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Mayor Bill de Blasio announced some more COVID-19 testing sites the city plans to open this week to meet the rising demand amid the ongoing Omicron NYC surge in cases, but hizzoner thinks the spike would only be a “fast and temporary phenomenon,” during a virtual briefing Sunday, Dec. 19.
“We expect Omicron to be a fast and temporary phenomenon. We expect these next weeks to see a very very big surge in the number of cases — more than we’ve seen previously — and then we expect, after a period of time, that it will dissipate,” Hizzoner said at his virtual press conference.
“That’s been, so far, the pattern we’ve seen in other places, notably South Africa where we first saw Omicron’s presence,” according to de Blasio.
The city’s public hospital system NYC Health + Hospitals will contract with more companies to roll out testing sites as current facilities are swamped with lines of New Yorkers stretching around blocks waiting to get swabbed.
That includes eight new brick-and-mortar sites by Tuesday, including five already announced Thursday, and 17 mobile sites by the end of the week, bringing the total more than 30 fixed and 93 mobile locations, according to Test and Trace Commissioner Ted Long.
Hubo 54 sitios fijos, pero a mediados de noviembre, la ciudad cerró repentinamente 20 de sus propios puestos públicos en medio de una caída en la inversión federal para Test and Trace, y comenzó a depender más de corporaciones externas para suministrar pruebas, el nuevo sitio el informó el pueblo.
La medida dejó algunos vecindarios con operaciones reducidas, por ejemplo en Red Hook, Brooklyn, donde la ciudad una vez realizó un control masivo del centro de recreación local del departamento de parques, pero desde entonces lo reemplazó con una camioneta de un contratista en la calle.
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Long said that all of the new facilities coming online this week will be run through private contractors — or “vendors” as officials call them — but contested that the increased reliance on private firms meant less access to tests.
“What we’ve done in some situations, like Brooklyn Army Terminal or [NYC Health + Hospitals] Bathgate, is we’ve taken what was formerly testing sites and we’ve made them into vaccine sites and we had mobile testing units outside of those sites for as long as people wanted to come and get tested there,” the hospital official said. “So for you, as a person in that community, you’ve uninterrupted testing access, that’s never changed.”
Si bien el alcalde dijo que «no habrá distinción» en la calidad entre los proveedores públicos y personales, el alto funcionario de acondicionamiento físico señaló el rápido tiempo de respuesta en los servicios controlados a través de H H.
«Si necesita un tiempo de respuesta rápido, venga a uno de mis sitios, venga a uno de nuestros sitios administrados por la ciudad», dijo Long. «Muchos de nuestros sitios le darán un resultado dentro de 12 a 18 horas y como máximo de ellos ofrecer pruebas inmediatas».
A tsunami of infections crashed down on the city in the week leading up to Christmas, with rates climbing to 6.04% across seven-day average Saturday, up from 4.39% Thursday, according to the state’s Department of Health.
Mayor de Blasio on Sunday also called on President Joe Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act to mobilize production of more resources.
“Tendremos que, dada la cantidad que se necesita en cuanto a kits de control y vacunas, volver a instar al presidente a invocar la Ley de Producción de Defensa y usar todo el equipo que tendrán los sectores público y personal para seguir suministrando materiales aquí en todo el país. ”, dijo de Blasio.
El alcalde entrante, Eric Adams, se unió brevemente a la prensa y dijo que «no había luz del día» entre él y de Blasio en relación con las políticas de COVID, no se dedica a cumplir con el amplio mandato de vacunas del titular para empresas privadas.
“We will ensure that everything in our power as the heads of the current administration and the next administration to give New Yorkers the resources they need to stay healthy and protect each other,” Adams said. “There is no daylight between the mayor and I on that commitment.”
Adams left the virtual briefing before the press got a chance to ask him questions, but maintained there would be “continuity” between the administrations.
“It has been an unprecedented coordination to have a seamless transition and handoff to make sure we fight this crisis together,” the mayor-to-be said. “There will also be continuity between his administration and mine when the new year begins so that there is no confusion or gap in our COVID response when I take office Jan. 1. The mayor and I are together on this.”
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