(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The New York State Government responds to the State Attorney General's report: data on deaths from new coronary pneumonia is always open and transparent
China News Service, New York, January 29. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and State Department of Health Director Howard Zucker (Howard Zucker) reported on the 29th recently released by the New York State Attorney General Letitia James. Responded, saying that New York State's official data on deaths from new coronary pneumonia has been open and transparent.
The day before, Zhan Lexia released a report saying that after comparing the number of new coronary pneumonia-related deaths in 62 nursing homes in New York State and the corresponding data released by the State Department of Health, it was found that the data from the State Department of Health was nearly 56% lower than the data reported by nursing homes.
Cuomo held a press conference in Albany on the 29th to report on the epidemic. He and Zac responded to questions related to the report.
Zach said that relevant data from the State Department of Health has been open and transparent.
The Department of Health has previously clearly pointed out that residents of nursing homes who have contracted new coronary pneumonia have died in the hospital; the Department of Health has been working hard to calculate the number of these dead and will speed up the calculation in the future.
He emphasized that there is no problem with the total number of deaths in New York State.
Cuomo said that the State Department of Health has been categorizing and counting cases according to the final place of death from beginning to end, and has been advancing epidemic prevention work in accordance with federal regulations. "The Department of Health has done its best at different times to give the best Epidemic prevention guidance." He said that this is not to shirk responsibility, but that he does not want the staff of the Department of Health to become a "political ball" kicked around.
In terms of the epidemic situation, on January 28, New York State completed more than 270,000 new coronavirus tests, with a positive rate of 4.65%; 8,357 new coronary pneumonia patients were hospitalized, 1543 were in intensive care, and 151 died.
Among the hospitalized patients, the number of patients in New York City and Long Island exceeds 60% of the total.
There are currently more than 1.7 million doses of new crown vaccine in New York State, of which more than 1.4 million are the first dose and more than 315,000 are the second dose.
As of the 29th, 73% of health care workers in New York State had been vaccinated.
Cuomo announced at the press conference that dine-in business in New York City restaurants will resume on February 14th, with the number of people limited to 25% of the restaurant's rated capacity.
New York State residents can apply for a larger-scale indoor wedding banquet from March 15th, and the number of participants cannot exceed 50% of the venue's rated number; for venues with a rated number of more than 300 people, the number of participants cannot exceed 150.
In addition, the wedding banquet must be approved by the local health department, and all guests must be tested for the new coronavirus.
He emphasized that once the available medical capacity in a certain area reaches the 15% "red line" set by the state government, the area's epidemic prevention measures will be tightened again.
On the 27th of this month, Como announced that the peak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic brought by Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holidays has ended. The government will adjust the strictness of epidemic prevention measures as appropriate to help restore the economy.
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