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The New York City’s Department of Health reports, 594 people contracted COVID in the last seven days. Bronx and Queens leads with the most cases as of last Monday (8/9/2023). Flushing and Clearview are the neighborhoods that are seeing bigger spike.
They added, “It looks like Omicron, but it’s dodging immunity a little bit more. It’s kind of like the new thing that’s going to happen with COVID every single time, which is we’ll see it change a little bit enough just for it to kind of stay relevant,” said Dr. Eric Cioe Pena, vice president of the Center for Global Health of Northwell Health.
