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Holidays could
cause COVID spike
Cuomo tells New Yorkers to take caution
BY MARK HALLUM
As sure as people will gain weight
during the holidays, there will be a
considerable spike across the state in
COVID-19 infection rates, Governor
Andrew Cuomo said during his Sunday
press conference.
With New York City coming in at a
current rate of 5.46%, the governor believes
that New Yorkers need to carry
a mindfulness about their community’s
infection rate which will see discernible
increases in the fi rst week of
December after Thanksgiving.
“I think after New Year’s Eve,
Jan. 2, Jan. 10, Jan. 15, then you’ll see
the collective impact of all 37 days,”
Cuomo said. “The rate goes up, there
are more restrictions to slow the economy,
that’s bad for business… You
overburden the hospital system…
More people will die the more a rate
goes up. Unless you are extremely casual
about human life, it matters.”
The vaccine which could come in
December or January will fi rst go to
high risk communities such as those
in nursing homes and that it could be
six months before the general population
are inoculated against COVID-19
and deaths continue to mount.
As of Nov. 21, there were 30 deaths
in New York — still a far cry from the
800 per day seen in May, but no less
tragic.
Upper Manhattan is expected to
become a yellow zone for the holiday,
the governor said. Parts of Staten Island
could also be declared orange or
red zones if the seven-day average remains
above 3%.
There are 420 sites across the fi ve
boroughs, many of which are CityMD
locations where the volume of patients
can be seen stretching around blocks
at times.
On the matter of reports that there
was a wedding in New York City over
the weekend with up to 7,000 attendees,
Cuomo said his administration
and the city would not only investigate,
but hold the organizers accountable.
According to Cuomo, state leaders
had worked to halt a wedding of similar
size held by members of the Orthodox
Jewish community and said that
if their response was to hold a “secret”
wedding of similar size, he would feel
“deceived” by Hasidic leaders.
“It was also disrespectful to the
people of New York,” Cuomo said. “We
literally stopped a wedding a couple of
nights before which was going to be a
very large wedding. If it turns out that
because we stopped that wedding, the
reactions was ‘well, we’ll have a secret
wedding.’ That would be really shocking
and totally deceitful of the conversations
that I had, I had personal
conversations with members of the
community. But put that aside – I’ve
been deceived many times – and the
city should do a robust investigation…
We’ll bring the full consequence of legal
action to bear.”
In anticipation for a winter spike in
COVID-19, the governor has ordered
that bars and restaurants can no longer
serve indoors after 10 p.m., with
delivery options allowed. This has
come with the expectation that more
closures will be put in place as the
numbers change.
This story fi rst appeared on amny.
com.
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