Far-left New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced that indoor dining can resume in New York City starting on February 14th. However, almost every single Covid metric is WORSE now than it was when he banned it in December.
According to the New York Times, Covid cases are 64% higher now than they were on December when Cuomo announced the ban on indoor dining.
“Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York said on Friday that New York City could reopen indoor dining on Feb. 14. But by nearly every measure, the coronavirus outbreak in the city is worse than it was when he announced a ban on indoor dining in December,” the NY Times says in a tweet.
Look below at the chart:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York said on Friday that New York City could reopen indoor dining on Feb. 14. But by nearly every measure, the coronavirus outbreak in the city is worse than it was when he announced a ban on indoor dining in December.https://t.co/L4c3DyRLLW
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 2, 2021
“Average Covid-19 hospitalizations in the city, while trending downward, were still 60% higher late last week than they were when Mr. Cuomo closed the restaurants,” the NY Times adds.
The Daily Caller adds the following:
“Average hospitalizations per 100,000 people also rose from December to January. There was a 7-day average of 209 coronavirus hospitalizations per 100,000 people on Dec. 11, and on Jan. 28, the 7-day average was 335 hospitalizations, according to the New York Times. The 7-day average test positivity rate was 4.0% when the ban was announced, and 5.3% when it was announced that the ban would be lifted.
Out of the four metrics that Cuomo said are used to determine reopening plans – new case numbers, hospitalizations, the test positivity rate, and the infection rate – the last metric is the only one that has improved. The rate at which people are infecting each other is now between 1.03 and 0.95, meaning each person who gets coronavirus will infect approximately one other person, state officials said according to the New York Times.”
Maybe this is more about POLITICS than the actual VIRUS? Why would you open restaurants when cases are worse than they were a month ago?
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Cuomo wasn’t eager to open his economy until after Joe Biden was installed in the White House.
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