Governor Hochul Updates New Yorkers on State's Progress Combating COVID-19 - OCTOBER 18, 2021

 

16,320 Vaccine Doses Administered Over Last 24 Hours

28 COVID-19 Deaths Statewide Yesterday

 Governor Kathy Hochul today updated New Yorkers on the state's progress combating COVID-19.

"Many New Yorkers have been vaccinated for COVID-19 and are returning to normal life, but we can't get complacent," Governor Hochul said. "We have to get more New Yorkers vaccinated, end the pandemic and revitalize our economy. Lives still hang in the balance, and I'm urging everyone who hasn't gotten a shot yet to consider their friends, families and loved ones and use the vaccine to help end this pandemic for all of us."

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

• Test Results Reported - 115,785
• Total Positive - 3,003
• Percent Positive - 2.59%
• 7-Day Average Percent Positive - 2.46%
• Patient Hospitalization - 2,144 (+58)
• Patients Newly Admitted - 478
• Patients in ICU - 464 (+14)
• Patients in ICU with Intubation - 256 (+9)
• Total Discharges - 205,329 (+178)
• New deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS - 28
• Total deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS - 45,137

The Health Electronic Response Data System is a NYS DOH data source that collects confirmed daily death data as reported by hospitals, nursing homes and adult care facilities only.

• Total deaths reported to and compiled by the CDC - 57,288

This daily COVID-19 provisional death certificate data reported by NYS DOH and NYC to the CDC includes those who died in any location, including hospitals, nursing homes, adult care facilities, at home, in hospice and other settings.

• Total vaccine doses administered - 26,291,069
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 24 hours - 16,320
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 7 days - 362,658
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose - 83.1%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series - 75.4%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) - 86.1%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series (CDC) - 77.4%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose - 70.4%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series - 63.7%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) - 73.0%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series (CDC) - 65.5%