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Commissioner Dave A. Chokshi, MD

@NYCHealthCommr

16 Aug

@US_FDA

Update on our vaccination guidance: Late last week, the @US_FDA and @CDCgov recommended that people with certain immunocompromising conditions get a third dose of COVID vaccine. 🧵

This follows studies that have found a lower immune response after two doses of an mRNA vaccine – that’s Pfizer or Moderna – in some people who are moderately to severely immunocompromised, such as someone who’s received a kidney transplant.

The good news is that some of these individuals were shown to have an improved response to a third dose.

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Commissioner Dave A. Chokshi, MD

@NYCHealthCommr

14 Jul

@nycHealthy

NEW: NYC’s vaccination campaign prevented a quarter-million COVID cases and saved over 8,000 lives. @nycHealthy data show that between January and June, 98.9% of cases, 98.4% of hospitalizations, and 98.9% of deaths from #COVID19 were in people who were NOT fully vaccinated. 🧵

https://twitter.com/nycHealthy/status/1415314733322878976

My message to everyone today—if you have been waiting, if you have been on the fence—is to please sign up to get vaccinated as soon as possible. As the City’s doctor, what keeps me up at night is thinking about the New Yorkers who are still unvaccinated.

I think about how much suffering COVID-19 caused in our city over the past year and a half. I think about the grief, the trauma, the empty chairs at the dinner table. The good news is: SO MUCH of the suffering is now avoidable because of vaccines. We have evidence to prove it.

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Commissioner Dave A. Chokshi, MD

@NYCHealthCommr

14 Apr

Vaccines are lifesaving: The 7-day average rate of admission into hospitals for COVID-like illness among New Yorkers 65 and older has fallen by 51% since mid-January, compared to 29% for those under 65.

Consider the example of older adults who were prioritized earlier and received vaccinations at nursing homes and in the community. As more of these New Yorkers were vaccinated – now over 61% of our seniors have received at least one dose – we are seeing hospitalizations drop.

But we should not mistake progress with victory. This virus has shown us time and again how deadly it can be. We have to keep that in the front of our minds even as we follow the science on the safety of vaccines.

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Commissioner Dave A. Chokshi, MD

@NYCHealthCommr

14 Apr

As the City’s doctor, I like to tell New Yorkers what I would say to my own patients – when it comes to vaccines, there are no bad questions. My starting point in answering them is empathy, followed by the facts. 🧵

Over the last 24 hours, we have fielded a lot of questions due to the news about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. You could say yesterday was a "curveball." But it was a pitch we look for.

Adverse events are reported to a national database precisely so that we can monitor for patterns that call for greater study, which is what we’re doing now.

This monitoring acts as a highly sensitive warning system.

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Commissioner Dave A. Chokshi, MD

@NYCHealthCommr

13 Apr

Federal partners have recently alerted us about a small number of serious adverse events involving the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) vaccine.
fda.gov/news-events/pr…

While these events appear to be extremely rare, out of an abundance of caution we have paused the administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in New York City, effective today, Tuesday, April 13.

Adverse events are reported nationally and the actions being taken reflect how seriously we take signals from our warning system.

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Commissioner Dave A. Chokshi, MD

@NYCHealthCommr

9 Apr

Update for Friday, April 9 on #COVID19 metrics in NYC:

🔹As of today, we have administered over 4,842,849 vaccine doses in the city!

See the latest vaccine data: on.nyc.gov/vaccinedata