Thread by @NYCHealthCommr

👇🏾 Even more evidence that #VaccinesWork — with delta circulating, it's much riskier to remain unvaccinated. The vaccines are offering significant protection against infection AND hospitalization.

Explore all of the numbers, in detail, at: nyc.gov/coviddata 🧵

https://twitter.com/nycHealthy/status/1443685846448758785

All of our key indicators are decreasing, but we still have work to do. Many of these cases, hospitalizations and deaths could be avoided with vaccination.

Transmission is still high. With cooler weather coming, we have to keep a close eye on where the virus is spreading in NYC.

Luckily we have avoided the peak hospitalization rates we saw last year, but we're not yet back to the lower levels we had seen earlier in the summer.

More long-term trends here: on.nyc.gov/datatotals

This week we surpassed 70% of ALL New Yorkers with at least one dose of vaccine, and 63.3% of New Yorkers are now fully vaccinated.

Certain demographic groups have lower vaccination rates, requiring a continued focus on first doses for anyone unvaccinated.

The delta variant has made up more than 90% of sequenced cases since July. We must also maintain other precautions to curb #COVID19 spread — such as masking, ventilation, handwashing, staying home if ill and distancing and testing as appropriate.