Cuomo update: Infection rates increasing through the fall

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a statement on Friday updating New Yorkers on the state’s pandemic response and progress.

“The experts told us we would see infection rates increase through the fall, and we’ve seen that as cases rise again across the nation. In New York, we are attacking micro-clusters where we see them, and that will be our strategy through this season as we see micro-clusters come and go,” Cuomo said.

Statewide, the positivity rate is 1.15%. In “focus zone” or “micro-cluster” areas, the positive testing rate is 2.13%, but outside of those zones, it’s down to .98%. Across New York, 141,508 test results were reported on Thursday.

Check out the full results for tests reported over the last two weeks:

Focus Zone	10/4-10/10 % Positive	10/11-10/17 % Positive	7-Day Rolling Average	10/21 % Positive	10/22 % Positive
Brooklyn red zone	5.86%	5.29%	4.57%	4.61%	2.51%
Brooklyn yellow zone	1.36%	1.93%	2.39%	2.05%	1.90%
Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills Queens yellow zone	3.71%	2.58%	2.22%	1.9%	1.62%
Far Rockaway Queens yellow zone	2.88%	2.08%	1.97%	1.78%	1.37%
Rockland County red zone	9.77%	4.54%	3.73%	2.02%	2.17%
Orange County red zone	12.41%	4.62%	3.10%	5.32%	1.62%
Broome County yellow zone	3.63%	4.05%	6.30%	9.23%	5.34%
Steuben County yellow zone	7.82%	7.52%	4.65%	5.11%	4.79%
Chemung County orange zone	6.49%	7.12%	8.13%	9.13%	5.70%
All focus areas	3.18%	3.00%	3.21%	3.16%	2.31%
Statewide, including focus areas	1.18%	1.16%	1.23%	1.20%	1.15%
Statewide, excluding focus areas	1.01%	1.06%	0.96%	0.96%	0.98%

Cuomo says nearly 50% of all new daily hospital admissions in the state over the past two weeks are due to localized outbreaks in Brooklyn Queens, Rockland County, Orange County, and Pennsylvania-border counties. They’re the main driver of new hospital admissions across New York.

Patient Hospitalization – 1,023 (+37)
Patients Newly Admitted – 149
Hospital Counties – 46
Number ICU – 223 (+14)
Number ICU with Intubation – 109 (+3)
Total Discharges – 78,854 (+101)
Deaths – 11
Total Deaths – 25,705

Take a look at each region’s percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days:

	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
Capital Region	0.8%	0.9%	1.0%
Central New York	1.9%	1.0%	1.1%
Finger Lakes	1.7%	1.4%	1.7%
Long Island	1.6%	1.0%	1.1%
Mid-Hudson	2.6%	1.5%	1.5%
Mohawk Valley	0.5%	0.6%	1.0%
The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island	1.3% 2.2% 0.9% 1.7% 2.3%	1.1% 1.2% 0.8% 1.3% 1.1%	1.1% 1.0% 0.9% 1.1% 1.0%
North Country	0.6%	0.5%	0.8%
Southern Tier	1.3%	1.5%	1.3%
Western New York	2.0%	1.5%	1.4%

Of the 491,771 total individuals who’ve tested positive for the virus since the outbreak began, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	3,516	28
Allegany	264	21
Broome	3,262	96
Cattaraugus	447	5
Cayuga	351	9
Chautauqua	868	10
Chemung	1,510	54
Chenango	358	11
Clinton	232	8
Columbia	667	4
Cortland	488	13
Delaware	166	2
Dutchess	5,403	21
Erie	12,705	55
Essex	195	0
Franklin	79	0
Fulton	361	1
Genesee	377	4
Greene	488	1
Hamilton	16	0
Herkimer	380	4
Jefferson	197	3
Lewis	68	4
Livingston	266	5
Madison	552	7
Monroe	6,992	75
Montgomery	261	2
Nassau	49,042	101
Niagara	2,016	19
NYC	257,147	571
Oneida	2,644	19
Onondaga	5,222	52
Ontario	629	12
Orange	13,342	39
Orleans	379	1
Oswego	607	1
Otsego	378	4
Putnam	1,780	12
Rensselaer	1,064	6
Rockland	17,581	57
Saratoga	1,265	21
Schenectady	1,530	8
Schoharie	104	3
Schuyler	111	2
Seneca	139	4
St. Lawrence	379	3
Steuben	929	14
Suffolk	48,399	91
Sullivan	1,714	5
Tioga	512	10
Tompkins	585	6
Ulster	2,450	14
Warren	445	1
Washington	327	1
Wayne	408	8
Westchester	39,890	101
Wyoming	177	3
Yates	107	5