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- Mayor Adams Further Expands City’s Network of At-Home Test Distribution Sites to NYC Parks, Bolstering NYC’s COVID-19 Preparedness and Protecting New Yorkers
- Mayor Adams Launches Nation’s First Mobile Test to Treat Program, To Provide Immediate Access to Anti-viral COVID-19 Medications at Mobile Testing Locations
- NYC Health + Hospitals and New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene Host New York City’s First Long COVID Symposium To Coordinate Patient Care With Local Providers and Community Organizations
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Expands Online COVID-19 Quarantine and Isolation Guidance Tool With Direct Connection to Resources
- Mayor Adams Bolsters NYC’s COVID-19 Preparedness, Further Expanding Community Distribution Network and Protecting New Yorkers
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Celebrates Historic Achievements of Its COVID-19 Contact Tracing Program, Reaching 1.7 Million Cases and Identifying 1.8 Million Contacts
- Street Health Outreach & Wellness (SHOW) Program Named Finalist in Fast Company’s 2022 World-Changing Ideas Awards
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Partners With Over 200 Houses of Worship to Expand At-Home Test Distribution During Religious Holidays
- Vaccine for All: NYC Test & Trace Corps and the New York Mets Celebrate Citi Field Vaccination Team’s Nearly 300,000 Vaccinations
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Canvassers Engage New Yorkers in Over 10 Million Conversations, Providing Resources and Information to Communities in Need
- Mayor Adams to Distribute 6.3 Million At-Home COVID-19 Tests, as Federal Government Stalls on Providing Billions in Emergency Funds
- NYC Test & Trace Corps’ Aftercare Program Launches Inbound Calling for New Yorkers With Long COVID
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Expands Online Tool for COVID-19 Quarantine and Isolation Guidance
- Test & Trace Launches “CATCH” Outreach Initiative to Connect High-Risk Cases to Therapeutic Treatments
- Testing for All: NYC Test & Trace Corps Doubles Number of Testing Sites, Opening Over 100 New COVID-19 Testing Sites in Response to Omicron Surge
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Welcomes Federal Mobile Testing Fleet
- Testing for All: NYC Test & Trace Corps and the Health Department Announce Distribution of 500,000 Rapid Self-Testing Kits and 1 Million KN95 Masks to 150 CBOs Across New York City
- Test & Trace Administers Nearly 60K Pediatric Vaccinations at NYC Schools
- NYC Vaccine Referral Bonus Program’s PTAs Facilitate Over 11K Vaccinations
- Testing for All: NYC Test & Trace Corps Announces Doubling of Mobile Fleet and Deployment of Mobile Testing to Over 1,400 Locations Across New York City
- Street Health Outreach & Wellness Mobile Units Offer Services to Over 50,000 New Yorkers
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Engages Over One Million Close Contacts Through Contact Tracing Program
- Vaccine for All: NYC Vaccine Referral Bonus Program’s Participating Organizations Facilitate Over 20,000 Vaccinations
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Announces Flu Testing Expansion to All Mobile Testing Units
- Vaccine for All: Mayor de Blasio and the New York Mets Announce Over 200,000 Vaccinations Administered at Citi Field
- NYC Test & Trace Announces At-home Testing for Immunocompromised and Those Ages 65+
- At-Home Vaccinations Now Available for All New Yorkers Ages 12 and Older
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Announces Mobile Language Teams for Vaccination
- Mayor de Blasio Announces Donation of COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Bus From Chercares to NYC Health + Hospitals Test & Trace Corps
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Announces One Million COVID-19 Tests Adminstered in NYC Schools
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Now Connecting Patients at Highest Risk With Life-Saving COVID-19 Treatment
- Walk-Up Vaccinations Available For New Yorkers 75 and Older Plus One Escort at Select Vaccination Sites
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Partners with Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., to Promote Day of COVID-19 Testing
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Hosts Day of Action to Reach JFK Airport Workers with Covid Testing
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Take Care Program Helps More Than 10,000 Guests Safely Separate in Free Hotel Rooms
- Vaccine for All: Citi Field Site Opens Today
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Launches Digital Video Series With Practical Guidance On Safe Living in the Time of Covid-19
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Allocates Nearly Half Of All Testing Resources To Neighborhoods Hardest Hit By Covid-19
