Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett say BA.2 is becoming the dominant strain of COVID-19 in New York, but they do not expect it to create another big wave of infections here. BA.2, a subvariant of omicron, has been gradually increasing as a percentage of positive ...

High-risk COVID-19 patients now have new treatments they can take at home to stay out of the hospital — if doctors get the pills to them fast enough. Health systems around the country are rushing out same-day prescription deliveries. Some clinics have started testing and treating patients ...

ALBANY — The state Comptroller’s Office this week released an audit highly critical of the state Department of Health and its response to nursing homes amid the COVID pandemic. Among the key findings were that DOH: ¯ was ill-prepared to respond to infectious diseases even before the ...

Nearly 100 coronavirus-related deaths have been confirmed among residents of Chautauqua County nursing homes in the last two years of the pandemic. Information from New York state, previously criticized for not accurately representing the truth death toll, indicates that 90 residents have ...

GENEVA (AP) — The number of new coronavirus deaths reported worldwide fell by 17% in the last week while COVID-19 infections rose, reversing a decline in cases that first began in January, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.N. health agency's weekly report on the pandemic ...

SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — Mid-Hudson Valley state legislature Democrats hailed budget proposals — which include a break from the state's gas tax in the state senate — as historic, while GOP leaders slammed the entire measure as a fairy tale spending package. Both the Assembly and Senate, ...