A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine in New York City.
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The troubling rise in recent
COVID-19 cases across
Brooklyn has seemingly leveled
off, yet the borough continues
to lag behind other New
York City areas in vaccination
rates.
Kings County has recorded
563 new cases per-day over
the seven day period ending
on Aug. 28, marking a slight
decline from the three-month
peak of 630 infections per-day
recorded earlier in the month,
according to Health Department
data.
Each day over that seven
day stretch, 19 Brooklynites
were hospitalized, and three
died, due to COVID-19 infections.
Across the Five Boroughs,
the city recorded 1,721 new
cases, 68 hospitalizations, and
11 deaths each day between
Aug. 22 and Aug. 28.
Much of the driver behind
Brooklyn’s relatively porous
efforts to curb COVID-19 rests
with the comparatively low vaccination
rates among borough
residents.
Brooklyn and the Bronx
are tied for last among the percapita
number of residents who
have received the jab — with
both boroughs seeing just 57
percent of locals receiving at
least one dose of the vaccine.
The same measure sees
Staten Island with 61 percent,
Queens with 72 percent, and
Manhattan with an impressive
76 percent of inoculated residents.
Citywide, 65 percent of New
Yorkers are partially vaccinated,
and 58 percent are fully
immunized.
In Brooklyn, the Health Department
recorded 1,468,378
people with at least one dose,
out of 2,559,903 total residents.
The lower rates of dose distribution
are not evenly spread
across the borough, however
— with much of central and
southern Brooklyn lagging behind
the northern half of Kings
County.
Sunset Park’s 11220 Zip
Code — which includes Brooklyn’s
Chinatown — has seen 87
percent of residents inoculated,
which is more than any other
in the borough.
Likewise, Zip Codes covering
affl uent neighborhoods like
Brooklyn Heights and Greenpoint
have seen high rates of
vaccination, with 81 percent
and 78 percent of locals receiving
at least one dose, respectively.
Rounding out the top fi ve
Zip codes in Brooklyn are Prospect
Heights’ 11238 at 76 percent,
and Park Slope’s 11215 at
70 percent.
On the other end of the spectrum,
Zip Codes covering Borough
Park, Bedford-Stuyvesant,
Midwood, Crown Heights,
and Canarsie have seen lower
inoculation rates than the citywide
total — ranging from 43 to
47 percent of residents receiving
at least one dose.
The COVID-19 numbers
come as New York City public
schools gear up for a return to
full in-person learning, when
thousands of children — including
kids under the age of
12, who are all unvaccinated —
will return to the classroom on
Sept. 13.
Outside of the classroom, offi
cials are hopeful that vaccination
rates will increase once a
similar mandate takes effect on
Sept. 13 requiring all patrons of
indoor restaurants, bars, gyms,
museums, and more to provide
proof of vaccination.
By the numbers
Brooklyn’s COVID cases stabilize, but
borough’s vaccination rate still lags
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