Cases are again rising and this week crossed the city’s threshold for “medium risk,” indicating the widening spread of the BA.2 subvariant that hit NY’s northern parts — but there seems to be little desire from Mayor Eric Adams to bring mask mandates back
indicating the widening spread of the subvariant knowns as BA.2 that has swept the state’s northern reaches.
“I don’t anticipate many places, if any, going back to mask mandates unless we see overflowing hospitals — that’s what would drive mask mandates,” said Professor David Larsen, a public health expert at Syracuse University in upstate New York, whose own county is currently an orange zone.New York City Mayor Eric Adams along with NYC Health + Hospitals have opened three COVID-19 Centers of Excellence located in the hardest-hit communities in the pandemic.
The muted response reflects the exhaustion of the country after two years of restrictions and the new challenges that health leaders are facing at this phase of the pandemic.
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