply. But after decades of racist disinvestment and...

Despite Focus, Priority NYC Areas Lag On Coronavirus Vaccines Patch 2/19/2021 Matt Troutman © Spencer Platt/Getty Images The city put the bulk of its COVID-19 vaccine sites in 33 hard-hit areas, yet vaccinations remain far lower than whiter, wealthier areas. NEW YORK CITY — A much-touted effort to bring the coronavirus vaccine to New York City neighborhoods hardest hit by the pandemic consistently failed to bring their vaccination rates up the high levels seen in whiter, ...

The St Kitts Nevis Observer New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s first chief medical officer, Haitian-born Dr. Michelle Morse New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has appointed Haitian-born Dr. Michelle Morse to serve as the agency’s first chief medical officer (CMO). “As the agency’s inaugural chief medical officer, Dr. Morse will have the responsibility of leading the agency’s work in bridging public health and health care, ensur...

Lowering Covid-19 cases across the US isn't only critical to helping prevent another surge fueled by variants -- it also makes vaccines more likely to continue working effectively against mutations, one expert says.

Measures such as masks and social distancing continue to play a key role, because if the virus continues circulating at high levels, it will likely more often come into contact with, and try to infect, people who have been vaccinated.