The new case rate there is 69.4 compared to Nassau County's 57.2. That number is well above the state average (50.7) and is primarily driven by transmission rates in Suffolk County. Long Island has been responsible for much of that spread, reporting the highest rolling new case rate of all 10 regions in the state (63.0 per 100,000).
counties currently also designated high risk by the CDC.
The Northeast, one of two parts of the country where the latest outbreaks have been concentrated, is now a sea of orange and yellow on the CDC risk map, reflecting high- and medium-community spread, though largely the former, in most of the tri-state area.įorty-seven New York counties are currently deemed high risk for community-level COVID spread by the CDC, which reflects 75% of the state's 62 counties and more than a third of the 137 U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending travelers get tested for COVID-19 as close to the time of departure as possible.Ī day ago, f ederal officials warned rising case rates could intensify further over the coming months as they urged elected leaders in particularly hard-hit areas to consider re-upping calls for indoor masking among all people, vaccinated or not. While the current hospitalization count is less than five times what it was at omicron's January peak - and a shred of the nearly 19,000 hospitalized with COVID across the state at the height of the pandemic in April 2020, public health and elected officials are closely monitoring the data even as they continue to stress there's no cause for alarm. More than half (52.5%) of patients currently hospitalized for COVID across the Empire State, though, didn't have that diagnosis listed as a primary reason for admission, which Hochul's office says suggests those cases are typically milder. It was just earlier in May that hospitalizations topped the 2,000 mark for the first time since late February. Kathy Hochul's latest report, the highest number since Feb. The statewide admission total stands at 2,705 as of Gov. New York state COVID hospitalizations are now nearing 3,000, more than doubling in the last month as an omicron subvariant believed to be the most transmissible strain yet fuels soaring infection rates across the country, health department data shows.
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