After rising in May and tapering off in June, severe COVID-19 cases are now increasing again — and amid this spike, the Adams administration has given contradictory answers as to why it's closing testing facilities.
Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, epidemiologist and director of Brown University's Pandemic Center.
But PCR testing remains the best window for tracking how the coronavirus spreads through the community, Nuzzo said. It is also the window to following the variants, as a laboratory test is the first step in sequencing mutations. By Tuesday night, city health commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan had taken to his official account on Twitter to back up the mayor’s message.Vasan’s response centered on the city’s efforts to roll out at-home tests this spring. He said the city had doled out 35 million home tests to New Yorkers via “a network of nearly 200 libraries and cultural sites and over 850 trusted community-based organizations” in recent months.
Gothamist’s analysis, however, found that the total hours operated by these mobile sites also decreased over the spring. For example, the total hours that mobile sites were open in the Bronx was cut from about 1,200 during the week of April 18 to 1,000 during the week of June 27. About 600 mobile van hours were cut citywide over this time period.
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