NYC’s Covid Alert Level Was Raised to Medium
Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bath Beach are in dark red on the map. (See full map here)
On the positive side – hospitalizations for our area haven’t been high in the last 14 days (compared to Coney Island which has 25 per 10000 people)
And deaths have been down as well.
Why did NYC they raise the level? A new subvariant called BA2121 is 25% more contagious, but is not more deadly. In Upstate NY, this variant is common. NY 1 reported that there are 50 Covid patients in 11 hospitals. Only 5 people are in the ICU’s.
Transmission rates have increased in our area, so that is the reason for the raised level.
Yellow – NYC is encouraging people to wear masks indoors.
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Hugs,
marlene
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