Governor Hochul Updates New Yorkers on State's Progress Combating COVID-19 - MAY 6, 2022

 

Central New York, Finger Lakes, Mohawk Valley, North Country and Southern Tier 7-Day Average Case Rates Down This Week Compared to Last Week

COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Declining in Central New York, Finger Lakes, Mohawk Valley

53% of Statewide Admissions are Admitted for Non-COVID Reason

Governor Hochul Encourages New Yorkers to Keep Using the Tools to Protect Against and Treat COVID-19: Vaccines, Boosters, Testing, and Treatment

12 Statewide Deaths Reported Yesterday

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

"By using the tools at our disposal, we can protect ourselves from COVID-19 and keep both ourselves and our loved ones healthy," Governor Hochul said. "Make sure to keep up to date on vaccine doses, get the second booster as soon as you are eligible, and make sure your children are fully vaccinated. Remember to get tested before traveling or seeing vulnerable loved ones, and ask your doctor about treatments if you test positive." 

Today's data is summarized briefly below:   

• Cases Per 100k – 71.14
• 7-Day Average Cases Per 100k – 43.73
• Test Results Reported – 226,277
• Total Positive – 13,902
• Percent Positive – 5.66%**  
• 7-Day Average Percent Positive – 6.85%**
• Patient Hospitalization – 2,187 (+44)
• Patients Newly Admitted – 383
• Patients in ICU – 198 (-7)
• Patients in ICU with Intubation – 81 (+12)
• Total Discharges – 298,283 (+348)
• New deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS - 12
• Total deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS – 55,571     

** 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.      

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.   

• Total deaths reported to and compiled by the CDC – 70,946      

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 – 38,468,473
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 24 hours – 28,299
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 7 days – 154,724
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose – 92.5%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series – 83.8%
• 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) – 87.0% 
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 12-17 with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) – 83.1%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 12-17 with completed vaccine series (CDC) – 73.2%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose – 82.0%  
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series – 74.2% 
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) – 90.2% 
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series (CDC) – 77.0% 

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

Borough	Tuesday, May 3, 2022	Wednesday, May 4, 2022	Thursday, May 5, 2022
Bronx	2.92%	3.09%	3.22%
Kings	3.72%	3.75%	3.83%
New York	5.32%	5.75%	6.28%
Queens	5.41%	5.76%	4.73%
Richmond	4.55%	4.32%	4.48%

 

Dear Neighbors,

 

Due to inclement weather, tomorrow's Bronx Week Events have been postponed.

Father & Child Softball Classic - POSTPONED
Health Day Fair - POSTPONED

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our office at 718-590-3500 or email us at webmail@bronxbp.nyc.gov.

 

In partnership,

Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson

Events Postponed

Bronx Fashion Week Returns to the Mall at Bay Plaza - Saturday May 7, 2022 2 PM

 

Bronx Fashion Week initiates innovative events that attract a multitude of fashion influencers. Our events have become preferred for diverse and inclusive audiences. Our objective is to provide real-time business opportunities to local emerging and established designers to showcase their skills and abilities in an industry that is often non-accessible.

Bronx Fashion Week is already shaping up to be one of the most amazing fashion experiences at The New Mall at Bay Plaza surrounded by over 100 retailers from The Bronx. The mall has over 25 million visitors per year and is considered the most Spectacular Fashion Destination.

Designers include outfits from; Callejas Atelier, Yo Soy Mia, Mia Roman, Boulevard Menswear, Daysi Collection, Macy's, Forever 21, and Ashley Stewart. 

Tom Suozzi - Kathy Hochul can't win

 

Dear friend,

New York Magazine just published an article that shows that if Kathy Hochul is the Democratic nominee, the Republicans can win the governor's race in the general election.

Check out the article here.

In a scathing rebuke of Governor Hochul's leadership, the article outlines how "she's failing" at the job.

