NYC COVID Cases Jump 32% as Neighborhood Concerns Mount (Especially on Staten Island)

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Some New York City neighborhoods are experiencing a marked increase in new COVID-19 cases and health officials say low vaccination rates and more transmissible variants like delta are to blame.

Out of 10 areas citywide with the lowest vaccination rates, six of them also have the highest positivity rates, according to the city's health department.

The city’s COVID dashboard points to a troubling uptick in overall positives cases that now has the rolling positivity rate at 1.22 percent after weeks of all-time lows. ...........(more)

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/nyc-sees-32-increase-in-new-covid-cases-as-neighborhood-concerns-mount/3149382/

[choie]

1. Staten Island

I was on a zoom call w/a colleague who is pregnant and lives with her husband on Staten Island - her whole family lives there as well. They're traveling to Florida this weekend. She told me that her parents and her sister (who is the mother of a 1 year-old) are not vaccinated. Again, they're going to Florida with her. I didn't ask if she (my colleague) is vaccinated. I was just flabbergasted and it took all my strength not to tell her how stupid she and her family are. To add - we are both social workers who work in the field of aging and know how important it is for our clients to be vaccinated. What the hell?

[MineralMan]

2. From what to what?

Percentages of change don't tell much of the story, unless you know the actual numbers.

A rolling positivity rate of 1.22%, compared to that same positivity rate at the peak of the pandemic, doesn't look all that horrifying.

Using percentages, rather than actual numbers is a common way for the press to make something look far better or far worse than it really is.

For example, if some drug decreases the likelihood of death from something by 25%, that sounds important. But, if the likelihood of death was only 1% previously, it doesn't mean all that much, really. It just means that the risk goes down to 0.75%. The impact of that is very small, in actual numbers.

Numbers. We need actual numbers, not percentages of change.