Key NYC COVID metric inches above acceptability level: de Blasio
The weekly average of reported COVID-19 cases in New York City inched past the city’s self-imposed acceptability threshold Wednesday.
Mayor de Blasio said at his daily press briefing that the average daily number of reported COVID cases over a 7-day stretch hit 552, two cases more than the city’s threshold of 550.
The other two key metrics the city uses to measure COVID’s impact — the number of people admitted to city hospitals for COVID and the percentage of city residents who tested positive — remained below their respective thresholds Wednesday.
Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday that a surge in all three indicators would be cause for concern, but suggested an uptick in one is not.
“What we’re most concerned about is when we see them all move in unison,” he said. “We’ve been encouraging testing. So, it’s natural, if you have a lot more testing, even if your positivity level stays low, you’re going to have a higher number of pure positive cases. If this were happening in concert with the other two indicators, we would be very concerned and we’d be taking additional actions.”
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