{"id":430908,"date":"2022-04-13T03:53:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T00:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/we-mustnt-let-a-rise-in-mild-covid-cases-blunt-nycs-progress\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T03:53:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T00:53:53","slug":"we-mustnt-let-a-rise-in-mild-covid-cases-blunt-nycs-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/we-mustnt-let-a-rise-in-mild-covid-cases-blunt-nycs-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"#We mustn&#8217;t let a rise in mild COVID cases blunt NYC&#8217;s progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2409a5794f4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2409a5794f4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/we-mustnt-let-a-rise-in-mild-covid-cases-blunt-nycs-progress\/#%E2%80%9CWe_mustnt_let_a_rise_in_mild_COVID_cases_blunt_NYCs_progress%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;We mustn&#8217;t let a rise in mild COVID cases blunt NYC&#8217;s progress&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWe_mustnt_let_a_rise_in_mild_COVID_cases_blunt_NYCs_progress%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;We mustn&#8217;t let a rise in mild COVID cases blunt NYC&#8217;s progress&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Steve Cuozzo\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p id=\"block-aab97806-1f0e-4dfa-a727-9f7475664e16\">If New York City ever had a moment <em>not <\/em>to panic, this is it.<\/p>\n<p>Our streets are teeming with people headed to work, shoppers, restaurant- and show-goers, bikers, joggers and preening poodles in numbers we haven\u2019t seen in more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>But with citywide virus cases inching upward at a treacle pace, it didn\u2019t take long for the \u201cCan\u2019t let our guard down\u201d machine to start clanking into gear.\u00a0Mayor Eric Adams extended the mask mandate for 2-to-4-year-olds; colleges have reinstituted mask rules; health officials warn that the city\u2019s \u201cyellow\u201d (low) risk level will soon turn orange.<\/p>\n<p>Now Adams himself has caught the bug. Let\u2019s hope and pray it doesn\u2019t dilute his longstanding view that the city has to get on with it and \u201cwe have to learn to live with COVID.\u201d (He looked and sounded fine in Tuesday\u2019s recorded message about the Brooklyn subway shooter, and he did a slew of remote TV and radio interviews afterward.)<\/p>\n<p>What a disaster it would be for Adams to backtrack (as he\u2019s done on other occasions).\u00a0The city truly is back \u2014 mostly. Even office occupancy, which lags behind the return to stores, restaurants and theaters, continues to tick upward.<\/p>\n<p>It reached 38.3% this week, per the widely watched Kastle Systems Back to Work Barometer, which measures hundreds of city office buildings.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuozzo-covid-647.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"Eric Adams \" class=\"wp-image-21880335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuozzo-covid-647.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuozzo-covid-647.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuozzo-covid-647.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuozzo-covid-647.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>New York residents want Mayor Adams to continue moving forward with normalcy instead of going backwards. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Pacific Coast <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> \/ Luiz Rampelotto\/EuropaNewswire<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"block-aab97806-1f0e-4dfa-a727-9f7475664e16\">If that\u2019s lower than landlords want and need \u2014 and it certainly is \u2014 it beats the 23.6% physical occupancy Kastle tracked in mid-January. The trend\u00a0seems inexorably upward, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>-pumped fears about another big COVID wave.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times might prefer the pandemic to last forever. Nothing ever beat the bug to\u00a0empower governmental micromanagement of business and the social order, to say nothing of individual lives.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-aab97806-1f0e-4dfa-a727-9f7475664e16\">The paper daily warns us of the risk. It dutifully parrots every\u00a0doomsayer who reminds us, \u201cWe may be done with the virus, but the virus isn\u2019t done with us.\u201d The latest mouthpiece was city Comptroller Brad Lander, who tested positive last week.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuozzo-covid-646.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Brad Lander\" class=\"wp-image-21880334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuozzo-covid-646.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuozzo-covid-646.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuozzo-covid-646.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>NYC Comptroller Brad Lander does not want people to get too comfortable with the idea of no more coronavirus. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"block-aab97806-1f0e-4dfa-a727-9f7475664e16\">But the health establishment and politicians who sound nostalgic for the three-month lockdown that brought the Big <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le to near-ruin in 2020 show cavalier disregard for the more enlightened pandemic perspective \u2014 that the severity of cases matters much, much more than numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Many states, even some where transmission is rising, have sensibly ceased daily updates on case numbers. But not New York!<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Even Dr. Doom himself, Anthony Fauci, advised on\u00a0ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d when the nation\u2019s coronavirus cases peaked in January: \u201cAs you get further on and the infections become less severe, it is much more relevant to focus on the hospitalizations as opposed to the total number of cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuozzo-covid-644.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Dr.Fauci\" class=\"wp-image-21880330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuozzo-covid-644.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuozzo-covid-644.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuozzo-covid-644.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Dr. Fauci let people know the coronavirus isn\u2019t going anywhere anytime soon. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"block-aab97806-1f0e-4dfa-a727-9f7475664e16\">Well, what does such a focus show?<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s Department of Health says Omicron-driven cases were running around 600 a day in early March. They\u2019ve since risen steadily to 1,981 new cases logged April 8.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-89d65f07-e7c8-4a13-aec9-8c494b7beab7\">Yet six weeks since the \u201cwave\u201d began, hospitalizations have actually <em>dropped<\/em>. Per the DOH, hospital cases that were in the low 40s per day in late February fell, for whatever reason, to the 20s by mid-March \u2014 where they have remained in April.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, hospitalizations are a \u201clagging indicator.\u201d But they don\u2019t lag by two whole months.<\/p>\n<p>Deaths that were mercifully low (below 15 per day) in early March are today mercifully even lower \u2014 below five a day over the past week. This in a city of 8.3 million people.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuoozo-covid-654.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"People wait for Covid-19 tests by Penn Station in Manhattan.\" class=\"wp-image-21880343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuoozo-covid-654.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuoozo-covid-654.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cuoozo-covid-654.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Less people have died from COVID-19 after being vaccinated. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"block-89d65f07-e7c8-4a13-aec9-8c494b7beab7\">Only two deaths were reported citywide for April 8. Allowing that fatalities may not all be recorded for several days after, does anyone expect that the final figure for April 8, 2022, will approach the 771 deaths of April 8, 2020?<\/p>\n<p>The reasons, of course, are widespread vaccination, which powerfully protects most people from the virus\u2019 capacity to damage lungs, and a relatively weaker virus strain than the one that ravaged the unvaccinated millions in the pandemic\u2019s horrific early months.<\/p>\n<p>In most every way, our great city looks and feels more like its old self despite crime rates that are rising alarmingly. The apartments from which many fled two years ago are now so in demand that the talk is of a shortage rather than a glut.<\/p>\n<p>This is no time for an uptick in COVID cases \u2014 many so mild that they wouldn\u2019t have gotten me out of high-school gym class \u2014 to blunt our progress. Adams must remain steadfast in his vision to keep the city moving forward, no matter how much heat he takes from fear-stoking \u201cexperts.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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