COVID-19 Resources: Current Situation

Fall and Winter 2022

• UK’s autumn Covid wave could be worse than the last as cases rise

• Fall COVID-19 wave or winter coronavirus surge with Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH

• Fauci says fast-spreading COVID variants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 are ‘pretty troublesome’

• CDC: Omicron Subvariants BA.4.6, BF.7 Increasing While BA.5 Declines

• COVID-19 Situation Reports

Long COVID

• What is long COVID?

• Long COVID: Long-Term Effects of COVID-19

• New York State Department of Health: Long COVID

• Healthcare Appointment Checklist for Post COVID Conditions

• Dr Anthony Fauci: long Covid is an ‘insidious’ public health emergency

• Living with Long COVID

• Can long Covid research unlock other great medical mysteries of our time?

• Biden–Harris Administration Releases Two New Reports on Long COVID to Support Patients and Further Research

COVID-19 Variants

• Variants of the Virus

• SARS-CoV-2 Variant Classifications and Definitions

• Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Variants

Risk. Monitoring, and Precautions

• New York Times "COVID-19 Risk in Your County and a Guide for Daily Life Near You" 

• COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool 
  (by Prof. Joshua Weitz and Prof. Clio Andris at the Georgia Institute of Technology)

• SARS-CoV-2 RNA Levels in Wastewater in the United States

Vaccines

• New York City Vaccine Finder and Vaccine Appointment Portal

• New York State DOH COVID-19 Vaccine Portal

• New York Times Vaccine Tracker (COVID-19 vaccines currently in trials and those that have been approved)

• The Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are very effective in real-world conditions at preventing infections, the C.D.C. reported.

Testing

• NYC Health Department COVID-19: Rapid Testing

  • Simultaneous PCR testing for the presence of 4 viruses done at at 6 NYC DOH clinic sites: Corona, Crown Heights, Fort Greene, Jamaica, Morrisania, and Riverside.

  • Turn around time is about 3 hours with email notice and results uploaded into the MyChart app.

  • PCR tests for for viruses simultaneously: SARS-CoV-2, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), Influenza A, and Influenza B

• COVID-19 diagnostic test and testing locations in NYC

• At-Home (lateral flow tests) COVID-19 Test Kit Pickup

• COVID-19 antibody test and testing locations in NYC

Questions

• COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions

Statistics for New York State (NYS) and City (NYC)

• NYC COVID-19 Data

• COVID-19 Data in NYS (Monitoring Key Aspects of the Epidemic) 

• Positive Tests (COVID-19) over time, by NYS region and county

• NYS COVID-19 Testing Tracker

• NYS COVID-19 Fatality Statistics

Statistics for United States

• New York Times "COVID-19 Risk in Your County and a Guide for Daily Life Near You" 

• New York Times Latest Map and Case Count

Affects on Children

• Pediatric Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome (affects infants to young adults) associated with COVID-19 (MIS-C)

Historical Information

• Guide to Reopening New York (2020)

• Essential Businesses/Services Open in ALL NYS Regions During Pause