{"id":27702,"date":"2022-12-10T11:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T11:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=27702"},"modified":"2022-12-10T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T11:22:43","slug":"nyc-health-officials-urge-new-yorkers-to-wear-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/27702","title":{"rendered":"NYC Health Officials Urge New Yorkers to Wear Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk:<\/p>\n<p>According to the national media, New York City faces high levels of Covid-19, flu, and RSV cases in the following holiday season. To slow the transmission of viruses, NYC health officials issued a health advisory strongly urging New Yorkers to use masks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New York Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said that the rise in respiratory viruses is the reason why the city&#8217;s health office is recommending, not only the use of masks but also vaccinations and boosters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The advisory recommends New Yorkers use high-quality masks when indoors and in crowded outdoor settings. This is especially important for those who are at increased risk for complications from COVID-19, RSV, or the flu, such as those ages 65 and older and immune-compromised people.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Wear a high-quality mask, such as a KN95 or KF94 or an N95 respirator, for additional protection,&#8221; city health officials say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Advisory also urges people to get vaccinated for COVID-19 and flu, even if they have been vaccinated previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk: According to the national media, New York City faces high levels of Covid-19, flu, and RSV cases in the following holiday season. To slow the transmission of viruses, NYC health officials issued a health advisory strongly urging New Yorkers to use masks. New York Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said that the rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1480,7,1469,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-health-2","category-lifestyle","category-new-york","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27705,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27702\/revisions\/27705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}