Governor Hochul Announces #GetTheVaxFacts Campaign to Combat COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation

Governor Hochul Announces #GetTheVaxFacts Campaign to Combat COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation

October 27, 2021 | Governor Kathy Hochul today announced a new program—#GetTheVaxFacts—to combat COVID-19 vaccine misinformation online. The campaign includes a dedicated website as well as downloadable toolkits to address the most pressing misinformation topics around the COVID-19 vaccine in a thorough and easy-to-understand way. The new resources cover misinformation related to pregnancy and infertility, side effects, safety and speed, as well as government conspiracy theories that continue to circulate on social media and digital forums.

New York City Inches Toward Covid-19 Becoming Endemic

New York City Inches Toward Covid-19 Becoming Endemic

October 25, 2021 | Each wave of Covid-19 patients that has crashed through the doors of Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens has been more manageable than the last. In the spring of 2020 and the following winter, the hospital needed extra spaces to care for Covid-19 patients in need of oxygen and struggling to breathe. At the height of the Delta surge this summer and fall, Covid-19 patients didn’t fill its ICU.

Syracuse wins $600k CDC grant for Covid vaccination and education project

Syracuse wins $600k CDC grant for Covid vaccination and education project

October 21, 2021 | Fear is keeping the vaccination rate low in Syracuse, Deputy Mayor Sharon Owens said. But a nearly $600,000 federal grant will allow city health workers to go door-to-door, dispelling myths in high-risk neighborhoods. The grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will fund person-to-person outreach on Covid-19 vaccination and prevention, Mayor Ben Walsh said. Using that money, the city plans to develop a program to train and deploy community health workers in areas with particularly low vaccination rates.