Neighborhoods like Tribeca, Chelsea, and Gramercy are driving New York's increase in COVID cases. Here are three reasons why Omicron seems to be the variant of the wealthy (or at least why it seems that way)
Photo: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock The Omicron wave crashed into New York the weekend before last, when seemingly half the journalists in the city caught COVID. The BuzzFeed SPAC party, David Zwirner’s holiday festivities, the LCD Soundsystem residency, and SantaCon all achieved superspreader status. And that’s what appears to be the starkest difference in this go-around: It’s the relatively well-off New York neighborhoods where people are testing positive.
Everyone Who Needs a Test Can’t Get a Test We’re nearly a year into widely available testing, but the lines outside the sites look like they did at the beginning of the pandemic. How is it that you still have to wait two or three hours — if not longer — in order to get swabbed? Well, the number of city-operated testing sites dropped from 54 to 34 in November, according to The City.
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