Governor Hochul Updates New Yorkers on State's Progress Combating Covid-19 - APRIL 5, 2022

 

Statewide Hospitalization Levels Remain Low -- 885 Yesterday, 55.5% Admitted for Non-COVID Reason

10 COVID-19 Deaths Statewide Yesterday 

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

Important Note: Effective Monday, April 4, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is no longer requiring testing facilities that use COVID-19 rapid antigen tests to report negative results. As a result, New York State's percent positive metric will be computed using only lab-reported PCR results. Positive antigen tests will still be reported to New York State and reporting of new daily cases and cases per 100k will continue to include both PCR and antigen tests. Due to this change and other factors, including changes in testing practices, the most reliable metric to measure virus impact on a community is the case per 100,000 data -- not percent positivity.

"The vaccine and booster are our best tools to protect ourselves from COVID-19 and keep the numbers down," Governor Hochul said. "If you feel sick, get tested and limit your exposure to others. If you test positive, talk to a doctor right away about treatments. The booster dose improves your protection against severe illness and hospitalization, so don't delay in getting one once you are eligible."

Today's data is summarized briefly below: 

·           Cases Per 100k - 13.36

·           7-Day Average Cases Per 100k - 17.73 (17.92*)

·           Test Results Reported - 57,034

·           Total Positive - 2,611

·           Percent Positive - 4.77%**

·           7-Day Average Percent Positive - 3.05%** (3.09*,**)

·           Patient Hospitalization - 885 (+49)  

·           Patients Newly Admitted - 139

·           Patients in ICU - 114 (-6)

·           Patients in ICU with Intubation - 46 (-2)  

·           Total Discharges - 291,351 (+78) 

·           New deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS - 10

·           Total deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS - 55,176

* These figures include at-home tests which Onondaga County, unlike other counties, has provided in their daily reporting to the New York State Department of Health. Future reporting from Onondaga County will not include home test data to ensure alignment and consistency with other counties.   

** Due to the test reporting policy change by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and several other factors, the most reliable metric to measure virus impact on a community is the case per 100,000 data -- not percent positivity.

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 - 70,340

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 - 37,587,917
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 24 hours - 28,210
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 7 days - 168,335
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose - 92.1%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series - 83.5%
• 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) - 86.2%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 12-17 with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) - 82.6%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 12-17 with completed vaccine series (CDC) - 72.7%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose - 81.6%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series - 73.8%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) - 89.7%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series (CDC) - 76.3%

** Due to the test reporting policy change by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and several other factors, the most reliable metric to measure virus impact on a community is the case per 100,000 data -- not percent positivity.

Each New York City borough's 7-day average percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:    

Borough	Saturday, April 2, 2022	Sunday, April 3, 2022	Monday, April 4, 2022
Bronx	1.16%	1.18%	1.20%
Kings	1.99%	1.98%	2.10%
New York	3.09%	3.17%	3.23%
Queens	1.99%	2.04%	2.02%
Richmond	2.32%	2.37%	2.33%

Join the Healthy NY Summit on 4/20

 

Healthy New York Summit DATE April 20, 2022 TIME OF EVENT 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM LOCATION The Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York, NY Register Now  Register now to hear from top health care decision makers at City & State's annual Healthy NY Summit on 4/20! Don't miss your chance to hear from NYC Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan, State Senate Health Committee Chair Gustavo Rivera, State Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried, and more!   Purchase Tickets For information on speaking or sponsorship opportunities, please contact Lissa Blake at lblake@cityandstateny.com. Panels • Making Health Care Available and Affordable to All New Yorkers • Innovative Health Programs and Services in New York • Tackling Mental Health in New York • Community Engagement with Aging and Vulnerable Populations Speakers Ashwin Vasan Incoming Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Gustavo Rivera Chair, State Senate Health Committee Ann Marie Sullivan Commissioner, New York State Office of Mental Health Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez Commissioner, New York City Department for the Aging Richard Gottfried Chair, Assembly Health Committee Linda Lee Chair, New York City Council Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addictions Hannah Jackson Assistant Vice President Telehealth & Chief of Staff, NYC Health + Hospitals Sharon Greenberger President & CEO, YMCA of Greater New York Alan Mitchell Executive Director, HealthEfficient Dr. Ruth Gerson SVP of Mental Health Services, The New York Foundling See the Full Speaker List

 

Dual U.S. And Dutch Citizen Charged With $14 Billion Tender Offer Fraud Scheme

 

Melville ten Cate Orchestrated Tender Offer Fraud and Other Related Fraud Schemes

 Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Ricky J. Patel, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging MELVILLE TEN CATE with tender offer fraud, securities fraud, and wire fraud in connection with several schemes on behalf of his company, Xcalibur Aerospace Ltd. (“Xcalibur”), including a fraudulent tender offer worth more than $14 billion.  TEN CATE remains at large.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Fraudsters talk big and hope no one looks too closely at the bottom line. We allege Mr. ten Cate attempted to make his company look profitable and bluffed his way through the proposed purchase of a multi-billion dollar company. But it was all based on a lie. Instead of collecting on a hefty payday, he’s now facing serious federal charges.”

