In response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) is hereby waiving the requirement that eight (8) hours...

Effective immediately, hospitals must suspend all visitation except for patient support persons, or family members and/or legal representatives of patients in imminent end-of-life situations. 

Wadsworth Center has released an updated Infectious Disease Requisition (IDR) form to improve the understanding of demographic patterns of COVID-19 infections. 

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These contingency and crisis recommendations are based on the CDC guidance and assume that conventional capacity strategies are no longer possible. 

This advisory supersedes specimen collection and handling guidance from NYSDOH released on March 25, 2020, to extend recommendations that nasal swab and saliva specimen collection is an acceptable...

This advisory supersedes guidance from the New York State Department of Health issued on March 28, 2020, to clarify that this guidance applies to essential...

The criteria in New York State for release from mandatory home isolation is now being revised to use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s...

Recent testing of residents and healthcare workers (HCWs) of nursing home and adult care facilities in New York City, Long Island, Westchester and Rockland counties...