Adams, a Democrat in his third week in office, pointed to the average number of cases recorded daily, which has fallen from a known peak of more than 40,000 to less than 20,000, and to hospitalizations, which have fallen from a daily peak of about 6,500 people hospitalized citywide on Jan.
The number of known cases is still much higher than last winter, when there was an average of roughly 6,500 cases a day, according to city data.
During the devastating first wave of the coronavirus in the spring of 2020, testing was scarce, leaving many cases unreported.A wave of Omicron cases may be cresting in the northeastern United States, but the number of virus patients nationwide is at a record high and climbing, overwhelming hospitals whose staffs have been hollowed out by the virus.surgeon general, warned that the Omicron surge had not yet peaked nationally, saying that the next few weeks would be very difficult in many parts of the country as hospitalizations and deaths rise.
She said the virus positivity rate statewide was now 12.8 percent, about half of what it was on Jan.
The Omicron surge.offered a hint of good news. But officials warned that Omicron cases have not yet peaked nationally and that there’s no guarantee the variant will lead to enough natural immunity to end the pandemic.
Adams said the city had reached a new milestone of 16 million doses administered, including 2.5 million booster doses.
But the mayor said New York was still “nowhere near where we need to be” on its vaccination effort.