THE WORLD READS WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER — 8,324,077 VISITS IN ONE YEAR

“On this New Years Eve I wish everyone a safe and healthy celebration,” Governor Hochul said. “It was a difficult year for so many New Yorkers, lets do the right thing and get vaccinated, and let’s welcome the new year with lots of good health and happiness. If we work together and get vaccinated, we can make 2022 the year we beat the pandemic.”

Today’s data is summarized briefly below:

• Test Results Reported – 339,853
• Total Positive – 76,555
• Percent Positive – 22.53%
• 7-Day Average Percent Positive – 17.91%
• Patient Hospitalization – 7,919 (+546)
• Patients Newly Admitted – 1,718
• Patients in ICU – 1,072 (+52)
• Patients in ICU with Intubation – 525 (+7)
• Total Discharges – 230,850 (+1,194)
• New deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS – 80
• Total deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS – 48,405
  
  The Health Electronic Response Data System is a NYS DOH data source that collects confirmed daily death data as reported by hospitals, nursing homes and adult care facilities only.
• Total deaths reported to and compiled by the CDC – 61,242
  
  This daily COVID-19 provisional death certificate data reported by NYS DOH and NYC to the CDC includes those who died in any location, including hospitals, nursing homes, adult care facilities, at home, in hospice and other settings.

• Total vaccine doses administered – 33,651,483
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 24 hours -137,298
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 7 days -671,674
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose – 89.2%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series – 80.6%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) – 95.0%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series (CDC) – 82.8%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose – 78.0%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series – 69.7%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) – 84.0%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series (CDC) – 71.8%

Each region’s 7-day average of cases per 100K population is as follows

Region	Tuesday, December 28, 2021	Wednesday, December 29, 2021	Thursday, December 30, 2021
Capital Region	82.78	90.85	109.33
Central New York	82.01	91.69	107.14
Finger Lakes	62.24	72.95	86.33
Long Island	264.56	293.16	321.72
Mid-Hudson	184.06	209.51	233.52
Mohawk Valley	70.21	77.48	85.34
New York City	323.90	359.92	387.27
North Country	47.46	52.13	64.27
Southern Tier	73.14	78.67	91.08
Western New York	83.90	101.55	121.42
Statewide	222.26	248.11	271.60

Each region’s 7-day average percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

Region	Tuesday, December 28, 2021	Wednesday, December 29, 2021	Thursday, December 30, 2021
Capital Region	10.43%	11.53%	13.41%
Central New York	9.63%	11.29%	13.04%
Finger Lakes	10.18%	11.87%	13.91%
Long Island	17.32%	18.78%	20.75%
Mid-Hudson	13.72%	15.39%	16.97%
Mohawk Valley	9.39%	10.44%	11.37%
New York City	15.25%	16.90%	18.58%
North Country	7.19%	8.21%	10.51%
Southern Tier	8.21%	9.51%	11.11%
Western New York	11.72%	13.29%	15.02%
Statewide	14.61%	16.21%	17.91%

Each New York City borough’s 7-day average percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

Borough in NYC	Tuesday, December 28, 2021	Wednesday, December 29, 2021	Thursday, December 30, 2021
Bronx	18.54%	20.77%	22.99%
Kings	14.67%	16.21%	17.72%
New York	13.23%	14.51%	15.62%
Queens	16.22%	17.98%	19.78%
Richmond	15.84%	17.38%	19.49%

Yesterday, 76,555 New Yorkers tested positive for COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 3,469,564. A geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	41,133	701
Allegany	6,979	22
Broome	33,512	382
Cattaraugus	11,497	48
Cayuga	11,419	105
Chautauqua	17,677	132
Chemung	15,092	147
Chenango	6,717	80
Clinton	9,900	156
Columbia	6,954	56
Cortland	7,256	92
Delaware	5,499	45
Dutchess	45,626	722
Erie	148,889	2,182
Essex	3,694	70
Franklin	6,382	34
Fulton	8,990	52
Genesee	10,090	66
Greene	6,031	91
Hamilton	605	8
Herkimer	10,031	103
Jefferson	13,131	98
Lewis	4,740	22
Livingston	8,462	91
Madison	8,976	107
Monroe	112,311	1,290
Montgomery	8,306	76
Nassau	287,304	6,861
Niagara	33,937	376
NYC	1,501,823	43,985
Oneida	38,828	416
Onondaga	69,885	844
Ontario	13,970	136
Orange	74,497	1,598
Orleans	6,421	34
Oswego	17,021	177
Otsego	6,585	42
Putnam	16,221	467
Rensselaer	20,809	174
Rockland	65,029	1,207
Saratoga	30,360	387
Schenectady	22,221	252
Schoharie	3,388	35
Schuyler	2,391	26
Seneca	3,917	36
St. Lawrence	15,053	101
Steuben	14,558	99
Suffolk	313,688	5,772
Sullivan	12,011	268
Tioga	7,585	81
Tompkins	11,325	191
Ulster	22,112	200
Warren	8,986	93
Washington	8,248	103
Wayne	12,231	102
Westchester	179,080	3,409
Wyoming	6,198	32
Yates	2,368	21

Given the rate of spread of Omicron, it is more meaningful to report the percentage of Omicron variants as reported to the public COVID-19 sequence databases, than to report counts of individual cases. This percentage can then be related to the total positive COVID case count in the state. This process is consistent with how the New York State Department of Health has reported on all other variants online: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-variant-data

Data this morning in the GISAID database, the largest repository of SARS-CoV-2 sequences in the world, show the Omicron variant comprised 89% of uploaded sequences from NYS between 12/17/21 and 12/30/21. This is a significant increase from the 78% announced yesterday, which covered 12/16/2021 to 12/29/2021, and evidence of the ongoing rapid spread of this variant.