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Expands Rapid COVID-19 Testing on Mobile Units to Reach Communities Most in Need
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Launches Rapid Covid-19 Testing on Mobile Units
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Partners With Reach Out And Read Of Greater New York To Provide Free Books And Literacy Resources For Families In Take Care Program
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Launches Rapid COVID-19 Testing at JFK Airport’s Terminal 5
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Sets New Record of 500K Covid-19 Tests in a Single Week
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Announces Expansion of Rapid Covid-19 Testing to Reach Communities Most in Need
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Holds ‘Get Tested Tuesday’ Day of Action in Queens
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Expands Testing Options And Adds Enhancements To Improve Wait Times As City Marks One Million Covid-19 Tests
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Launches “Validate My Tracer” Tool To Enable New Yorkers To Verify The Identity Of Their Contact Tracer
- NYC Test & Trace Corps And Catholic Charities Of Staten Island Announce Opening Of First Covid-19 Rapid Testing Site On South Shore Of Staten Island
- NYC Test & Trace Corps and Port Authority Open Free Covid-19 Testing Site At JetBlue’s Terminal Five At JFK Airport
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Announces Partnership With Etta Salon To Provide Mobile Covid-19 Testing In Brooklyn
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Partners With Essen Health Care To Increase Testing In The Bronx
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Partners With ParCare To Provide Free Covid-19 Testing To The Orthodox Jewish Community
- NYC Test & Trace Corps Records Strongest Performance Since Start of Program While Simultaneously Addressing Clusters of Covid-19
- Test & Trace Corps Partners With Wag! To Provide Pet Services For New Yorkers
- Mayor de Blasio Announces New York City’s Recovery Agenda
- Mayor de Blasio Announces City’s Own Dedicated COVID-19 Lab
- NYC Has Prevented Up to 15K Potential New COVID-19 Cases Through Test & Trace Corps
- Test & Trace Corps Announces Faith-Based Partnership with St. Albans Church to Fight Covid-19
- Mayor De Blasio Announces Partnership With Yankees To Get More New Yorkers Tested
- Mayor De Blasio Expands Hyper-Local Testing Response In Sunset Park
- Test & Trace Corps to Provide New Yorkers With Take Care Packages So They Can Safely Separate
- – Mayor de Blasio Announces Citywide Testing Capacity of 50,000 Tests Per Day and Updates New Yorkers on the Test & Trace Corps
- Mayor De Blasio Announces Hyper-Local Covid-19 Response and Community Testing Partnerships
- Mayor De Blasio Announces Checkpoints to Enforce New York State Quarantine Orders
- Test & Trace Corps Now Reaching 96% Of All Positive Cases, Surpassing Benchmark Goal
- Mayor De Blasio Announces $7.8M In Funding for CBOs to Promote Covid-19 Testing And Tracing Efforts
- NYC Health + Hospitals Announce New Services for NYers to Safely Separate
- Mayor De Blasio Kicks Off Covid-19 Testing Day of Action to Encourage New Yorkers to Get Tested
- NYC Health + Hospitals Opens Covid-19 Antibody Testing To All New Yorkers
- Mayor De Blasio Expands Testing Sites Citywide and Opens Mobile Units
- Mayor De Blasio Updates New Yorkers on New Testing Goals and Tracing Progress To Date
- Mayor De Blasio Appoints Annabel Palma as Test & Trace Corps’ Lead Equity Officer
- Test and Trace: Mayor De Blasio Announces ‘Take Care Initiative’ to Help New Yorkers Safely Separate
- Test and Trace: Mayor De Blasio Announces New York City Test and Trace Corps
- Test and Trace: Mayor de Blasio Builds Out Tracing And Isolation Operation
- Test and Trace: City Expands Testing Criteria to Test More New Yorkers
In the News
- Amsterdam News: Need for speed: City’s rapid testing vans look to outpace slow-and-steady PCR sites
- NY1: NYC Parks sites to distribute COVID at-home test kits as cases rise
- New York Daily News: NYC sends tests to pools, establishes treatment line as COVID roars
- Harlem World Magazine: Mayor Adams Further Expands City’s Network Of At-Home Test Distribution Sites To NYC Parks
- Brooklyn Paper: City to take new approach to COVID-19 testing and treatment, focus on mobile sites
- CBS2: Health officials urge New Yorkers to wear masks again and visit Test to Treat clinics as COVID cases rise
- FOX5, Good Day NY: Dr. Ted Long on the Test to Treat Mobile Program and Resources for Long COVID Patients
- New York City Launches First-In-the-Nation Mobile “Test to Treat” Program
- NY Times: New York City Will Offer Paxlovid at Mobile Testing Sites, a First in the U.S.
