Two omicron subvariants of the highly transmissible BA.2 strain are fueling “significant community spread” in parts of New York, state health officials say, calling their data the first charting such subvariant transmission rates in the U.S.
As of Friday, Central New York owns the highest rolling positivity and case rates per 100,000 residents of all 10 New York regions, and it's not even close. The rolling case rate for the region that includes Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga and Oswego counties has a 12.4% rolling positivity rate, well above the next closest and dwarfing the rolling rate in New York City .
New cases and new hospitalizations with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 among fully vaccinated and unvaccinated adults, and estimated vaccine effectiveness, age 18 years or older.Central New York's reinfection rate "We are alerting the public to two omicron subvariants, newly emerged and rapidly spreading in upstate New York, so New Yorkers can act swiftly," State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett said."While these subvariants are new, the tools to combat them are not. These tools will work if we each use them."
The so-called "stealth" omicron variant BA.2, which is fueling a fresh COVID case uptick locally, nationally and abroad, now accounts for 84% of virus circulating in the New York region. NBC New York's Greg Cergol reports.
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