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Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
On March 24, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, advised people who had left New York City to self-quarantine for 14 days. [50] On March 29, CBS News reporter Maria Mercader, a New York City resident, died from a COVID-19 related illness. [51] [52] Social distancing markers on the floor of the Newburgh Walmart
As of January 6, 2023, over one third of New York City neighborhoods had COVID-19 positivity rates in excess of 20% and four out of five neighborhoods exceeded 15%, largely due to the highly infectious XBB.1.5 variant. This particular variant accounted for 80.8% of the city's cases, compared to the projected U.S. prevalence of 61%. [173]
More than 11.2 million New Yorkers are partially vaccinated as of Monday, including 10.8 million adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On March 28, the president said he had decided not to enact a tri-state lockdown of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, after having publicly suggested earlier in the day he was considering such a move; instead he ordered the CDC to issue a travel advisory suggesting voluntary travel limitations in these states. [77]
A declared mayoral candidate, city Comptroller Brad Lander, is asking US health officials to determine whether ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's controversial March 25, 2020 order requiring nursing homes to ...
By late November 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 had broken out in Wuhan, China. [2]As reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases on November 30, 2020, 7,389 blood samples collected between December 13, 2019, and January 17, 2020, by the American Red Cross from normal donors in nine states (California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin ...
Around the globe, a new strain of COVID-19 is spreading exponentially. The COVID-19 XEC variant is derived from Omicron strains KS.1.1 and KP.3.3, says Dr. Francesca Torriani , MD, an infectious ...