- CBS News: Paxlovid will be now offered at certain mobile COVID testing units in New York City
- Politico: NYC launches first-in-the nation mobile ‘Test to Treat’ program
- Bloomberg: NYC to Offer Pfizer’s Covid Drug at Mobile Test-to-Treat Sites
- NY1: NYC rolling out mobile units with ‘instant access’ to COVID-19 meds
- ABC7: NYC ‘Test to Treat’ unit improves access to COVID antiviral Paxlovid
- New York Daily News: NYC to issue Paxlovid to those testing positive for COVID in first program of its kind
- News12: Mayor Adams announces mobile ‘test-to-treat’ program in NYC
- AM NY: Mayor Adams launches first mobile COVID test and treat program
- Axios: NYC to offer COVID medication Paxlovid at mobile testing sites
- Huffington Post: New York City To Offer Paxlovid For Free At Mobile COVID-19 Testing Centers
- Becker’s Hospital Review: NYC to skirt pharmacies, hand out Paxlovid prescriptions at mobile test-to-treat sites
- Medical Xpress: NYC first to offer Paxlovid at COVID testing sites
- WNYC/Gothamist: As NYC enters coronavirus plateau, health officials push for extension of Long COVID services
- Gothamist: A tour with NYC contact tracers, as the landmark health program ends
- NBC4: NYC Tackles Long COVID with Three New ‘Centers of Excellence’
- CBS News: COVID cases continue to rise in New York City, risk level expected to rise to “medium” this week
- Staten Island Advance: These 4 NYC churches will be giving away at-home COVID tests on Easter Sunday
- NBC4: COVID Protocol NYC: Eric Adams Working Remotely After Positive Test
- Telemundo: Mayor Adams points out that a slight rebound in COVID infections does not mean a return to 2020
- NBC: NYC Test & Trace Winding Down Contact Tracing Program
- New York Daily News: A heartfelt goodbye to the Test & Trace Corps: They were empathy warriors
- Gothamist/WNYC: These COVID testers have swabbed 150,000 noses in NYC since pandemic began
- Crains: Test & Trace Outlines Sunset Plan for Contact Tracing
- NY Times: N.Y.C. will soon end its main contact-tracing program for the coronavirus
- NBC: NYC Sets End Date for Universal COVID Contact Tracing: What to Know
- AP: NYC to wind down most coronavirus contact tracing
- Brooklyn Paper: Brooklyn’s First Comprehensive COVID Clinic Opens in Bushwick
- News 12: Mayor Adams, health officials open new COVID-19 Center of Excellence in Brooklyn
- NY1 Noticias:Inauguran ‘Centro de Excelencia’ médica en Brooklyn -para casos prolongados de Covid
- PIX11: Cultural sites, libraries partner with city to distribute COVID-19 tests
- NY Times: N.Y.C. is offering free home delivery of Covid antiviral pills, though supply is limited
- ABC7: NYC to offer free, at-home delivery of COVID antiviral pills
- CBS: New York City To Deliver COVID Antiviral Pills To Eligible Residents Free Of Charge, Adams Says
- Harlem World Magazine: Hip, Hip Hooray, Over One Million Tests Performed by City-Run Testing Site in Response to Omicron Surge
- News12: NYC Test & Trace Partners with Houses of Worship to Open More Testing, Vaccination Sites
- Crains: With Covid test turnaround times tripling, clinics and labs try to mitigate crisis
- Brooklyn Paper: City Begins At-Home Test Distribution as Omicron Surges
- NY1: NYC to open additional COVID-19 testing sites
- Staten Island Advance: City to distribute 2K test kits at S.I. Ferry terminal on Christmas Eve, as test sites’ holiday hours take effect
