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Cuomo warns of COVID-19 spike after holidays
BY MARK HALLUM
MHALLUM@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
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 percent, 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 aft er Thanksgiving.
“I think aft er 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 percent.
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 aft er 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.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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