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The acting city health commissioner also discussed the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak and COVID vaccines with WNYC.

An average of 36 cases were reported each month since last October.

The lawmakers urged Mayor Eric Adams not to close the facilities, which serve and are operated in part by people with serious mental illnesses who might otherwise be socially isolated.

The concentration of particulate matter in the air can worsen asthma and heart disease for some.

As part of the plan, New York City will look to expand overdose prevention centers — also known as supervised injection sites — from two to five by 2025.

Bassett stepped in as state health commissioner when Gov. Kathy Hochul took over as governor following the resignation of Andrew Cuomo.

Dr. Ashwin Vasan said his symptoms are mild and he is isolating at home.

Twenty-eight others were hospitalized as a result of the spread first detected in May.

The effort, which will target uninhabited marshland, is meant to contain the spread of the West Nile virus, which was detected in record-breaking quantities last summer.

Four people are currently hospitalized with the disease.