"The data we are seeing on new infections offers a glimmer of hope that New Yorkers' discipline in fighting the winter surge is paying off," Hochul said in a statement. With omicron causing record infections in the U.S., many are left wondering which COVID-19 test is most effective. While a far cry from the 1% to 1.5% positivity rates New York City was reporting just two months ago, in early-to-mid November before omicron's emergence, it's a drastic reduction from reported rates that have topped 30% in the last few weeks. The positivity rate stood at 17.4%, marking the third straight day where fewer than one in five New York COVID tests came back positive and the only day in that stretch where the total number of tests topped 350,000. Nearly 59,000 new daily cases were reported, a roughly 10,000-case increase over Tuesday's numbers, though the latter may have reflected lags in weekend reporting. Kathy Hochul reporting declines in daily positivity and slowing growth in hospitalization rates for a third straight day. cases, the CDC says Pfizer and Moderna are working on omicron-specific vaccines but experts say it may already be too late to make a differenceĬautious optimism that New York has passed the peak of this furious omicron wave strengthened a bit more Wednesday, with Gov. Omicron now accounts for up to 99.1% of all U.S.counties are considered high transmission areas Omicron variant symptoms are milder than those associated with prior COVID strains, but hospitalizations are still rising.
Core viral rates are seeing slower rates of growth across New York, even though they remain high positivity rates are declining even as the lagging indicators, hospitalizations and deaths, continue to rise.
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