- amNY: NYC public hospitals suspend almost all visitations, expand testing hours, as Omicron rampage continues
- PIX11: Test and Trace chief on long lines at testing sites, how to get at-home COVID tests
- PIX11: NYC vaccine mandate for private sector workers announced; Key to NYC to include kids 5 to 11
- AP News: Contact tracing revs up in some states as omicron reaches US
- WNYC/Gothamist: Heard the Call to Help: Director of NYC Test & Trace On Identifying 1 Million Close Contacts
- NYU I AM GPH Podcast: New York City’s COVID-19 Journey with Dr. Ted Long
- Associated Press: Contact tracing revs up in some states as omicron reaches US
- BronxNet TV: Street Health Outreach and Wellness Program (Interview with Dr. Amanda Johnson)
- News12: City’s vaccine referral bonus program provides funds to schools
- NY Daily News: NYC mobile COVID testing fleet to double to prevent holiday surge
- NY Times: N.Y.C. public schools open vaccination sites for 5- to 11-year-olds
- The New Yorker: “It Just Hurts A Little Bit, And It Helps You”: New York City Kids On Getting Vaxxed
- NY Daily News: NYC kids ages 5-11 eligible for $100 bonus to get COVID vaccine: ‘It buys a whole lot of candy’
- NY1: Students get vaccinated at pop-up sites in school buildings
- CBS2: NYC Launches COVID Vaccine Pop-Ups For Kids 5-11 At City Schools
- NBC4: NYC Kicks Off Huge Kids’ COVID Vaccine Drive — With New Paid Leave Option for Parents
- News12: Mobile vaccine site administers vaccine for kids in the Bronx
- CBS2: Children Ages 5 To 11 Start Getting Vaccinated At New York City-Run Sites
- News12: Test & Trace Corps brings health care to those most in need through NYC outreach program
- CBS2: Street Teams Canvas Neighborhoods To Bring Medical Care To Vulnerable New Yorkers
- NBC4: Barbershops and Beauty Salons Hold Vaccine Day of Action
- News12: City barbershops offers COVID-19 vaccine along with haircuts to residents
- NY Times: ‘A Safe Space’: Black Pastors Promote Vaccinations from the Pulpit
- City & State: The Suite Life of a COVID-19 Patient
- Reuters: Vax van seeks to avert super-spreader event at U.N. summit
- NY Daily News Op-Ed: Testing and Tracing Our Way to Saved Lives
- ABC7: Day of Action: Mobile COVID-19 vaccine sites at 26 restaurants across NYC
- News12: Restaurants team up with NYC Test and Trace Corp. to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations
- Univision: Day of Action: These are the restaurants that host vaccination centers in NYC
- News12: Vaccination program offers at-home shots for greater accessibility
- News12: New Yorkers can be vaccinated from their own couch with the citywide at-home vaccination program
- News12: Flatbush theater hosts vaccine van, with no appointment needed
- CBS2: NYC Hospitals Team Up With Blink Fitness for Mobile Vaccine Sites
- News12: Blink Fitness partners with the city to increase COVID-19 vaccinations
- Crain’s New York Business: A Year After Its Launch, Test & Trace Chief Reflects on the Agency’s Efforts
- ABC News: Why experts say COVID-19 contact tracing may be more valuable than ever
- Urdu News: COVID-19 resources available to the Pakistani community of NYC, interview with Syed Ali
- Telemundo 47: ¿Qué deben saber los padres sobre la vacuna en menores en Nueva York? (What should parents know about vaccinating minors in New York?)
