Coronavirus COVID-19 Charges Again Above 20% in Manhattan – NBC New York

COVID-19 positivity charges are again above 20% in elements of Manhattan, as the newest metropolis information point out the virus is digging in forward of winter.

The rolling seven-day positivity charge within the Hell’s Kitchen space of Manhattan is as much as 22.5%, in accordance with metropolis information Wednesday. That’s by far the best charge in New York Metropolis, and no different neighborhood is shut. Only a day prior, no neighborhood was over 20%.

On the similar time, the transmission charge in Manhattan, at 172.7 new instances per each 100,000 individuals over the past seven days, is up 7% within the final two weeks.

Citywide, the seven-day common of latest day by day confirmed and possible instances fell steadily all summer season till early September, however since then has been caught in a gentle vary between about 1,800 and a couple of,200 new instances a day.

Over the previous couple of days, it has held very regular round 2,000 instances day by day.

COVID Variants of Concern

Two new COVID-19 variants that quietly emerged on the scene over the previous couple of weeks — ones that Dr. Anthony Fauci has described as “pretty troublesome” — have gotten more and more prevalent within the New York space and stoking contemporary considerations because the nation braces for one more potential winter surge, the newest CDC information exhibits.

It’s possible you’ll not have heard of those two subvariants earlier than — BQ.1 and BQ.1.1. Each are descendants of omicron, which has confirmed to be probably the most vaccine-elusive and infectious COVID variant so far, and each are spreading at fast charges.

That is very true within the CDC’s New York area, which additionally contains New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Based on the well being company’s newest variant report, these subvariants account for 11.6% and eight% (19.6%), respectively, of COVID instances for the week ending Oct. 15, up from 4.1% and 1.9% (6%) within the report two weeks prior.

The CDC estimates these two variants might account for as much as 36.6% of New York space instances, which is almost double the highest-range estimate on the nationwide stage.