HSI Acting Special Agent-in-Charge Ricky J. Patel said: “The filing of this indictment alleges that ten Cate sold lies to raise cash - swindling investors and companies along the way through multiple fraud schemes. Time and time again this fraudster believed he could outsmart unwitting pools of investors, luring them with phony stock tenders and a variety of false promises.  Justice caught up with him and he is now facing charges for his criminal acts.  HSI will never stop in its mission to pursue these unscrupulous actors anywhere in the world to keep the public safe and to preserve and protect the American financial system.”

According to the allegations contained in the Indictment filed today in Manhattan federal court:

From in or about August 2019 until in or about November 2020, MELVILLE TEN CATE, the defendant, executed fraudulent schemes designed to induce others to invest in, or otherwise transfer money to, Xcalibur and TEN CATE.  First, TEN CATE attempted to secure $500 million in debt financing from U.S. banks and third-party debt issuers. In doing so, TEN CATE materially misrepresented Xcalibur’s business activities and finances to the banks and other potential investors, including by falsely claiming that Xcalibur’s financial records had been audited by an international accounting firm, that Xcalibur had outside investors, and that Xcalibur had cash reserves of almost £9.8 billion.

In a second scheme, in and about November 2020, TEN CATE placed an advertisement in a national newspaper (the “Newspaper”) in which he falsely claimed that Xcalibur had secured billions of dollars in financing and was making a tender offer to acquire a multibillion-dollar U.S. corporation (the “Target Company”).  In furtherance of his scheme to issue the false tender offer for the Target Company, TEN CATE sent fabricated payment confirmations to the Newspaper and to a New York, New York-based printer (the “Printer”) that TEN CATE had hired to file the false tender offer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).  The Newspaper published the false tender offer, but neither the Newspaper nor the Printer ever received payment and TEN CATE never completed the tender offer.    

TEN CATE, 53, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is charged with one count of tender offer fraud, one count of securities fraud, and two counts of wire fraud.  TEN CATE faces a maximum sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment on each count.   

The maximum potential sentence in this case is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of a defendant will be determined by the judge.

Mr. Williams praised the investigative work of HSI.  Mr. Williams also thanked the Securities & Exchange Commission, which brought a related civil action against TEN CATE that was filed today.

The charges contained in the Indictment are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

An Urgent Announcement from the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center

 

Dear Friend, 

We are reaching out again for assistance in spreading the word of our outreach campaign for 2022. Our aim is to locate and contact all Jewish survivors of the Holocaust to provide financial compensation. In 2021, all survivors should have received either an ongoing or one-time payment through the Claims Conference or the German government. We aspire to find those survivors who have not yet reached out to us for payment. 

We are contacting you directly because we need your help finding Holocaust survivors who have not yet received payment. As the original Hardship payments were paid years, and in some cases, decades ago, we have lost contact with a significant number of original recipients due to old addresses and have outdated information. According to our records, there are survivors in your area that have either not been located by Claims Conference or have not reached out to us directly for payment. If you know of any survivors who have not received compensation recently, have not submitted a form to us, or may not be aware of payment through Claims Conference, please email us at HFSoutreach@claimscon.org. If further assistance or a translator is needed, call us at (646) 536-9157. 

Please be assured that we will not be sharing contact information of survivors. We are in search of contact information for the sole purpose of aiding Holocaust survivors in receiving their payment. Their contact information will be used to send them the necessary forms. Any information provided will be used strictly by the Claims Conference alone and will not be shared with or used by any third parties.

Your community leadership is why we wish to coordinate with you on this effort. We hope that with this email, we can work together to locate more survivors in your community and provide them with the financial compensation they are rightfully owed. We appreciate any information you can offer and encourage spreading the word of our campaign. Additionally, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to email us. 

We have provided a flyer with some information about the campaign and contact information with this email. We will appreciate it if you could print and display it where you see fit. 

We would appreciate if you would let us know if you plan to spread the word of our campaign.  

Warmest regards,  

Abigail Waldron

HFS Outreach Coordinator

HFSoutreach@claimscon.org

(New York, NY) (646) 536-9157  

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CLAIMS CONFERENCE NEEDS YOUR HELP!
Are you a Holocaust Survivor, or do you know any survivor of the Shoah who has not contacted Claims Conference yet? If so, you/they might be entitled to financial compensation. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany is reaching out to your community in an effort to locate and contact all Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Over the past year, the Claims Conference has been working towards ensuring that all survivors of the Holocaust have received a one-time payment or are receiving an ongoing pension either through the Claims Conference or the German government. We are determined to find those Survivors who have not yet received compensation or reached out to us for payment. If you know of any Holocaust survivors who have never received compensation, have never applied for compensation, or may not be aware that they may be entitled to compensation through the Claims Conference, please contact us today! Please email us at HFSoutreach@claimscon.org or call us at (646) 536-9157

Permits Filed For 2077 Ryer Avenue In Tremont, The Bronx

 

Permits have been filed for a seven-story residential building at 2077 Ryer Avenue in Tremont, The Bronx. Located at the corner of East 180th Street and Ryer Avenue, the lot is three blocks south of the 182-183 Streets subway station, serviced by the B and D trains. Yitzchak Joseph of Real Land Group is listed as the owner behind the applications.

The proposed 60-foot-tall development will yield 39,274 square feet designated for residential space. The building will have 71 residences, most likely rentals based on the average unit scope of 553 square feet. The concrete-based structure will also have a basement but no accessory parking.

Lester Katz is listed as the architect of record.

Demolition permits were filed in March for the three-story building on the site. An estimated completion date has not been announced.