NEW YORK >> Patients are inundating some New York City medical practices with messages that they are experiencing COVID symptoms amid a late-summer surge of coronavirus infections and the appearance of a new variant.

At the same time, patients are peppering medical providers with questions about whether they qualify to receive a coronavirus vaccine after the Food and Drug Administration released new vaccine restrictions.

Dr. John van Bockxmeer, a primary care physician and an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, has noticed an influx of messages from patients with runny noses, chills and coughing — classic COVID symptoms.

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