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COVID-19: Hudson Valley Sees New Increases In Positivity Rate; Latest Totals By County COVID-19: Hudson Valley Sees New Increases In Positivity Rate; Latest Totals By County
Covid-19: Hudson Valley Sees New Increases In Positivity Rate; Latest Totals By County The Hudson Valley has seen a new increase in the positivity rate for COVID-19 testing, according to newly released data on Sunday, Nov. 8. The positive testing rate in all focus areas under New York State's micro-cluster strategy is 3.72 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 2.23 percent.  Within the focus areas, 11,672 test results were reported Saturday, Nov. 7, yielding 435 positives.  In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 133,970 test results were reported, yielding 2,993 positives.  Here are positivity testing rates for the last four day…

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by Joe Lombardi
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New York Gets OK To Test Thousands A Day For COVID-19 New York Gets OK To Test Thousands A Day For COVID-19
New York Gets OK To Test Thousands A Day For Covid-19 New York will soon be conducting thousands of tests for coronavirus after receiving the green light from the federal government to outsource testing to private labs. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a briefing on Friday, March 13, that as soon as the middle of next week, the state may have the ability to conduct approximately 6,000 tests per day, which “would be a dramatic increase for us.” In total, 28 private labs throughout the state will have access to both manual and automated testing, if they have the capacity. The authorization was given on Friday. “To date, we’ve done about 3,000 tes…

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by Zak Failla