- The South Asian Times: Hailing NYC for most effective contact tracing for COVID in the US
- Weekly Bangalee: বাড়িতে গিয়ে কোভিড টেস্ট (At-home COVID tests)
- VAX LIVE by Global Citizen: Gayle King Visits Frontline Workers at Citi Field
- NBC New York: NYC Schools Have Administered 1 Million COVID-19 Tests
- World Journal: 法拉盛增3新冠檢測站 3天知結果(Flushing adds 3 COVID-19 testing sites with results in 3 days)
- CBS Evening News: More than 100k doses given at Citi Field vaccination site
- WPIX11: How NYC’s Test and Trace Corps is working to get more people vaccinated
- Gothamist: Health Minibuses Roll Out To Vaccinate Homeless New Yorkers
- Marketplace: Is the American disability system prepared for long COVID-19?
- Gothamist: NYC Launches Care Program For ‘Long Haul’ COVID Patients
- Voice of America: Distribuyen vacunas en autobuses en NY (Vaccines are administered on buses in NY)
- Queens Chronicle: Queens native in Test & Trace Corps says vaccinations remain important
- Staten Island Advance: Borough’s two hospitals offer help for chronic COVID-19 cases through NYC Aftercare program
- NBC New York: NYC Launches Aftercare Program to Help COVID-19 Long Haulers
- NY1: Vaccination bus rolls out in Brooklyn Today
- News 12 Brooklyn: New aftercare program connects patients suffering long-term COVID-19 symptoms to proper resources
- NY1 Noticias: Centros de vacunación móviles recorren las calles de Nueva York (Mobile vaccination buses roam the streets of New York)
- Sing Tao Daily: 市府流動疫苗車首站日落公園 增加75歲以上老人無預約站點(City launches first mobile vaccine bus in Sunset Park) (Link no longer exists)
- World Journal: 病後全面護理 助新冠患者康復(City launches AfterCare program to help COVID long haulers recover)
- News 12 Brooklyn: New Yorkers working with NYC Test & Trace Corps stock up on PPE at Atlantic Center Mall
- New York Post: What I learned as a COVID-19 contact tracer in NYC
- NBC Today Show: Vaccinated Americans rejoice as they get their shots
- BronxNet: Test & Trace Corps Representative Dr. Amanda Johnson discusses current state of COVID testing
- NY1: De Blasio Tours Citi Field Vaccine Site to Support DC-37 Union Members
- News 12 Bronx: Citywide outreach effort aims to beef up COVID-19 testing, vaccine appointments
- NBC New York: No Appointment? No Problem! These NYC Mass Vaccine Sites Now Allow (Some) Walk-ins
- AP News: As contact tracing ebbs in parts of US, NYC stays committed
- Good Morning America: Officials target vaccine hesitancy as rollout expands
- News 12 Bronx: Head of NYC Test & Trace Corps reflects on progress, looks at road ahead
- The Wall Street Journal: New York City Invests in Rapid Covid-19 Test to Aid Economic Recovery
- The New York Times: The Pandemic Needs Its Smokey Bear
- amNewYork: De Blasio talks about future of NYC quarantine hotels program
- NBC New York: Citi Field Opens as Vaccination Site
- ABC World News Tonight: New evidence that ‘double-masking’ may be better at protecting against COVID-19
- Good Morning America: CDC changes quarantine rules for fully vaccinated people
- Harlem Community News: From Captain America to Contact Tracing: My Journey with the NYC Test & Trace Corps
- Weekly Bangalee: Test & Trace Corps served 11,551 guests in free hotels (টেস্ট অ্যান্ড ট্রেস কর্পস কর্মসূচিতে ১১,৫৫১ জন বিনামূল্যে হোটেলে থেকেছেন)
- Patch New York: 11K NYers Self-Isolated In Hotels Under City Coronavirus Program
- Queens Daily Eagle: Queens performer stars in NYC Test and Trace Corps online COVID series
- Conde Nast Traveler: What It’s Like to Quarantine in a Free New York City Hotel Room