Suozzi said: "She’s missing it on crime, ignoring the affordability crisis, she blew it on Brian Benjamin, and we still have the highest taxes in America."

Her lack of judgment and inexperience can cost us everything if Democrats don't wake up.

Please read the rest of this illuminating article and share it on your social media and with your friends and family.

Onward,

Tom

EDITOR'S NOTE:

When we checked out the link it came from the New York, Intelligencer. 

Defendant Pleads Guilty to Attempted Armed Robbery of a Federal Officer in Brooklyn

 

John Shortt Sparked a Shoot-Out that Left One Person Dead and Four Injured Including Himself

 In federal court in Brooklyn, John Shortt pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Eric Komitee to assault of a federal police officer and possessing and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence in connection with the attempted robbery of a federal officer outside a nightclub in Brooklyn.  When sentenced, Shortt faces up to 27 years in prison. 

Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), announced the guilty plea. 

“With this guilty plea, John Shortt is held responsible for causing a wild shoot-out on a public street that resulted in one death, seriously wounded three victims including a federal officer who was targeted by the defendant for a robbery, and endangered numerous other persons,” stated United States Attorney Peace.  “This Office and our law enforcement partners are working tirelessly to reduce gun-related violence in the district and we will vigorously prosecute criminals like the defendant who use illegal firearms with complete disregard for the consequences of their actions.”  Mr. Peace thanked the New York City Police Department for its assistance with the case.

According to court documents, on September 18, 2021, Shortt and an accomplice, Isiah Greenaway, attempted to rob a United States Park Police Officer and another individual at gunpoint outside a nightclub located at 1440 Utica Avenue in Brooklyn.   The officer drew his weapon and announced himself as a police officer to protect himself and prevent a felony in-progress.  The attempted robbery led to a shoot-out in which the officer and two other individuals were seriously wounded, and another man was killed.  Shortt was also shot by the officer.  Greenaway is charged with assault of a federal police officer and possessing and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.  Greenaway’s case is pending and he is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

RIKERS ISLAND INMATE SENTENCED TO NINE YEARS IN PRISON FOR ASSAULTING JAIL PHYSICIAN; TAKING PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT HOSTAGE

 

Defendant Pleaded Guilty to Kidnapping

 Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Rikers Island inmate has been sentenced to nine years in prison for assaulting a Rikers Island Medical Clinic physician, taking a physician assistant hostage, and threatening to take another physician hostage, in three separate events.

 District Attorney Clark said, “Medical staff on Rikers Island offer essential services to defendants awaiting trial. We must do all we can to make sure they are working in a safe environment, while caring for the incarcerated. The defendant attacked, kept hostage, and threatened workers whose job was to take care of him, and he will spend nearly a decade behind bars for his brutal actions.”

 District Attorney Clark said the defendant Peter Rodriguez, 31, was sentenced on May 4, 2022 by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio to nine years in prison and two-and-a-half years of post-release supervision. The defendant pleaded guilty to second-degree Kidnapping on April 11, 2022.

 According to the investigation, on December 13, 2018, in the Main Medical Clinic in the George R. Vierno Center in Rikers Island, the defendant attacked a doctor, who was treating him. The doctor suffered multiple muscle tears after Rodriguez pulled on his arm. The defendant then threw a chair at the doctor while the physician attempted to escape the assault.

 On January 16, 2018, in the Main Medical Clinic in the George R. Vierno Center, the defendant was receiving treatment from a second doctor. Rodriguez put that doctor in a headlock and threatened to take him hostage.

 On September 24, 2019, at the Building 11 Mini-Clinic at the George R. Vierno Center, the defendant was being treated by a physician assistant. While receiving treatment, the defendant barricaded the clinic door, threatened to blow up the room with oxygen tanks, and threated to chew off the physician assistant’s face. The stand-off lasted approximately two hours.

 District Attorney Clark also thanked the Department of Correction Intelligence Bureau, specifically Correction Officer Investigator Cecil Phillips, for their assistance.