New York City mayor Bill de Blasio Monday “strongly recommended” every New Yorker, including fully-vaccinated people and those who have had the virus, should wear masks in all indoor public places due to the potential for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 to arrive. In a press conference yesterday, Governor Kathy Hochul said the situation is being closely monitored, and she fully expects it to arrive here…
Dr. Kirsten St. George is the Director of Virology at the New York Wadsworth Lab, and she says continuous monitoring of positive COVID specimens has not yet found any evidence of the new strain being in the country or the state…
The governor also says she’s concerned about the number of COVID hospitalizations trending up while the number of available hospital beds is going down.