This was reported by the story Matthew Chase, John Greila And Bart Jones. It was written by Jones.
One day after New York announced that New York would receive its first vaccine to combat coronavirus, Governav. Andrew M. Kumo showed a box with dry ice, vials and trays, to show how the attempt to deliver the dose is crystallized.
The governor continued the demonstration, as the daily number of newly confirmed cases of Covid-1 jumped to Suffolk County for the second day in a row, surpassing 1,000 for the first time since April 23, putting the county back in its worst epidemic. Day.
In Albany, Cuomo said the process of delivery, storage and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine is complicated, but the state is training and equipping its workers to make it.
“They are real and they are being manufactured and they will be shipped,” Kumo said of the Pfizer vaccine, which is expected to reach the state by December 15. “… and we’re working hard to get ready for delivery and training. People… but this is the weapon that’s going to win the war and it’s the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s not tomorrow, it’s not a short tunnel.” But the state will do it.
Kumo explained in detail how vaccine transport boxes work, saying they have GPS tracking and also thermal measuring devices to ensure the temperature stays very cool to keep the vaccine at bay.
He said dry ice must be changed every five days, and each box contains about 5,000 doses, as each vial contains five doses alone.
The BX is only opened twice a day, and each time for 60 to 90 seconds, he said. The vials remain frozen in the bunks, melt at room temperature for 30 minutes, then melt and stand for two hours. Health workers then have six hours to administer the vaccine before they become useful.
He noted that these vaccines, and vials contain them, It is being manufactured by two New York-based companies, Pfizer and Corning Glass Manufacturer.
The first of a series of expected batches this month will be dedicated to the 170,000 residents and staff and front line workers of the nursing home. The announcement of their imminent arrival comes amid a surge in new positives that Cuomo says are being fueled by holiday gatherings, starting with Thanksgiving and expected in mid-January or later.
Suffolk has risen to 1,100 cases
More than 1,100 positives have been reported in Suffolk County in the last 24 hours, according to new health statistics released Thursday. Thae compared the county’s top 1,569 new cases on April 8.
On Wednesday, Suffolk and Nassau together reported a total of 1,792 newly confirmed cases, the number of which was also comparable to some days in April.
The local increase is part of a statewide increase in infections with the fall season, measured at a positive rate of 84.8484% across the state from test results on Wednesday. That percentage includes high-level and case-oversampling of state-designated microclusters because of their high-level spread.
Cuomo said one challenge for the state is managing the growing need for hospital beds as more such positive cases lead to hospital admissions in New York.
Total number of Kovid-1 patients in the state 1 Wednesday. Increased to 0.63 to by Wednesday, of which 3,783 were treated in intensive care units and 7.7 respiratory distress needed end-to-end induction. Thirty-one people died of coronavirus-related causes in the state on Wednesday.
The number of patients with the virus rose to 188 on Long Island last week, while its hospitals in New York City had 249 more patients. The 605 people currently hospitalized for Long Island represent 0.02% of the population. In New York City, 0.01% of residents, or 1,255 patients, are hospitalized.
State statistics show that, in total, the state has approximately, 000,000 hospital beds, and currently has 35,000 occupations, with CO, 063 CO among COVID-1 CO patients, state statistics show. At the peak of the epidemic in the spring, there were about 19,000 COVID-19 patients in the state, Cuomo said, adding that the state is ready to maintain and operate hospital systems free-bed.
Among the options, he cited the end of alternative surgeries and the expansion of the system to increase capacity in the spring.
County executive Steve Bello said residents are concerned about the possibility of more cases if COVID-19 is exhausted.
“We are working to address this second wave of COVID-19 as actively as possible,” he said. “Concerned about small indoor gatherings where I’m an individual and this is almost natural, I can’t stress enough to put its guards down a bit.”
That pace of new coronavirus cases has brought the county to a 6% positivity rate. The county also detected 287 patients with coronavirus-related illnesses in hospitals, 50 of whom are treated in intensive care units.
The cases are related to a few Suffolk restaurants
County health officials said visitors to two Suffolk restaurants, a Mount Sinai and a Wedding River shortly before Thanksgiving were exposed to Covid-119.
Health department officials said in a statement Wednesday that the two rest restaurants are at the Rents Sintr Taco Mexican Grill and Bar Sinai Mount, and the Phil Restaurant in the Wedding River. Representatives from both stations were not immediately available.
At Sior Taco, the potential contagion was on November 20 and 24. At Phil Restaurant, a potential contagion Nov. Was on the 20th, 21st, 23rd and 24th, health officials said.
People who are likely to monitor themselves for coronavirus symptoms for 14 days after visiting the restaurant said they are encouraged to get tested, the Suffolk Health Department said.
Carol Munara, co-owner of Sior Taco, said the group’s four restaurants have been almost entirely converted to curbside delivery – which now accounts for 95% of their business, and includes other security guards, including relocating to contactless payment devices.
“We are very vigilant,” Munar said by telephone. “This is a family-owned business,” founded by his parents 25 years ago, with a lot of sweat.
“We’re doing everything we can to keep our customers and employees safe.”
Phil’s spokesmen were not immediately available.
The third establishment, the Taylor Restaurant in Islip, could also expose patrons on Nov. 16 and 17, the county health department said Nov. 25.
Islip-based BRG, owned by Taylors, outlines the numerous and costly precautions set up by Sheila Hale, marketing director for her four New York restaurants, including weekly site testing of her employees, and the installation of MERV13 filtration systems to remove the virus. Particles.
“We did everything possible … so that every man could be as safe as possible.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, cough, shortness of breath or shortness of breath, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, runny nose or runny nose. , Nausea or vomiting or diarrhea.
Infections are on the rise in NYC
Coronavirus infection is on the rise in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday, giving further evidence that a second wave of the virus is spreading in the city.
The average positive test result over seven days, which ended on Tuesday, was 5.19%, with 1,962 new people infected, he said.
In addition: the number of people admitted to the hospital – 174 – with suspected COVID-19.
“Longer, longer than what we’re seeing now, we’ve been seeing, unfortunately, whether these three indicators are all moving in the wrong direction,” he said.
His comments came a day after the governorship. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that New York would receive the first batch of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s vaccine for coronavirus on December 15, with a sufficient dose to cover 170,000 people.
The state also expects the vaccine to come from biotechnology company Moderna by the end of the month and continue to come forward on a rolling basis from both companies, Kuamo said.
This would be part of the national vaccination pressure that would be enough to vaccinate about 40 million doses or 20 million people – about 6% of the U.S. population, Cooma said. The first dose is taken after 21 days.
The state said it would take anywhere from June to September to vaccinate 75% to 85% of the people so that the country could regain its normal state.
On the same day it announced the first distribution of vaccines, new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Skyrocket were found overnight in Long Island, following the dark days of the epidemic in April. The above infection trend worries experts.
Late last month, for the first time since April, the area surpassed 1,000 new confirmed cases a day. In figures released on Wednesday, the number has risen to about 1,800.
The number of newly confirmed cases in Nassau from the results on Tuesday was 6૨ and in Suflok 6666 in, a total of 1,792.
It came close to some figures in mid-April when the epidemic was in its worst period. For example, as of April 11, there were 933 newly confirmed cases in Suffolk. The next day, Nassau had 805.
In the summer, each county often has less than 60 new confirmed cases a day.
Cuomo has warned the state that there is likely to be an increase in cases starting with Thanksgiving and lasting at least until mid-January.
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