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In the interim, Vasan will serve as He took over the city’s health tals. Women in labor, children, and Yorkers to enter venues if his health
a senior public health adviser. commissioner in the middle of the hospice patients will still be able to advisers recommend the moves.
“We are at a critical moment in pandemic, following the resignation receive visitors. Throughout Adams’s mayoral
our fight against Covid-19,” Adams of Oxiris Barbot, who left after dis- Adams has said he’ll evaluate campaign and on his transition website,
said in a statement. “The virus is a for- agreements with de Blasio over his the private-sector mandate and oth- Adams highlighted Vasan and Foun-
midable opponent, and our city’s re- Covid response. er Covid strategies once the new year tain House as a model for how to treat
sponse to it must be smart and strong. Before that, Chokshi served as starts. On Sunday, the mayor-elect people experiencing mental illness.
For the next three months as we get the ChieFCity’s Health + Hospitals. said there will be “continuity” be- A practicing physician, Vasan
through this surge, Dr. Chokshi will Now, Chokshi will have to help tween his and de Blasio’s administra- also serves as an assistant professor
continue the excellent work he is do- Adams face the fast-spreading omi- tions so “there is no confusion or gap at Columbia University’s Mailman
ing now.” cron variant, a rapid spike in Covid in our Covid response” when Adams School of Public Health and Vagelos
Chokshi, who has led the New cases and a run-on testing site that has takes office. College of Physicians & Surgeons.
York City Department of Health and spawned long lines for the screening. The mayor-elect has pledged to He holds a Master of Science de-
Mental Hygiene since August 2020, The city’s public hospitals also create a new color-coded warning sys- gree in Epidemiology from Harvard,
will continue to manage the city’s said on Wednesday that the system tem to alert New Yorkers to the Covid a medical degree from the Universi-
health system and vaccine campaign would begin banning most visitors threat level. He has said he’d be open ty of Michigan, and a Ph.D in Public
when the new administration takes amid the Covid spike, spurred by a to mandating vaccines for schoolchil- Health from the London School of
over Jan. 1. recent outbreak in one of the hospi- dren and requiring boosters for New Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

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