Test & Trace Corner
A Break Down of Approved COVID-19 Vaccines for Children and Teens
COVID-19 vaccines have been available for adults 18 years and older since December 2020. As of October 29, 2021, pediatric doses for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11…
Voices of Test & Trace Corps: Mobile Operations Team
By Florby Dorme, Helena Keown As public health professionals, we hope that what we do protects and improves the health of people in our community. We are intimately connected to…
Voices of Test & Trace Corps: The Situation Room
SIT Room By Atanu Majumdar, T2-Intake Specialist, NYC Test & Trace Corps From the moment a Test & Trace (T2) specialist responds to a phone call, and the Building-Response Team…
Adapting to Patient Care with Mobile Health Clinics
On June 1, 2020, the Test & Trace Crops was launched with the goal to suppress the virus, then delay and diminish future waves in New York City. Throughout the…
Breaking Down Breakthrough Infections
In the last few months, the discussion around the COVID-19 pandemic has focused largely on the spread of the more contagious delta variant, which is now the dominant strain of…
School Surveillance Testing – Year Two
By Dan Rosenfeld On Monday, September 13, 2021 the NYC Test & Trace Corps began our second school year of surveillance testing, ready to help protect over one million students…
AfterCare: Leading the Way Toward Patient-centric Care
In a New York Times op-ed published August 18, Dr. Adam Gaffney of Harvard Medical School and Dr. Zackary Berger of John Hopkins School of Medicine describe the multivalent Long…
COVID-19 Vaccine Third Dose
As COVID-19 rates continue to rise throughout the country, we have a new tool in our arsenal to combat the spread: a third dose of vaccine for those with moderately…
AfterCare: Connecting Patients to Resources for Long COVID
What if it has been weeks or months since you’ve had COVID-19, but you’re just not feeling better? It might be Long COVID – one of the post-COVID conditions defined…