New cases in New York City are increasing at a worrying level.
The second wave of cases reached New York, and with each passing day it seems that it is taking hold much more.
New York City’s covid-19 contagion tracker has detailed, according to a review The New York Post, that the situation of the pandemic in the city has changed since face-to-face classes began to be reactivated in public schools.
During the summer, the city’s positivity rate was able to remain at extraordinary levels, however, the contagion tracker details, that after the reactivation of schools and the spread of cases through almost all the states of the country, the situation began to vary in NYC.
In early November, when cases began to rebound across most of the country, New York City saw an increase “random” of new cases of covid-19, which grew as the days went by.
The gatherings in places of worship and indoors gave a boost to new cases that were spreading through almost every neighborhood in New York. After the holiday week of Thanksgiving, the city began to experience an overwhelm of hospitals.
Health authorities began doing more tests for COVID-19 and since then, New York City saw a rebound that many have called “Extremely dangerous.”
According to what the New York City health experts have reported, the next two weeks will be “crucial” to cut the chain of transmission of new cases. Especially in the festive season, where a high increase in new covid-19 infections is expected.
The governor Andrew Cuomo he has said that the number of hospitalizations has risen considerably. For this month of December, Cuomo and his team are developing a plan with five strategies to stop the infections that are expected by the end of the year.
One of the strategies that Cuomo proposes to address the crisis that is increasingly close to increasing in New York, is the opening of field hospitals to care for patients and avoid the collapse of the state hospital system.
Hospitalizations in the last three weeks have risen about 120% in New York City, according to estimates by local health authorities.
Mayor Bill De Blasio has expressed concern about the increase in hospitalizations, “What we are seeing now more than we have seen in a long time is that these three indicators are moving in the wrong direction or, around the daily cases, moving a lot in the wrong direction”.
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More than 100,000 doses of vaccines will reach the state
Governor Andrew Cuomo has reported that by December 15 at least 170,000 doses of vaccines will reach the entire state, however, they will be distributed mainly to health personnel and vulnerable communities.
Cuomo detailed that the plan is directed, in the first place to satisfy the demand of the groups with the greatest needs, where 27 neighborhoods in which the virus has raged in recent months.
For his part, Mayor De Blasio added that, “If we don’t manage to reduce these numbers soon, of course there is a real possibility of much greater restrictions. So we have to do this work individually. We have the tools to fight “.
You can also read: 170,000 doses of vaccine will arrive on December 15 in New York, Cuomo
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