According to the latest statistics from the New York City Department of Health, Roosevelt Island’s positive rate for coronavirus infections is just 1.96%.
The numbers are well under the Manhattan borough rate of 3.35% and the city overall rate of 6.32%.
Only 9 out of 459 tested came up positive.
These are seven day rolling averages for the week ending March 24th, 2021.
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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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