And the next chart shows the same data for the rest of New York state:
provides just the main graphs for New York, without much explanation.
On January 4, 2022, the New York State Department of Health began distinguishing between patients hospitalized for Covid versus patients admitted for other reasons but found to be Covid-positive upon admission. By looking at the percentage of hospital patients NOT being treated for Covid who nevertheless tested positive for Covid, this data makes it possible to estimate the percentage of the population that is Covid-positive. The charts at the top of the page are data from February onward; here is the full data, including the very high Omicron peak in January 2022, for both New York City (blue line) and New York state sans NYC (red line):
Biobot doesn't have significant wastewater data for New York (only fragmentary data for Nassau County), so a Covid wastewater curve is not available.
Here are the weekly pre-pandemic death rates (from all causes) for New York City. The gray dots are individual data points, the blue line is a moving average of that data, and the red line is a smoothed seasonal average for the years 2015-2019, repeated annually.
Here is the same for New York state minus NYC:
And here are the death rates during the pandemic years (through September 2023, when the CDC stopped reporting this data):
The death rate in New York City hit peaks of 6293, 7862 and 5899 deaths during the weeks ending April 4, 11 and 18, 2020—six to eight times the normal death rate during those weeks.
Here are the death totals for the three waves of the pandemic, plus the post-Omicron period. First for New York City alone:
And for New York state minus NYC:
Using the hospital positivity estimates, the percent of Covid-positive individuals who are being treated in hospitals for Covid can be calculated. Here is the data for New York City:
And here is the data for New York state, excluding NYC:
