Governor Hochul Updates New Yorkers on State's Progress Combating COVID-19 - JANUARY 31, 2022

Number of New Cases Dropped by Nearly 50% Since Last Week

Cases Continue to Decline in All Regions

New Hospital Admissions Down Nearly 1/3 Since Last Week

87 COVID-19 Deaths Statewide Yesterday

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

"We are closing the month in a better place than we started, and I want to thank New Yorkers for doing their part to help stop the spread during this challenging wave," Governor Kathy Hochul said. "We're still not through this winter surge, and I encourage New Yorkers to continue using the tools to help keep our communities safe and our schools and businesses open. Please get the booster dose if you haven't already, get your children vaccinated and boosted when they're eligible, and continue to mask up. Let's not let our guard down and risk reversing all of the progress we've made."

Today's data is summarized briefly below: 

• Test Results Reported - 91,557
• Total Positive - 5,115
• Percent Positive - 5.59% 
• 7-Day Average Percent Positive - 6.64%
• Patient Hospitalization - 7,191 (+74) 
• Patients Newly Admitted - 506
• Patients in ICU - 1,161 (-16)
• Patients in ICU with Intubation - 701 (-8) 
• Total Discharges - 272,395 (+330)
• New deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS - 87
• Total deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS - 52,961

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 - 66,074

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 - 35,894,375
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 24 hours - 21,996
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 7 days - 387,188
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose - 90.9%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series - 82.0%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) - 95.0% 
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series (CDC) - 84.6%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose - 80.1% 
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series - 71.8% 
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) - 87.6% 
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series (CDC) - 74.1%