Governor Cuomo Updates New Yorkers on State's Progress During COVID-19 Pandemic

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today updated New Yorkers on the state's progress during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

"Everybody has an opinion on COVID. We have facts, and that's the way we make decisions. We've seen this movie before. We said the COVID rate would increase over the fall because that's what was diagnosed. All the experts said you get into the fall, what you're going to see is the weather gets colder, college students come home, fewer outdoor gatherings, and COVID will go up. They diagnosed that, and that is exactly what we're seeing," Governor Cuomo said. "We have tremendous increases statewide that have been going up through the fall. We now have an added problem where we're going through Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving will be an added accelerant because people travel and there's more social activity. The more social activity, the more the infection rate goes up. We are going to see an increase post-Thanksgiving. That is going to take a bad situation and make it worse. How much the numbers go up depends on how people perform. The global experts have all basically been recommending the same thing, which is start to develop a winter plan. And that's what we're going to be doing, and as we do that, it's more important than ever that New Yorkers continue to show their toughness and keep practicing all the behaviors we know will help stop the spread."

The Governor noted that the positive testing rate in all focus areas under the state's Micro-Cluster strategy is 5.28 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 3.04 percent. Within the focus areas, 44,453 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 2,345 positives. In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 128,632 test results were reported, yielding 3,920 positives. Full results for tests reported yesterday, the day prior, the current 7-day rolling average, and last two weeks is below:

STATEWIDE	11/8- 11/14 % Positive	11/15- 11/21 % Positive	Current 7-day rolling average	Day Prior (11/22) % Positive	Yesterday (11/23) % Positive


All focus area statewide % positive	4.81%	4.51%	4.44%	4.13%	5.28%
Statewide % positive with all focus areas included	2.86%	2.89%	2.93%	2.96%	3.62%
Statewide % positive without all focus areas included	2.47%	2.44%	2.48%	2.62%	3.04%

Micro-cluster zone 7-day average positivity rates for today, yesterday, the day before, last week, and the week prior is below:

FOCUS ZONE	11/8- 11/14 % Positive	11/15- 11/21 % Positive	Day Prior 7-day Rolling Average	Yesterday 7-day Rolling Average	Current 7-day Rolling average


Erie orange-zone focus area % positive	7.22%	7.30%	7.20%	7.02%	6.94%
Erie Yellow-zone focus area % positive	5.34%	7.36%	7.53%	7.52%	6.69%
Niagara Yellow -zone focus area % positive	5.10%	4.44%	4.53%	4.75%	5.56%
Monroe Orange-zone focus area % positive	4.41%	4.17%	4.26%	4.49%	4.72%
Monroe Yellow-zone focus area % positive	5.95%	3.58%	3.49%	3.47%	3.72%
Onondaga Orange-zone focus area % positive	6.26%	5.34%	5.45%	4.96%	4.91%
Onondaga Yellow-zone focus area % positive	6.03%	4.50%	4.28%	4.25%	4.23%
Queens Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills/Astoria yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.40%	3.40%	3.31%	3.19%	3.15%
Bronx East Yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.81%	3.52%	3.73%	3.81%	3.84%
Bronx West Yellow -zone focus area % positive	3.80%	4.70%	4.73%	4.58%	4.55%
Brooklyn Yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.92%	3.70%	3.85%	4.12%	4.44%
Rockland Yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.55%	3.39%	3.29%	3.15%	3.03%
Chemung Orange-zone focus area % positive	4.59%	4.71%	5.20%	5.03%	5.19%
Staten Island Orange-zone focus area % positive	5.24%	4.96%	5.17%	4.98%	4.99%
Staten Island Yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.75%	3.61%	3.68%	3.54%	3.65%
Tioga Yellow-zone focus area % positive	10.81%	5.60%	5.47%	3.00%	2.95%
Orange Middletown - Yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.81%	5.41%	3.84%	3.65%	3.52%
Orange Newburgh - Yellow-zone focus area % positive	8.07%	7.89%	8.68%	8.82%	8.78%
Manhattan-Washington Heights-Yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.23%	3.39%	3.42%	3.11%	2.98%
Nassau-Great Neck-Yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.69%	3.69%	3.47%	3.18%	3.45%
Nassau Massapequa Park -Yellow-zone focus area % positive	4.64%	4.15%	4.10%	3.55%	3.78%
Suffolk-Hampton Bays-Yellow-zone focus area % positive	9.26%	5.69%	5.37%	5.11%	5.24%
Suffolk-Riverhead-Yellow-zone focus area % positive	4.80%	4.85%	4.47%	4.63%	4.34%
Westchester Peekskill - Yellow-zone focus area % positive	10.36%	7.15%	7.29%	6.47%	6.73%
Westchester Ossining - Yellow-zone focus area % positive	9.88%	10.22%	10.11%	10.51%	9.86%
Westchester Tarrytown - Yellow-zone focus area % positive	8.47%	8.27%	8.80%	7.47%	7.40%
Westchester Yonkers - Yellow-zone focus area % positive	4.48%	4.11%	4.38%	4.35%	4.32%
Westchester New Rochelle - Yellow-zone focus area % positive	6.46%	5.68%	5.20%	4.99%	4.99%
Westchester Port Chester Orange-zone focus area % positive	9.34%	7.59%	7.94%	7.71%	7.81%