It should be noted that similar data reported from the CDC, updated this week, uses a statistical model to project the variant percentages for a more recent timeframe. This projection approach partly explains the different percentage for the Omicron variant reported by CDC this week.

Yesterday, 80 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19, bringing the total compiled by HERDS to 48,405. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:

Deaths by County of Residence
County	New Deaths
Bronx	11
Broome	1
Cattaraugus	2
Chemung	1
Cortland	1
Dutchess	1
Erie	1
Fulton	1
Genesee	2
Kings	15
Madison	1
Manhattan	7
Monroe	3
Nassau	7
Niagara	2
Oneida	4
Onondaga	2
Ontario	2
Orange	2
Queens	4
Rockland	2
Seneca	1
Suffolk	3
Westchester	4

All New York State mass vaccination sites are open to eligible New Yorkers aged 12 years and older for walk-in vaccination on a first-come, first-serve basis, with 10 sites open to eligible New Yorkers aged 5 and older. People who would prefer to schedule an appointment at a state-run mass vaccination site can do so on the Am I Eligible Appor by calling 1-833-NYS-4-VAX. People may also contact their local health department, pharmacy, doctor or hospital to schedule appointments where vaccines are available, or visit vaccines.govto find information on vaccine appointments near them.

New Yorkers looking to schedule vaccine appointments for 5-11-year-old children are encouraged to contact their child’s pediatrician, family physician, county health departments, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), rural health centers, or pharmacies that may be administering the vaccine for this age group. Parents and guardians can visit vaccines.gov, text their ZIP code to 438829, or call 1-800-232-0233 to find nearby locations. Make sure that the provider offers the Pfizer-BioNTechCOVID-19 vaccine, as the other COVID-19 vaccines are not yet authorized for this age group.

Visit our new website for parents and guardians for new information, frequently asked questions and answers, and resources specifically designed for parents and guardians of this age group.

Yesterday, 31,900 New Yorkers received their first vaccine dose, and 16,560 completed their vaccine series. A geographic breakdown of New Yorkers who have been vaccinated by region is as follows:

	People with at least one vaccine dose	People with complete vaccine series
Region	Cumulative Total	Increase over past 24 hours	Cumulative Total	Increase over past 24 hours
Capital Region	940,201	1,285	856,037	786
Central New York	629,245	578	580,937	387
Finger Lakes	837,938	935	772,692	810
Long Island	2,092,081	4,101	1,844,727	1,856
Mid-Hudson	1,635,792	2,900	1,425,226	1,398
Mohawk Valley	316,723	290	292,691	256
New York City	7,634,893	19,846	6,685,458	9,616
North Country	294,384	228	265,316	275
Southern Tier	426,703	575	389,628	382
Western New York	924,595	1,162	843,249	794
Statewide	15,732,555	31,900	13,955,961	16,560

Booster/Additional Shots
Region	Cumulative Total	Increase over past 24 hours	Increase over past 7  days
Capital Region	356,734	4,772	22,397
Central New York	224,725	3,025	15,328
Finger Lakes	360,598	4,601	23,056
Long Island	679,626	10,572	51,402
Mid-Hudson	552,095	7,953	40,058
Mohawk Valley	123,528	1,677	8,146
New York City	1,691,119	38,185	183,200
North Country	105,238	1,624	7,259
Southern Tier	164,835	2,630	11,348
Western New York	400,638	4,614	23,700
Statewide	4,659,136	79,653	385,894

The COVID-19VaccineTracker Dashboardis available to update New Yorkers on the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. The New York State Department of Health requires vaccinating facilities to report all COVID-19 vaccine administration data within 24 hours; the vaccine administration data on the dashboard is updated daily to reflect the most up-to-date metrics in the state’s vaccination effort. New York State Department of Health-reported data from NYSIIS and CIR differs slightly from federally-reported data, which is inclusive of federally-administered doses and other minor differences. Both numbers are included in the release above.

WPCNR CORONAVIRUS MONITOR. From the New York State Covid Trackerhhich reports testing results on a 2-day delay with observations from John Bailey. December 30, 2021:

Long lines at testing facilies wrapped around the block into the City Center Garage on North Broadway this afternoon in White Plains are vivid scemes of the anxiety of the omnipresence of the Omicron Covid Varient racing through Westchester and the 6 other counties in the Mid-Hudson region. Covid cases are spreading at a faster daily rate ever the 22 months of the pandemic.

The City of White Plains was giving away K95 maskes at the Youth Burea on Amherst Place this afternoon, received from Westchester County in a effort to help protect citizens against the variant.

There is not way to downplay how fast the omicronvariant is working Westchester over.

Westchester reported 3,108 Tests on Sunday and Monday reported 3,408 sustaining an infectionrate of 24% positives on 14,122 tested. The smaller counties in the Mid-Hudson Valley continued to surge beyond their low levels previously at the same rates. Orange County is second with 1,598 new cases . Rockland reported 1,207, slightly down from 1,426 Sunday. Observers should understand that the state tracker reports on a 2-day delay.

Nassau and Suffolk posted a 25% infection rate. Nassau had 6,861 test positive of 6,861 tested a 24% infection rate. Suffolk reported 5,772 positives on 23,372 tested, a 24.7% infection rate . For one week, Nassau and Suffolk have averaged infection rates over 15%. This will produce thousands of new infections and hundreds of hospitalizations if the omicron turns out to be affect the unvaccinated more seriously.