New York Revises Its Quarantine List As COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Rise in the US; warn about travel during the holidays

What you should know

• New restrictions go into effect Tuesday in Newark, where its mayor says it is seeing more new COVID cases than all other Essex County cities combined; is part of a larger recent increase in cases in New Jersey
• Governor Andrew Cuomo touts his micro-clustering strategy as an effective containment approach in New York, though daily new cases and hospitalization totals have reached month-long highs in recent weeks.
• The three-state trends are when new infections per day are increasing in 47 US states AND deaths per day are increasing in 34; 40 US jurisdictions are on New York’s quarantine list, due to be updated on Tuesday

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NEW YORK – New restrictions take effect Tuesday in New Jersey’s largest city as officials struggle to contain mounting COVID-19 cases, a situation that mirrors many cities and states across the United States as cases rise. new per day in nearly 50 states.

Deaths per day have skyrocketed 10 percent in just the past two weeks across the country, prompting a growing number of states and cities to implement new restrictions. Calls to avoid vacation travel amid the latest surge continue to rise.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was the last to join the chorus on Tuesday, as he asked the federal government to order all domestic and international travelers to test negative for COVID-19 before boarding the planes.

“Everyone will make their own decisions, and I know there are painful choices,” de Blasio said. “For those who travel, please recognize how important it is to get tested and recognize that there is a very strict quarantine in New York State. The vast majority of US states are now on the quarantine list.”

Newly confirmed infections per day are increasing in 47 states and deaths in 34, according to Johns Hopkins. Death is a lagging indicator, meaning it may not be long before more states lose more people. Right now, the United States is averaging nearly 800 deaths a day, a far cry from the 2,200 it was seeing in late April, but a puzzling trend as cold weather and the holidays approach.

Forty US states and territories are on New York’s quarantine list, which will be updated on Tuesday. The order currently applies to the following US areas: Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi , Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming and Wisconsin.

Three more states – New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania – meet the threshold of new cases per 100,000 residents to be there as well, but Cuomo has said that border control with neighboring states is impractical.

There will be no travel restrictions in all four states, but Cuomo, along with Murphy and Governor Ned Lamont, have urged people, both together and independently, to avoid nonessential tri-state travel as much as possible. With the holidays approaching and the weather getting colder, which means an increased risk of COVID related to indoor activities, the threat of out-of-state tides looms large.

In Newark, non-essential businesses, including indoor food service, must close at 8 p.m. Salons and hair salons can only be operated by appointments and gyms must close for half an hour every hour to disinfect, reducing the service time essentially in half. The new restrictions are expected to be in effect until at least November 10.

The localized rules were mandated by the mayor of Newark, not the governor of New Jersey, and are less severe than the hyper-specific geographic ones that Governor Andrew Cuomo imposed on narrow access points within New York. In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy said he supports Ras Baraka’s decision in Newark and will provide additional state assistance on testing, contact tracing and compliance.

Murphy, who has been in voluntary isolation after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday despite testing negative himself on multiple occasions, has refused to implement new virus control measures to combat the increases. recent events in virtually every part of New Jersey as new case totals rise to May highs.

The governor has reported more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases a day for more than a week. It added another 1,663 on Tuesday, bringing the total since March to more than 231,000, along with another 14 confirmed deaths from COVID-19.

“These numbers are sobering. We are still in the midst of a pandemic and we need everyone to take this seriously,” Murphy tweeted.

According to Murphy, there has been no evidence that something he can regulate, like indoor dinners or gyms, for example, is causing the spread. He can’t control what happens in people’s private homes, and he says those are increasingly becoming the source of new cases. Instead, it urges people to be smart.

New York’s daily case totals, as well as total hospitalizations, have also risen in recent weeks amid its battle of affected groups. In general, the infection rate remains low; the state has the third lowest level in the nation, according to data Monday from Johns Hopkins. New Jersey has the thirteenth lowest rate, a sharp drop from where it was during the summer, but still better than most of the country.

Cuomo has touted his micro-cluster strategy as an effective containment approach, criticizing White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for recent comments that the federal government cannot “control” the pandemic. The New York Governor says the numbers in his state – rates for focus areas go down across the board – show that you can control when people participate, evidence is available, and governments execute compliance and enforcement strategies. effective way.

Increasingly, that lesson is learned the hard way. Dozens of American colleges and universities have seen rampant outbreaks of COVID-19 in recent months; most of those schools did not require testing before students returned to campus. Others have been denounced for not enforcing the COVID-19 protocol.

The State University of New York has been hit hard by several outbreaks, including one at SUNY Oneota in September, just two weeks after students returned to campus. The SUNY Chancellor said Tuesday that campus students from all 64 SUNY colleges and universities must test negative within 10 days of the Thanksgiving break. Most SUNY campuses will move completely remote afterward.

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