According to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University, as of Sunday afternoon (March 28), nearly 50,000 people had died from the Chinese Communist virus in New York State, the second highest number of deaths in the nation, behind California. New York averaged about 76 deaths per day for seven consecutive days last week. New York state has been the epicenter of the plague outbreak since last year, with 1.8 million confirmed cases.
As of the afternoon of March 28, 49,928 people in New York State had died from the C.C.V., according to Hopkins University. Meanwhile, New York State and New Jersey currently have the highest number of confirmed cases in the country. In the past 14 days, 548 people per 100,000 tested positive in New York State, compared to 647 in New Jersey.
Although both state governments are pushing hard for vaccine coverage, the infection rate has not decreased significantly. In New York State, about 50,000 people have been diagnosed each week since mid-February; Orange and Rockland Counties have the highest rates of 6.7% and 6.2%, respectively, and the lower rates in Bronx and Suffolk Counties are above 5%; the statewide rate on March 27 was The statewide rate on March 27 was 3.52 percent.
Governor Cuomo has just allowed large stadiums to host sporting events and a greater percentage of capacity for indoor dining and gyms.
Some experts say the state of the outbreak in both states may be related to new variants of the virus that have been discovered recently.
“Is something happening in this part of the U.S. that’s different from other parts of the country?” Ed Lifsh*tz, medical director of the Center for Infectious Disease Services at the New Jersey Department of health, told the New York Post, “The answer is probably: yes.”
The current cases of variant CCHS infections in New York State include a new strain of the virus believed to have mutated in New York proper, in addition to the variant strain imported from outside the state.
Travel restrictions as well as mask regulations do not appear to be proportional to the rate of confirmation, however. Texas, for example, has seen a decline in diagnoses after they liberalized travel restrictions and eliminated the requirement to wear a mask. Last Saturday the governor of Texas announced that their seven-day positive rate was “at a record low” and that hospitalization rates had dropped to their lowest level since October.
Diagnosis rates across the country are beginning to rise, a trend Dr. Anthony Fauci attributes to the Variant virus and the lifting of vaccination restrictions in some states.
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