Thread by @BKBoroHall

Update from today’s @NYCMayor/@NYGovCuomo briefings:

#Day314 Stats/Trends:
🔹Hospitalizations: 8,561 (+13)
🔸Discharges: 901 (-23)
🔸Admits: 1,068 (+18)
🔹Deaths: 161
🔹ICU: 1,475 (+51)
🔹Intubations: 912 (+53)
🔹Tests: 243,903 (18,832 Pos: 7.72%)

🔹#RedZones: 8.32%
🔹Excl. #RedZones: 7.49%

NYC (Compared with 1/06):
🔹Hospitalizations: 356
🔹Hospitalization Rate: 4.33%
🔹New Reported Cases (Over 7-Day Rolling Average): 3,960 (Including “Probable” Cases)
🔹Citywide Positive Tests: 9.38%
🔹Data: nyc.gov/coronavirus

NYC VACCINE UPDATE:
Reserve Your Vaccination Time
🔹Mass Vaccination Sites - OPEN SUNDAY 24/7
🔸Brooklyn: Grand Army Terminal Annex Building 80 58th Street
🔸Bronx: Bathgate Industrial Park 1648-1674 Bathgate Ave.
🔹Coming SOON:
🔸Queens Theater (QNS)
🔸La Marqueta (Manhattan)

🔹Vaccine Hubs Opening THIS SUNDAY:
🔸Brooklyn: Bushwick Educational Campus 400 Irving Avenue
🔸Queens: Hillcrest High School 160-05 Highland Avenue
🔸Bronx: South Bronx Educational Campus 701 St. Ann’s Avenue
🔸Open 7 days a week 9AM-7PM
🔹VISIT: NYC.Gov/VaccineLocatio…

Phase 1b:
🔹On Monday, vaccine sites will be ready to open in all 5 boroughs for city workers who qualify for Vaccination Phase 1b.
🔹Phase 1b eligibility categories will include:
🔸Frontline essential workers
🔸Daycare workers
🔸Firefighters
🔸Police & Corrections officers

🔹City Workforce Vaccination Sites:
🔸SOMOS @SOMOSCare & @FDNY will staff vaccine sites
🔹SOMOS:
🔸Bronx: X410 Taft High School
🔸Brooklyn: George Wingate High School
🔸Manhattan: Brandeis High School
🔹FDNY:
🔸Queens: John Adams HS
🔸Staten Island: Susan Wagner HS

NYS Rates:
🔹#Region: Positivity Rate 🔸Hospitalizations (Hospitalization Rate):
🔹#NYC: 6.42% 🔸3,066 (0.04%)
🔹#LI: 9.68% 🔸1,552 (0.05%)
🔹#MidHudsonValley: 8.12% 🔸980 (0.04%)
🔹#NorthCountry: 8.45% 🔸106 (0.03%)

🔹#FingerLakes: 10.22% 🔸905 (0.08%)
🔹#MohawkValley: 10.80% 🔸321 (0.07%)
🔹#WesternNY: 8.61% 🔸530 (0.04%)
🔹#CentralNY: 8.57% 🔸374 (0.05%)
🔹#CapitalRegion: 10.16% 🔸515 (0.05%)
🔹#SouthernTier: 5.30% 🔸212 (0.03%)

NYC Positivity by Borough:
🔹#BK: 6.70%
🔹#QN: 7.49%
🔹#BX: 8.21%
🔹#MN: 4.45%
🔹#SI: 7.84%

NYS VACCINE UPDATE:
🔹Hospital Capacity:
🔹21 days from 15% = CLOSURE
🔹NYC: 31.59%
🔹LI: 26.94%
🔹MidHudson: 37.62%
🔹NorthCountry: 48.22%
🔹FingerLakes: 29.59%
🔹MohawkValley: 23.10%
🔹WesternNY: 30.53%
🔹CentralNY: 24.41%
🔹CapitalRegion: 22.04%
🔹SouthernTier: 40.83%

🔹1a Vaccination Category Already eligible:
🔸Patient-facing hospital healthcare workers
🔸All nursing home & assisted living facility residents/staff
🔸Federally-Qualified Health Center employees
🔸EMT volunteers/staff
🔸Coroners, Medical Examiners, certain funeral workers

🔸OPWDD & OMH facility staff/residents
🔸OASAS facility staff/residents
🔸Urgent Care Ctr employees
🔸Individuals administering #COVID19 vaccines incl local health dept. staff
🔸Ambulatory Centers staff
🔸Home care & hospice workers
🔸Other congregate setting staff/residents

NYS Pop. Vaccinated to Date by Region:
🔹NYC: 122,477 (13%)
🔹LI: 57,384 (25%)
🔹NorthCountry: 13,960 (37%)
🔹FingerLakes: 33,070 (26%)
🔹MohawkValley: 13,547 (23%)
🔹WesternNY: 33,528 (23%)
🔹CentralNY: 18,479 (24%)
🔹CapitalRegion: 31,101 (29%)
🔹SouthernTier: 13,435 (23%)

NYS Pop. Still to be Vaccinated:
🔹NYC: 794,523 (87%)
🔹LI: 172,616 (75%)
🔹NorthCountry: 24,040 (63%)
🔹FingerLakes: 95,930 (74%)
🔹MohawkValley: 45,453 (77%)
🔹WesternNY: 109,472 (77%)
🔹CentralNY: 57,521 (76%)
🔹CapitalRegion: 76,899 (71%)
🔹SouthernTier: 44,565 (77%)

Vaccine Distribution:
🔹State will add new distribution networks to supplement hospitals including:
🔸Doctor networks
🔸FQHCs
🔸County Health Departments
🔸Ambulatory Centers
🔸1,200 pharmacies committed
🔸500 pharmacies to come on-line next week

🔹Hundreds of additional providers across the state will begin accepting vaccine reservations on MONDAY
🔹State Vaccine Reservation website will go online MONDAY
🔹@HealthNYGov will hold a webinar on Monday for all providers & county health departments

🔹1b Vaccine Category:
🔸3.2 million NYers eligible to be vaccinated
🔸870,000 Education Workers
🔸207,000 First Responders (Police, Firefighters)
🔸100,000 Public Safety Workers
🔸100,000 Public Transit Workers
🔸1.4 million people 75-and-older

🔹Total 1b Population by Region:
🔸NYC: 1,512,000
🔸LI: 427,000
🔸MidHudsonValley: 355,000
🔸NorthCountry: 70,000
🔸FingerLakes: 185,000
🔸MohawkValley: 82,000
🔸WesternNY: 206,000
🔸CentralNY: 110,000
🔸CapitalRegion: 167,000
🔸SouthernTier: 101,000

🔹State will allocate vaccines to distribution networks proportionately by group & by region
🔹State will mandate fair distribution among groups (police, firefighters, teachers, 75+, etc.) - all will be treated fairly and proportionately by group & by region

🔹State will mandate social equity distribution by local health depts:
🔸Public Housing
🔸Houses of Worship
🔸Low income census tracts

🔹Additionally, @HealthNYGov is setting up 20 mass distribution sites in the next several weeks
🔸Javits Center OPENS Next Wednesday

🔹Gov. Cuomo signed an Executive Order expanding the eligible pool of trainees who can administer vaccinations at distribution sites:
🔸Licensed practical nurses
🔸Pharmacists
🔸Pharmacy technicians
🔸Midwives
🔸Dentists
🔸Certain dental hygienists
🔸Podiatrists
🔸EMTs