Top Republicans and some Democrats in New York are blasting Gov. Andrew Cuomo after the New York Post reported one of his top aides privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the real number of nursing home deaths from COVID-19, saying they feared the Trump administration would use those numbers against them.
Vaccinations top 106,000 in 24 hours in N.Y. amid continued progress on pandemic | The Daily Gazette
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ALBANY The state reported more progress in the COVID-19 pandemic Thursday, with the lowest one-day positive test rate since late November and more than 100,000 people vaccinated in 24 hours.
The number of people hospitalized with the virus, meanwhile, is still high but is declining. Albany Medical Center, the Capital Region’s largest hospital, said its COVID-positive patient census on Thursday dropped below 100 for the first time since late December. And 32 of its 98 COVID patients are non-infectious.
Statewide, 285,499 diagnostic tests were administered Wednesday, the second most in a single day in New York, and the positivity rate was 3.54%, lowest since Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving. The seven-day average positive rate, a better gauge of the pandemic’s progress, was 4.16%, the lowest since Dec. 1.