After northern and western parts of the New York State suffered a surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations, the wave appears to have moved downstate, hitting the Hudson Valley and increasingly also New York City and Long Island. Most of the infections stem from the Omicron variant of the virus, according to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19 has jumped from about 2,000 in mid-November to more than 6,700 on Dec. 28, according to data published by the state’s health department.