- Gothamist: NYC’s First 24/7 Vaccine Sites Open In The Bronx And Brooklyn, Three More On The Way
- NY1: A TikTok Showing What It’s Like in a Quarantine Hotel Goes Viral
- BronxNet: Representatives of Test & Trace and NYC Health + Hospitals Discuss COVID testing, Tracing, and Quarantine Process
- Crain’s New York: NYC Test & Trace Corps Executive Director: Even With Vaccines, We Can’t Let Our Guard Down
- TBN24: Community Engagement Specialist Muzaffar Ahmed shares Test & Trace Corps resources (কমিউনিটি এনগেজমেন্ট বিশেষজ্ঞ মোজাফফর আহমেদ জানান কী কী রিসোর্স দিচ্ছে টেস্ট অ্যান্ড ট্রেস কর্পস)
- Voice of America: COVID-19 Additional COVID-19 vaccination sites open in New York (В Нью-Йорке начали работать дополнительные пункты вакцинации от COVID-19)
- Weekly Bangalee: The story of a Bangladeshi frontline hero: Tracer Maisa Alam conducts home visits to provide services (বাংলাদেশী এক ফ্রন্টলাইন হিরোর গল্প: ট্রেসার মাইশা আলম ঘরে ঘরে গিয়ে সেবা দিচ্ছেন)
- News 8 Rochester: Model behavior: How NYC reduced viral spread and how it could be applied here
- RTVI: Dr. Andrew Wallach discusses COVID-19 vaccination in NYC on RTVi (Доктор Эндрю Уоллок рассказывает о вакцинации против коронавируса в Нью-Йорке на RTVi)
- Univision: “En Nueva York las puertas están abiertas, sin importar su estatus migratorio”: encargados de vacunas contra el covid-19 (In New York, the doors are open, regardless of your immigration status “: Covid-19 vaccine)
- Amsterdam News: City focuses on ‘round-the-clock vaccine effort
- RTVI: On Duty in New York with Denis Cheredov: New Year’s Special Edition (Дежурный по Нью-Йорку с Денисом Чередовым / Новогодний выпуск)
- The Wall Street Journal – New York City Covid-19 Contact Tracers Brace for Long Winter
- News 12 Brooklyn – Dr. Ted Long Discusses New Testing Sites Across the City
- WPIX-11 – Controlling the spread of COVID-19 in NYC with the Test and Trace Corps
- See You Now Podcast – Episode 36: Contact Tracing at Scale
- WPIX-11 – NYC creates website to monitor lines at testing sites, making the system more efficient
- Weekly Bangalee – Safely separate at home or at a free hotel (বাড়িতে বা হোটেলে থাকা খাওয়া চিকিৎসা ফ্রি)
- Haitian Times – Creole Speakers Needed To Help Stop COVID-19 Surge In Haitian Neighborhoods
- The New Yorker – The Pandemic’s Winter Surge is Here
- Washington Post – New York’s Block-by-block Lockdowns are Curbing Covid-19
- Forbes – New York’s LaGuardia Airport Is Now Offering Free COVID-19 Testing
- NBC New York – NYC Debuts At-Home COVID Test Kits as Part of Care Packages — Here’s How They Work
- Telemundo – New York Hotel Works to Separate Patients with COVID-19 (Así funciona este hotel de Nueva York que aísla a pacientes con COVID-19)
- WABC – Test & Trace Corps Records its Strongest Performance Since June
- Canarsie Courier – NYC Test & Trace Corps Partners With Parcare Community Health Network To Provide Free COVID Testing And Resources For Orthodox Jewish Community
- Washington Monthly – How to Get Contact Tracing Right
- NY Daily News – >New Yorkers, Get Tested for Coronavirus Today
- New York Times – How a COVID-19 Contact Tracer Spends her Sundays
- NY1 – NYC’s Test-and-Trace Corps Has Reached Every Positive Case Since It Launched
- WABC-TV – Up to 4000 Coronavirus Cases Prevented by NYC Contact Tracers
- WPIX-11 – Dr. Ted Long Discusses Test + Trace Corps Efforts and Preventing A Second Wave
- Test + Trace Corps Hosts ‘COVID Testing Day-of-Action’
- Mayor’s Briefing – How contact tracing works in NYC