NEW YORK STATE: Infections Up 35% In A Day

WNBC - TV: New York City has modified its plans for its fully vaccinated New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, limiting the crowd to roughly 15,000 people, nearly four times less than the non-pandemic crowd, and requiring masks for all amid an omicron surge that's spawning unprecedented increases in COVID infections. 

As eye-popping as the numbers have been in recent days, Thursday afternoon's report from the state was still stunning -- 38,835 positive tests in just one day, an increase of 10,000 from the day before.

Of those, 22,208 were in New York City alone, orders of magnitude greater than anything either the city or state faced before omicron.

In simpler terms -- in just the last week, roughly 1% of all New York City residents, and 1% of all New York state residents, have tested positive for COVID.

Against that backdrop, Mayor Bill de Blasio was under heavy pressure to do something about the city's New Year's Eve plans. The mayor said Thursday that viewing areas will be filled with fewer people to allow for social distancing..... 

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