Adams says NYC’s COVID-alert status is ‘medium’ — yet threat is almost completely gone

[Kamaji]

Adams says NYC’s COVID-alert status is ‘medium’ — yet threat is almost completely gone

By NY Post Editorial Board
June 25, 2022

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden called for more spending (when doesn’t he call for that?) to prepare for a “second pandemic,” yet officials in places like New York don’t even want to let go of the first one.

On the very same day, Mayor Eric Adams and Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan boasted that they could now lower the city’s pandemic alert status to “medium,” since “we are winning the fight against COVID-19.”

Huh? For much of the public, that fight was won long ago. By now, COVID is a mere background threat, causing far less serious illness and death than other diseases. On Tuesday, the number of COVID deaths was just 56 nationwide; cancer claims 1,600 lives a day.

In the city, meanwhile, the seven-day average of confirmed daily COVID deaths Wednesday was just four — about the same as the average number of daily shootings this year. And with fatalities from the virus falling even more each day, crime is clearly becoming a greater threat. What’s the city’s crime alert status?

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/06/25/adams-says-nycs-covid-alert-status-is-medium-yet-threat-is-almost-gone/

[PeteS in CA]

Looking at Worldometers' data for NY, the April-May cases bump is over, was very mild, and there pretty much was no bump in deaths. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/new-york/