BY MARK HALLUM
Governor Andrew
Cuomo expanded on
preliminary results to a
statewide COVID-19 antibody
tested program
that has found that 24.7%
of New York City residents
had the virus at
some point in the course
of the pandemic.
The Monday announcement
was a follow
up to last week’s
update that said about
21% of city dwellers had
antibodies out of statewide
pool of about 3,000.
These, however, were
only preliminary results,
according to the
governor.
The new pool consists
of 7,500 New Yorkers
from Buffalo to Montauk
with men being more
likely than women to be
infected; 16.9% for males
and 13.1% for females, according
to Cuomo. That
is with women consisting
of 52 percent of the
testing sample.
“Testing tells you
where we are, right? And
whether the infection
rate is going up or going
down,” Cuomo said.
“7,500 is a very signifi -
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cant number and it gives
us a snapshot of where
we are. It’s just a snapshot…
but if you look at
the different pictures
and you have a movie at
one point and you can
track what is happening.”
Compare these results
to the “rest of
state,” which consists of
35.9% of New Yorkers in
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo provides a coronavirus update
during a press conference in the Red Room at the State Capitol.
(Mike Groll/Offi ce of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
the study, to New York
City, consisting of 43% of
the study, the percentage
of those living upstate
who tested positive was
3.2%.
On Sunday, Cuomo
said New York could begin
to un-PAUSE in two
phases starting May 15.
This came after the
Centers for Disease Control
advised governments
that they could
begin reopening after a
14-day decrease in hospitalizations,
to which
the Cuomo administration
devised a two-phase
plan.
The fi rst phase would
mean bringing construction
and manufacturing
activities with
low risk to come back
online, and after a two
week period of monitoring
infection rates,
grant businesses the opportunity
to decide for
themselves whether or
not to ease back into operations.
Whether or not businesses
should reopen
should be assessed on
two planes, Cuomo said
Sunday: “How essential
a service does that business
provide and how
risky is that business.”
As of Monday, 17,303
New Yorkers statewide
have died from coronavirus
including 337 since
yesterday alone. But the
numbers continue on the
downward trend.
This story fi rst appeared
on amNY.com
Almost 25% of NYC residents test
positive for COVID-19 antibodies: Cuomo
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Story excerpt: La Morada at 308 Willis Ave., in Mott Haven,
is run by Natalia Mendez and her husband Antonio Saavedra
and their kids, Carolina, Yajaira and Marco. Yajaira told
the Bronx Times when the citywide shutdown happened
they stayed open briefl y, but remained closed until April
14. However, knowing many people in the low-income south
Bronx were struggling fi nancially, they sprang to action. The
family, which is undocumented, has been cooking nonstop
and delivering food to churches, shelters and people in the
neighborhood. (Read more at BXTIMES.com)
Photo courtesy of La Morada
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