After the first 4-day week of rapid COVID-19 testing at the RIOC sponsored location at 524 Main Street, there’s little change overall in tests or results.
For the week ending on Saturday, the New York City Department of Health reports 463 tests among those of us with 10044 zip codes, consistent with previous weeks, and a positivity rate of 3.46%, far under the city average of 8.68%
Our last report, on January 4th, showed an infection rate of 3.57% against a city average of 9.31%.
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“I Can Ask”
Chair Fay Christian opened the Operations Advisory Committee on February 12th, reading out member names from a prepared sheet that omitted Melissa Wade. It didn’t feel intentional, but it struck me as odd precisely because it came from something prepared. Lydia Tang gently corrected her, noting that Wade was, in fact, a member of the committee. Wade met the moment with grace, or perhaps she simply wasn’t bothered by it.
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