NEW YORK (AP) — New York state reported Friday that just over 21,000 people had tested positive for COVID-19 the previous day, the highest single-day total for new cases since testing for the virus became widely available. One day snapshots of virus statistics can be an unreliable way to ...

Essex County has reported four new COVID-19 deaths in the past week, two of whom were residents of the Essex Center nursing home in Elizabethtown. The facility is in the midst of a deadly coronavirus outbreak. The Essex County Health Department said both Essex Center residents were fully ...

Essex County Health Department data shows that the number of new COVID-19 cases reported in Essex County increased by about 36% from October to November. While October saw 439 new cases, November brought 595. “In working with our case investigators and contact tracers, we can attribute a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A mask mandate for shops and other indoor spaces in New York state took effect Monday as officials confront a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that masks would be required in all indoor public places unless the businesses or ...

NEW YORK — More than 40 people in the U.S. have been found to be infected with the omicron variant so far, and more than three-quarters of them had been vaccinated, the chief of the CDC said Wednesday. But she said nearly all of them were only mildly ill. In an interview with the ...

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials on Wednesday authorized a new COVID-19 antibody drug for people with serious health problems or allergies who can’t get adequate protection from vaccination. Antibody drugs have been a standard treatment for treating COVID-19 infections for over a ...