In February 2021, the New York COVID-19 nursing home scandal surfaced, which drew huge criticism on Governor Cuomo's decision on withholding reports of nusing home deaths.
As of November 26, 2021, it has the fourth-highest count of deaths related to the virus, surpassed by California, Florida, and Texas and seventh-highest count per capita, behind New Jersey and several Southern and Western states, such as Mississippi, Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Īs of February 17, 2021, the state of New York had the fourth highest number of confirmed cases in the United States, and the 34th highest number of confirmed cases per capita. In late September, New York began to see an uptick in cases, with over 1,000 new cases reported in a single day for the first time since early June on September 26. On June 17, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that New York had the lowest infection rate in the United States. Unlike many other states, New York did not see a spike or "second wave" in the daily new case rate during the summer months. Approximately half of the state's reported cases have been in New York City, where around 40 percent of the state's population lives.ĭespite the high number of reported cases in March and April, by May 7, New York had reduced the rate of increase of new cases to less than 1 percent per day, and since June 6 to less than 0.25 percent per day. outbreak until July 22, 2020, when it was first surpassed by California and later by Florida and Texas. New York had the highest number of confirmed cases of any state from the start of U.S. As of September 8, 2022, the state has reported 118.4 million tests, with 5,944,986 cumulative cases, and 73,758 deaths. By April 10, New York had more confirmed cases than any country outside the US. state of New York during the pandemic was confirmed on March 1, 2020, and the state quickly became an epicenter of the pandemic, with a record 12,274 new cases reported on April 4 and approximately 29,000 more deaths reported for the month of April than the same month in 2019.
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