Along with other downstate areas that have rising "positivity rates"? 

For "the health of the state" (to quote Randolph Bourne), there's 
nothing quite like still more "cure" worse than the non-disease.

MCM

NEWS

New York scrutinizes COVID-19 spikes in downstate communities



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Amanda Fries
Sep. 28, 2020Updated: Sep. 28, 2020 2:29 p.m.
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ALBANY - New York saw its coronavirus positivity rate climb to 1.5 percent on Sunday as cases spiked in downstate counties over the weekend, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Monday.

Cuomo said the state conducted 52,000 tests Sunday, and 834 were positive, signaling a statewide infection rate of about 1.5 percent. The governor said the increase is largely being driven by specific communities in the New York City region. Taking out the top 20 zipcodes with the highest infection rates would put New York's statewide infection rate at about 1 percent, Cuomo said.

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"Brooklyn is a major contributor in the number of cases, and then Orange and Rockland (counties)," he said. "We have specific zip codes in Brooklyn that we are going to be looking at because it's very targeted."

Later Monday, Cuomo held a second press call to provide an overview of positivity rates in these communities, ranging from as high as 30 percent to 6 percent.

In the 10977 zip code of Rockland County, Cuomo said the positivity rate is 30 percent; in the Kings County (Brooklyn) zip code of 11219 it is 17 percent; and in the Queens County zip code of 11367 it is 6 percent.

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