WATCH LIVE: Hochul is delivering her first COVID briefing Monday since lifting most state mask mandates weeks ago amid fresh worries over the emergence of an omicron variant descendant, one that appears to be even more contagious.
A few months ago, the state was seeing 400 new cases per 100,000 residents.
Most encouraging: COVID hospitalizations remain starkly down. On Sunday, Hochul reported 900 hospitalizations statewide, the lowest total since Aug. 2. Daily deaths are also quite stably low, though the state says it's prepared to adapt as needed. The Democrat delivered her remarks from the noted Wadsworth Center, one of the premier genomic sequencing labs in the country that has been working to isolate COVID strains, among other pandemic efforts, for the last two-plus years.isn't exactly new -- but it is expected to become the dominant U.S. strain, experts have said. There's no evidence at this point BA.
New York's breakthrough data, for example, lags by a few weeks, so there's no data on breakthrough cases for fully vaccinated residents available post-omicron plunge., which was last updated the first week of March, shows no increase at that point, with a reinfection rate of 0.7 per 100,000 residents reported. That was stable compared with the prior week and down slightly over two weeks.
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