The pandemic isn’t over just because you’re over it. Unfortunately. According to citywide COVID-19 data, the infection rates in North Brooklyn increased during this past week.
Zip code 11222 reached a 5.43% positivity rate from testing between January 3 and January 9th. Zip codes 11211 and 11249 experienced a 5.49% positivity rate during the same period. Considering several Manhattan neighborhoods are still at rates around 3%, a number familiar to Greenpoint until early 2021.
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