(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The number of new coronary patients hospitalized in New York State more than doubled in 3 weeks
China News Agency, New York, November 23. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said on the 23rd that as of the 22nd, the number of patients with new coronary pneumonia hospitalized in New York State reached 2,724, an increase of 122% in the past three weeks.
Cuomo said at a press conference in Albany that day that a total of 1,227 patients with new coronary pneumonia were hospitalized in New York State on November 2.
If the development continues at the current rate, the more than one month period between Thanksgiving and New Year will be "very dangerous."
Como strongly urges New York residents not to travel or party between Thanksgiving and New Year.
He said that although New York State is among the best in the U.S., people must not take it lightly. "If we change our mode of action, the rate of (virus) infection will also change."
The new crown pneumonia epidemic in the United States has deteriorated rapidly recently.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, more than 3.1 million new crown cases have been confirmed in the United States since November.
With the approach of Thanksgiving, one of the most important holidays for Americans, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and some federal and local officials are calling on people to avoid travel or gatherings.
However, the Associated Press reported that according to the US Transportation Security Administration, the US aviation industry carried nearly 1.048 million passengers on the 22nd, setting a record for the number of passengers carried in a single day since mid-March.
From the 20th to the 22nd, the U.S. aviation industry carried more than 3 million passengers.
Cuomo said that the overall positive rate of virus testing in New York State is around 3%, but the state varies greatly from region to region.
For example, in Lancaster Town, Erie County, the positive rate was as high as 9.68%; but in Cooper Town, Ossego County, the positive rate was only 0.24%.
He believes that different communities have different efforts to implement epidemic prevention measures, which is the main reason for this difference.
Como once again called on residents to strictly follow the epidemic prevention guidelines provided by the health department.
He also reminded people not to be overly optimistic about the recent good news about the new crown vaccine, because it is estimated that there are still several months before the vaccine is widely available.
The New York Times stated that although private dinners and gatherings can indeed spread the virus, some epidemic prevention experts believe that it is currently impossible to determine whether the recent sharp increase in cases is mainly from small-scale private gatherings. According to the report, in the current severe epidemic in the United States, the virus can be transmitted in various ways, and people are at risk on various occasions. Many states do not do enough to track the contact history of cases, so it is almost impossible to determine where the risk is higher. Some experts worry that under such circumstances, local governments' indiscriminate attention to the risks of private gatherings may obscure the real focus of epidemic prevention. (Finish)