Question: We haven’t looked at New York’s data for a while. How’s New York looking?

Answer: The state is still looking pretty good (Figure 1).

• Tests have plateaued around 65K for the last couple of months (green bars)
• Test positivity rate remains very low at 1.2% (line chart) and have been <2% since the beginning of June.
• Cases have risen with reopening (yellow bars) and are the highest they’ve been in a month (Figure 2). We would expect to see cases rise to some degree with reopening. Coupled with low test positivity rates, things are still looking pretty good, though we must be ever vigilant!
• Hospitalizations are at their lowest level (orange bars)
• Deaths are also at their lowest (red bars)
• Some of the trends may be easier to visualize looking at weekly data, which is presented in Figure 3.

Figure 1. New York Tests, Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths (data from covidtracking.com)

Figure 2. Weekly Cases are as high as they were the week of June 7th

Figure 3. Weekly Trends in Tests, Cases, and Hospitalizations