The 21.2% infection rate in New York City would suggest that more than 1.7 million city residents have had the virus.
More than 21% of the New York City residents randomly given coronavirus antibody tests earlier this week tested positive, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a news conference on Thursday.
Statewide, 13.9% of the 3,000 individuals tested were positive for coronavirus antibodies, meaning “these were people who were infected and who developed the antibodies to fight the infection,” Cuomo said. New York state has 263,460 confirmed cases of coronavirus and a total of 15,740 people have died, 438 of them on Tuesday alone.
Earlier Wednesday, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, said she wouldn’t be surprised if “close to a million New Yorkers have been exposed to COVID-19.”If the people tested “were all people who never had symptoms and were going out to shop for their family,” it would bring up very different results than “if everyone who was shopping was a health-care worker,” said Dr.
Widespread antibody testing is thought to be one of the key components in the process of restarting the economy and identifying who can safely return to work.But there is not enough evidence that a positive antibody test indicated immunity, warned Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, deputy commissioner for the Division of Disease Control at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in an alert to medical providers on Wednesday.
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