New York City has raised its Covid-19 alert level to “yellow,” the medium level, as positive Covid cases continue rising across the five boroughs.
The city’s Health Department said New Yorkers, and especially at-risk and unvaccinated ones, must use greater caution, including using masks in public indoor settings.
“Cases have now surpassed a rate of 200 per 100,000 people. As a practical matter, what this means for New Yorkers is that they must exercise even greater caution than they have the last few weeks,” NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan tweeted.
While city officials said that no new restrictions are planned under the current threat level, if the city reaches a “high” level of Covid transmission, officials could reimplement some restrictions, like indoor mask requirements.
“Vaccination and boosters are as critical as ever,” Health Commissioner Vasan said. “If you’re eligible for your booster, please, get the dose now. The coming weeks will be critical to slowing the spread of COVID-19 and getting back to a Low risk level so we can more safely enjoy our spring.”
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This entire uptick is solely fault of sleepy joe for not producing vaccinations with warp speed for “under 5’s”, unlike the legendary President Donald Trump who produced vaccinations with warp speed.
In case it reaches the dangerous levels they should not even think twice about implementing as many restrictions as needed.
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In case you haven’t figured it out yet, vaccines don’t do squat!
Everyone I know got the vaccine and the booster, and some got second booster, and EVERYONE got COVID anyway!
all i know is i haven’t listened to the first wave of restrictions and i sure won’t listen to any new wave of restrictions. go ahead and make new restrictions i could care less
masks don’t work i haven’t worn one in 18 months, neither does any other restrictions work and covid has in fact turned out to be a relatively mild disease especially now that immunity is built up. this isn’t the first week of no immunity and unknown disease its the 150th week with built up immunity + vaccinated public + known therapeutics = no wave of deaths like we had in march 2020
we don’t make restrictions every fall and winter for common cold and flu do we? this is not endemic and the hysterical behavior of some people is crazy.
Stevenn is one of those folks that don’t count sheep at night to bring about sleep; he counts masks.
“Ooh, Ooh… Please slap those regulations on me! Please, when can I stuff those masks over my face! I miss them so…”