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Mayor Eric Adams makes an announcement and holds media availability at Elmhurst hospital. Mayor announced three-point plan to support hospitals as Omicron variant cases of COVID-19 continue
to surge. Lev Radin | LightRocket | Getty Images New York City is winning the war against the highly contagious Covid-19 omicron variant as cases trend down, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday
morning. New York City's seven-day average of new cases has dropped below 20,000, less than half of the peak from earlier January when cases averaged nearly 43,000, Adams told reporters
at a news conference. The city also reported a decrease in Covid hospitalizations, falling from about 6,500 patients on Jan. 11 to about 5,800 as of Sunday. "Let's be clear on
this," Adams said, "we are winning and we are going to win because we are resilient." Areas that originally saw a surge in omicron are starting to report a slowing number of
cases. South Africa and the United Kingdom, for example, saw an initial steep rise in cases that has slowed in recent weeks. Now, some health experts are predicting the omicron wave will
trend back down in the U.S. about as quickly as it shot up, with some expecting relatively low cases by February or March. MORE CNBC HEALTH COVERAGE * From ‘Cockroach Award’ to the Big
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health system turned to Apple The U.S. on Monday logged an average of about 685,000 new Covid cases a day over the last week, down by about 10% over the previous week, according to data
compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Still, city officials urged the public to remain vigilant against the virus. "Let me be clear, these numbers are still very high meaning community
transmission remains widespread, and we will need to follow these trends closely over the coming days and weeks," Dr. Dave Chokshi, New York City health commissioner, said at the news
conference.
