Today @BristolCouncil reports 2,252 positive cases from 13,659 tests over the past 7 days. That's a test positivity rate of 16.5%. New York city just closed all their public schools because their positivity rate exceeded 3% (I understand that the WHO recommends a 5% threshold).
Mayor Cuomo takes a strong line: "the decision isn’t just about a school, it’s about a school in an intensely infected community, with a family that’s infected and a candy store that has a high infection rate, on a bus route that has a high infection rate".
It's a striking difference from the "open at all costs" mantra in the UK. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Perhaps the difference has something to do with the fact that New York City has had over 24,000 coronavirus deaths, and the pandemic is the deadliest disaster by death toll in the history of the city. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_d…
Apologies, Cuomo is the Governor of New York state, not the Mayor of NYC (that's Bill de Blasio).
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