New york lockdown december 2021 for free#
The city will distribute 500,000 rapid tests and 1 million masks for free as part of a new strategy to combat the surge. "The data that we monitor so closely is showing an alarming trend," Health Commissioner Dr. Transmission rates are going almost straight up as well - 311 per 100,000 as of Monday, more than double in the space of two weeks. Over the last seven days, the city is averaging 2,899 positive cases a day, which is more than 1,000 cases higher than the 28-day average. Omicron NYC: "Alarming trend"Īcross the board, the city's indicators are trending in the wrong direction. 13 - still about double what it was a week prior, in any event.
Subsequent to Varma's screenshot, the city updated its data to show the positivity rate was actually 7.3% on Dec. That comes amid growing research indicating that omicron causes milder illness than the delta variant, but will sicken many more people, threatening the stability of healthcare systems.) (A new British study released Thursday suggested the omicron variant could cause symptoms that might be mistaken for the common cold. Consensus for now (but subject to change) is that immunity *against severe disease* should be far better," he went on to tweet. That's only explanation for dramatic jump in positivity. "This is #SARSCoV2 evading both vaccine & virus induced immunity *against infection* unlike any variant before. 9 was 3.9% and appeared to have doubled by Dec. "Um, we've never seen this before in #NYC," Varma tweeted, noting that the daily positivity rate on Dec. Note: Test % is only for PCR & NYC does more per capita daily than most places ~67K PCR/day + 19K antigen over past few days (1/2) /PhxsZq55jn- Jay Varma December 16, 2021 Um, we've never seen this before in #NYC.
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