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The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the deadliest disasters by death toll in the history of New York City. [ 5][ 6][ 7] As of August 19, 2023 the city's confirmed COVID-19 deaths exceeded 45,000 and probable deaths exceeded 5,500. [ 4] As of July 11, 2022, New York City has administered 17,956,430 COVID-19 vaccine doses.
As of January 6, 2023, over one third of New York City neighborhoods had COVID-19 positivity rates in excess of 20% and four out of five neighborhoods exceeded 15%, largely due to the highly infectious XBB.1.5 variant. This particular variant accounted for 80.8% of the city's cases, compared to the projected U.S. prevalence of 61%. [173]
The first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. state of New York during the pandemic was confirmed on March 1, 2020, [2] and the state quickly became an epicenter of the pandemic, with a record 12,274 new cases reported on April 4 and approximately 29,000 more deaths reported for the month of April than the same month in 2019. [7]
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The Families First Coronavirus Response Act is an Act of Congress ( H.R. 6201) meant to respond to the economic impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The act provides funding for free coronavirus testing, 14-day paid leave for American workers affected by the pandemic, and increased funding for food stamps. [ 1]
A resident in one of the city’s homeless shelters was hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus — the first confirmed case of the disease in the city’s crowded shelter system.
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic ), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It spread to other areas of Asia, and then worldwide in early 2020.
Xenophobic blaming by ethnicity and religion. UN video warns that misinformation against groups may lower testing rates and increase transmission. COVID-19-related xenophobic attacks have been made against individuals with the attacker blaming the victim for COVID-19 on the basis of the victim's ethnicity.