Children age 5 to 11 will soon be able to get a COVID-19 shot at their pediatrician’s office, local pharmacy and potentially even their school, the White House said Wednesday as it detailed plans for the expected authorization of the Pfizer... Read More
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Looking for a good scare this Halloween? Check out some of the frightening haunted houses on Long Island. Please check with the location before heading out as dates and times are subject to change. *Note: Locations may have adjusted hours... Read More
Today is the first day teachers from Long Island who work in New York City must be vaccinated or they could be out of a job. As of Friday about 90% of DOE employees had been vaccinated. The agency says it has 9,000 vaccinated substitute teachers... Read More
YouTube will block all anti-vaccine content, moving beyond its ban on false information about the COVID vaccines to include content that contains misinformation about other approved vaccines, it said in a blog post on Wednesday. Examples of content... Read More
The Delta variant is once again tipping the scales against airlines. Travel, which was battered during the COVID-19 pandemic, has appreciated a bounce-back with the economy’s gradual reopening. However, travel still hasn’t reached its... Read More
Top U.S. health officials announced a plan to begin offering COVID-19 booster shots to all Americans beginning next month. NBC News reports the booster shots will be offered to all Americans beginning the third week of... Read More
It’s definitely annoying to talk about by now, but the world is coming to the reality that COVID might never go away. In countries such as Iran, Russia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, and South Africa, COVID-19 cases are climbing... Read More
The ninth annual Long Beach International Film Festival is back again one year after being canceled due to the pandemic. Movie lovers grabbed their beach chairs, put their toes in the sand and were set to watch some films. Friday’s film... Read More
Google is postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-October and rolling out a policy that will eventually require everyone to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses are fully reopened. The more highly contagious delta variant... Read More
Frontline healthcare workers at New York State-run hospitals will have to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by Labor Day and won’t have the option to get tested weekly instead, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced during a Zoom webinar Wednesday, July... Read More
Minnesota Vikings assistant coach Rick Dennison will remain with the team, contrary to a report last Friday (July 23) that he was fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. Pro Football Talk reports both sides reached an agreement to keep... Read More
While efforts to get more Blacks and Hispanics inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccines are bearing some fruit, a new Kaiser Family Foundation report finds that continued lower vaccination rates put these minority groups at a greater... Read More
The NFL has laid out its strongest incentive yet for players to get the vaccine. The league has mandated that a game cannot be rescheduled due to a COVID-19 outbreak among unvaccinated players — and that team will be forced to forfeit, resulting... Read More
College students held a rally Monday in Suffolk to protest mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for the fall semester. The group protested near Stony Brook University calling for ‘no forced vax.’ The students say college-age people are the... Read More
I’m proud to share that that 80% of adult residents (18+) in Nassau County have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, the highest percentage among large Counties in New York State and well above the national average. Across the board, Nassau... Read More