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Halloween falls on a Sunday this year, which means more time for trick-or-treating, but health experts insist now is not the time to pretend COVID-19 is gone.

Board of Ed officials also announced that come the fall, there will be no more school health checks or remote instruction and plexiglass barriers will be removed from the desks.

As demand for COVID vaccines wanes, doctors' ability to convince reluctant patient to get shots may prove key to ending the pandemic.

For months, doctors worked from the sidelines as New York's COVID-19 vaccine rollout focused heavily on pharmacies and mass-vaccination sites. Now they're playing a key role in convincing their patients — many of whom are hesitant — to step up and get the shot. Among those doctors is Dr. Sandra Kesh, a Westchester County infectious-disease specialist who says she's convinced scores of patients to get the vaccine recently. As authorities shipped more doses directly to Kesh and other doctors, her vaccination pitch to patients steadily added more COVID conspiracy-busting facts. And she f...

Hudson Valley clinics administer COVID-19 vaccines to kids age 12 and up News 12 Staff Updated on:May 14, 2021, 1:48pm EDT Hudson Valley doctor’s offices are vaccinating adolescents ages 12 to 15 against COVID-19 following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel's recommendation. This means eligibility for the vaccine expands to about 87% of the U.S. population, including about 17 million children that can get protected from the virus at a time when 1 of every 5 newly reported cases include those under the age of 18. Allied Physicians Group in White Plains is one of the first ...