Governor Hochul Provides December 28, 2021 Update to New Yorkers on State’s Progress Combating COVID-19
96,049 Vaccine Doses Administered Over Last 24 Hours 77 COVID-19 Deaths Statewide Governor Kathy Hochul today updated New Yorkers on the state’s progress combating COVID-19. “With just three days left in the year, let’s make a New Year’s resolution to beat this pandemic in 2022,” Governor Hochul said. “Let’s start by celebrating New Year’s safely this weekend. Before visiting friends and family, please get yourself tested and make sure you are vaccinated and boosted, if eligible. Please remember to wear a mask when gathering with others. If we all do what’s right, we can make 2022 a very different year from the hardships we’ve had to endure so far.” Today’s data is summarized briefly below. Test Results Reported – 210,996 Total Positive – 40,780 Percent Positive – 19.33% 7-Day Average Percent Positive – 13.36% Patient Hospitalization – 6,173 (+647) Patients Newly Admitted – 1,148 Patients in ICU – 945 (+32) Patients in ICU with Intubation – 519 (+18) Total Discharges – 227,712 (+457) New deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS – 77 Total deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS – 48,150 The Health Electronic Response Data System is a NYS DOH data source that collects confirmed daily death data as reported by hospitals, nursing homes and adult care facilities only. Total deaths reported to and compiled by the CDC – 61,084 This daily COVID-19 provisional death certificate data reported by NYS DOH and NYC to the CDC includes those who died in any location, including hospitals, nursing homes, adult care facilities, at home, in hospice and other settings. Total vaccine doses administered – 33,229,440 Total vaccine doses administered over past 24 hours – 96,049 Total vaccine doses administered over past 7 days – 680,721 Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose – 88.7% Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series – 80.4% Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) – 95.0% Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series (CDC) – 82.7% Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose – 77.5% Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series – 69.5% Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) – 83.4% Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series (CDC) – 71.5% Each region’s 7-day average of cases per 100K population is as follows Region Saturday, December 25, 2021 Sunday, December 26, 2021 Monday, December 27, 2021 Capital Region 72.50 69.65 70.19 Central New York 73.28 70.52 70.06 Finger Lakes 54.51 52.60 52.17 Long Island 216.10 221.05 234.68 Mid-Hudson 140.16 141.03 152.56 Mohawk Valley 64.44 59.52 55.05 New York City 256.70 262.01 285.85 North Country 46.44 43.27 42.83 Southern Tier 70.34 66.75 63.32 Western New York 68.37 68.80 71.52 Statewide 178.37 180.82 194.36 Each region’s 7-day average percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows: Region Saturday, December 25, 2021 Sunday, December 26, 2021 Monday, December 27, 2021 Capital Region 9.23% 9.47% 9.96% Central New York 9.05% 9.19% 9.38% Finger Lakes 8.85% 9.16% 9.45% Long Island 14.79% 15.42% 16.26% Mid-Hudson 11.04% 11.55% 12.53% Mohawk Valley 9.40% 9.17% 9.43% New York City 11.76% 12.63% 13.70% North Country 7.07% 6.92% 7.10% Southern Tier 7.89% 7.87% 8.01% Western New York 9.69% 10.03% 10.55% Statewide 11.70% 12.41% 13.36% Each New York City borough’s 7-day average percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows: Borough in NYC Saturday, December 25, 2021 Sunday, December 26, 2021 Monday, December 27, 2021 Bronx 13.78% 14.96% 16.46% Kings 11.47% 12.29% 13.32% New York 10.50% 11.04% 11.87% Queens 12.70% 13.63% 14.65% Richmond 12.34% 13.17% 14.08% Yesterday, 40,780 New Yorkers tested positive for COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 3,251,712. A geographic breakdown is as follows: County Total Positive New Positive Albany 39,492 216 Allegany 6,881 16 Broome 32,524 128 Cattaraugus 11,323 23 Cayuga 11,059 11 Chautauqua 17,325 42 Chemung 14,657 34 Chenango 6,559 20 Clinton 9,568 35 Columbia 6,752 61 Cortland 7,024 15 Delaware 5,338 6 Dutchess 43,436 278 Erie 142,843 776 Essex 3,537 7 Franklin 6,290 10 Fulton 8,874 16 Genesee 9,940 18 Greene 5,875 35 Hamilton 591 7 Herkimer 9,835 51 Jefferson 12,949 46 Lewis 4,696 8 Livingston 8,299 8 Madison 8,717 14 Monroe 109,989 289 Montgomery 8,150 5 Nassau 274,475 3,523 Niagara 33,283 166 NYC 1,418,247 27,774 Oneida 37,851 81 Onondaga 68,287 309 Ontario 13,675 35 Orange 71,387 461 Orleans 6,346 19 Oswego 16,628 35 Otsego 6,452 13 Putnam 15,124 20 Rensselaer 20,431 124 Rockland 62,396 679 Saratoga 29,483 126 Schenectady 21,635 24 Schoharie 3,310 4 Schuyler 2,353 4 Seneca 3,819 4 St. Lawrence 14,885 34 Steuben 14,364 12 Suffolk 303,339 2,811 Sullivan 11,459 61 Tioga 7,416 11 Tompkins 11,030 20 Ulster 21,676 111 Warren 8,782 34 Washington 8,049 20 Wayne 12,010 21 Westchester 172,563 2,049 Wyoming 6,109 17 Yates 2,325 3 Given the rate of spread of Omicron, it is more meaningful to now report the percentage of Omicron variants as reported to the public COVID-19 sequence databases, than continue to report counts of individual cases. This percentage can then be related to the total positive COVID case count in the state. This process is consistent with how the New York State Department of Health has reported on all other variants online: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-variant-data Data this morning in the GISAID database, the largest repository of SARS-CoV-2 sequences in the world, show the Omicron variant comprised 73.3% of uploaded sequences from NYS between 12/14/21 and 12/27/21. This is a further increase from that previously reported and is ongoing evidence of the rate of spread of this variant. It should be noted that similar data reported from the CDC, updated this week, uses a statistical model to project the variant percentages for a more recent timeframe. This projection approach partly explains a higher percentage for the Omicron variant reported by CDC this week. Over Saturday and Sunday, 77 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19, bringing the totalcompiled by HERDS to 48,150. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence: Deaths by County of Residence Bronx 8 Clinton
