Despite decreasing positivity rates, hospitals continue to struggle amid a surging patient load and staff shortages
Summary
- New York City and some north-eastern US states appear to be seeing rapid decreases in their numbers of Covid-19 cases in recent days, raising the possibility that the Omicron wave has now already peaked in some parts of America.
- “Overall, the prognosis, the forecast, for Covid is much brighter than it had been before.”Some 400,000 tests were conducted in New York on Saturday, with a positivity rate of 12.9%.
- Just one week ago, on a similar number of tests, the positivity rate was almost 20%.
- The state reported 51,264 new cases on Saturday, down from the peak of more than 90,000 a week earlier, according to a New York Times database.
- Over the weekend US surgeon general Vivek Murthy, warned that despite its rapid spread, Omicron had not yet peaked in the US as a whole.