Governor Andrew M. Cuomo provides a coronavirus update during a press conference in the Red Room at the State Capitol. April 22, 2020.(Mike Groll/Mike Groll/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
More than one in five New York City residents tested positive for coronavirus in a new random study, Gov. Cuomo said Thursday.
Cuomo said a shocking 21% of people from the five boroughs who were tested outside supermarkets had the disease, including a slightly larger number of men than women.
The governor said the stunning assessment — which means up to two million New Yorkers in the city have gotten the virus — will shape the state and city’s plans to reopen at some point from the devastating. pandemic.
“What you do in a place with 21% is very different,” he said. “The facts dictate the action.”
Statewide, 13.9% of New Yorkers tested positive for the antibodies that are produced when people fight off the virus.
Long Island had a 16.7% rate. Westchester and Rockland clocked in at 11.7%.
Upstate, just 3.9% tested positive in the study, which covered 19 counties and 40 municipalities.
Cuomo announced the figures as the daily death toll dipped a bit to 438 Thursday.
The governor bemoaned the fact that New York has flattened the coronavirus curve, but still has about 1,300 new hospitalizations a day.
“We’ve basically flattened it out at about 1,300 people coming through the door,” he said. “And that’s not great. We’d like to see it going down faster.”
Finally doing some science. Death rate is what?
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