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5th Wave? New York COVID Hospitalizations Top 2,000, Nearly Tripling in a Month
In the five boroughs, health officials upped the COVID alert level to medium earlier this week for the first time since Mayor Eric Adams debuted the new system as part of his pandemic approach
By Jennifer Millman • Published 4 hours ago • Updated 46 mins ago
New York COVID-19 hospitalizations topped 2,000 for the first time since late February on Tuesday, rising nearly three-fold in just a month as highly contagious subvariants of omicron trigger pleas for renewed caution from officials locally and nationally.
As of Gov. Kathy Hochul's latest update, 2,050 New Yorkers were hospitalized with COVID across the state's 10 regions, a 145% increase since April 1 alone though still well below the nearly 13,000 admitted during the variant's January surge peak.
The rate of COVID hospitalizations per 100,000 New Yorkers has more than doubled in the same period, from 4.54 to 9.58, state data shows, with the Finger Lakes fueling the latest increases at a regional rate of 27.86 COVID hospitalizations per 100,000 residents on a seven-day rolling basis. And while just 48.6% of COVID patients hospitalized statewide were admitted for that reason, the numbers bear monitoring.
The share of COVID patients hospitalized in Central New York, which was driving New York's COVID uptick a few weeks ago, is 65.2%, much higher than the state average, for example. At the time, health officials blamed the overall infection uptick on a higher-than-national-average prevalence of the omicron subvariants BA.2.12.1 and BA.2.12...
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