NY’s leaders still in denial on COVID realityBy NY Post Editorial Board
May 17, 2022
How long will it take for New York’s leaders to catch up with evolving COVID reality?
The state is spending taxpayer cash to distribute 16.5 million tests, which at this point are utterly pointless as any sort of population-wide effort to limit the spread.
Testing makes sense in limited circumstances, e.g. as a condition of visiting a nursing home full of higher-risk seniors. But more generally, by the time someone tests positive, they’ve most likely interacted with others; slightly broader testing (which is all a few million extra tests allows) won’t limit the spread.
Yes, statewide hospitalizations with COVID are up from their March 31 low of 817 to 2,497 on Sunday, but roughly half (or a bit more) of those are people hospitalized for something else who simply test positive. And deaths with COVID hit 30 that day, in a state of over 19 million.
If you have symptoms, stay home; the rest of the household should get tested; that’s about it. The crisis is over.
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https://nypost.com/2022/05/17/nys-leaders-still-in-denial-on-covid-reality/