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

Patient Hospitalization - 2,982 (+126)
Patients Newly Admitted - 461
Hospital Counties - 52
Number ICU - 596 (+37)
Number ICU with Intubation - 277 (+14)
Total Discharges - 84,001 (+300)
Deaths - 41
Total Deaths - 26,482

Each region's percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

REGION	SUNDAY	MONDAY	TUESDAY	CURRENT 7-DAY AVERAGE
Capital Region	2.0%	3.2%	2.4%	2.25%
Central New York	3.6%	3.4%	4.6%	3.47%
Finger Lakes	3.6%	3.4%	5.8%	3.47%
Long Island	3.5%	3.4%	4.0%	3.30%
Mid-Hudson	4.2%	4.0%	4.2%	3.82%
Mohawk Valley	2.5%	5.3%	5.0%	3.05%
New York City	2.5%	2.5%	2.7%	2.49%
North Country	1.7%	3.7%	3.3%	1.95%
Southern Tier	1.8%	0.8%	2.0%	1.30%
Western New York	5.5%	5.8%	6.6%	5.21%

Each New York City borough's percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

BOROUGH	SUNDAY	MONDAY	TUESDAY	CURRENT 7-DAY AVERAGE
Bronx	3.4%	3.6%	3.9%	3.38%
Brooklyn	2.7%	2.4%	2.5%	2.33%
Manhattan	1.4%	1.7%	1.5%	1.64%
Queens	2.9%	2.6%	3.0%	2.71%
Staten Island	4.2%	3.7%	4.6%	4.03%

Of the 613,266 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	5,324	91
Allegany	907	38
Broome	5,054	71
Cattaraugus	956	37
Cayuga	783	21
Chautauqua	1,449	35
Chemung	2,769	45
Chenango	602	19
Clinton	434	4
Columbia	979	9
Cortland	951	38
Delaware	326	7
Dutchess	6,867	56
Erie	22,558	685
Essex	263	11
Franklin	245	2
Fulton	472	11
Genesee	845	26
Greene	655	9
Hamilton	41	1
Herkimer	616	13
Jefferson	471	14
Lewis	326	11
Livingston	642	18
Madison	861	25
Monroe	13,417	363
Montgomery	442	29
Nassau	57,985	496
Niagara	3,366	105
NYC	300,191	1,916
Oneida	4,410	118
Onondaga	9,785	315
Ontario	1,164	29
Orange	16,228	135
Orleans	585	4
Oswego	1,359	57
Otsego	573	21
Putnam	2,563	34
Rensselaer	1,587	33
Rockland	20,942	118
Saratoga	2,045	39
Schenectady	2,227	38
Schoharie	179	3
Schuyler	285	11
Seneca	267	7
St. Lawrence	723	18
Steuben	1,644	34
Suffolk	57,909	543
Sullivan	2,123	15
Tioga	1,066	11
Tompkins	971	18
Ulster	3,141	32
Warren	560	13
Washington	435	2
Wayne	1,012	29
Westchester	47,964	332
Wyoming	480	50
Yates	242	0

Yesterday, 41 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 26,482. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:

Deaths by County of Residence
County	New Deaths
Albany	2
Broome	1
Cattaraugus	1
Chautauqua	1
Chemung	2
Cortland	1
Erie	9
Greene	1
Kings	3
Manhattan	1
Monroe	1
Montgomery	3
Niagara	2
Onondaga	1
Queens	4
Suffolk	3
Ulster	1
Westchester	4