There's a shift in attitudes among public health officials on the best pandemic response at a time when two-thirds of Americans are fully vaccinated.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has urged she has no plans to enact new Covid-19 restrictions despite parts of upstate New York have among the highest rates in the nation. | John Minchillo/AP PhotoALBANY, N.Y. — More than two years after New York became the global epicenter for the Covid-19 pandemic, the state once again finds itself near the top of the list of U.S. hotspots.
“With the availability of vaccines, availability of home testing kits, we’re asking people to be very responsible on their own,” Hochul said at a campaign event in Albany on Tuesday. “I don’t think [a mask mandate is] going to be necessary, but we’re watching the numbers.” That shift is changing the political calculus for 2022 candidates. In an election year where more than 30 governors, Congress and many state legislatures are on the ballot, politicians have been loathe to consider mandates for fear of angering a pandemic-weary public and feeding red meat to political foes.
Instead, she said, “we need to get away from the mask wars and start focusing on issues that we can all agree on, which are things like increasing testing, treatment and availability of vaccines and boosters.”Children and their caregivers arrive for school in New York, Monday, March 7, 2022. | Seth Wenig/AP Photo
New York reported a seven-day average of about 34.5 cases of Covid per 100,000 people on Wednesday. That compares to the state’s peak in early January 2022, when the seven-day average neared 400 cases per 100,000 residents. And it is about the same level reported in early February, when Hochul ended New York’s latest statewide mask requirement.
She worked with city and county leaders to encourage local responses to curb transmission, brought on a new state health commissioner and enhanced Covid data reporting and sharing.
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