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Ask a Pediatrician: Is It Safe To Get My Teenager Vaccinated Against COVID-19?
More than 200,000 New Yorkers under 18 have received at least one COVID-19 shot. But some parents may still have reservations due to recent reports of adverse vaccine reactions.
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Caroline Lewis
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Ask An Epidemiologist: Is New York Reopening Too Fast?
Things are much safer than they were last year, but two epidemiologists would encourage local leaders to be “incredibly cautious.”.
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Danny Lewis
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Ask An Epidemiologist: How To Stay Safe From COVID While Riding The Subway
Eye protection and double masking is a good idea. Standing room only is still too close for comfort.
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Sydney Pereira
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Ask An Epidemiologist: Can I Hang With Another Vaccinated Person And Ditch My Mask?
New questions are coming up about safe and appropriate social behavior now that some people are immunized against the virus while others remain ineligible, unable, or unwilling to get the vaccine.
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Caroline Lewis
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Ask An Epidemiologist: How Is NY's Vaccine Rollout Going?
"Rollout has been a bit bumpy at first, and not nearly rolling out as quickly as we’d all like, but that’s not very surprising. It’s a complicated job."
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Jen Carlson
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Ask An Epidemiologist: Planes, Trains, Or Shelter In Place — How Should We Handle The Holidays?
Thinking of heading home for the holidays? Here's some guidance.
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Jen Carlson
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Ask An Epidemiologist: Is Indoor Dining Safe?
We are working with very limited data, "which makes decision making more like a game of chance than like a rational process."
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Jen Carlson
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Mask FAQs: Health Experts Answer Questions About Life-Saving Face Coverings
We asked several health experts about masks, here's what they had to say.
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Jen Carlson
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Ask An Epidemiologist: How Safe Is Mass Transit?
"Whatever we do (until the vaccine arrives) it’s really important not to get complacent about these precautions. It’s one way we can show that indeed we are all in this together, and depend on each other."
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Jen Carlson
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Ask An Epidemiologist: Is It Safe To Socialize In The Open Air?
"We can’t say with certainty about any individual, who just might be one of the unlucky ones." We asked two epidemiologists their thoughts on the open air socializing that's been going on around NYC.
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Jen Carlson
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