New York is facing another COVID wave. For restaurant workers, it’s déjà vu. chrisecrowley reports
A masked restaurant worker photographed earlier this week in Manhattan. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Last night, Andy was getting ready for a party at the Chelsea bar where he works. Like most holiday parties, it required some extra work on the part of the staff — though not for the usual reasons. “Almost half of the staff tested positive for COVID. Everyone got tested,” says Andy, who asked to remain anonymous so he could speak candidly about the situation at his work.
Roughly a month after the Omicron variant was first detected, New York is facing another COVID wave — or maybe “two waves at once,” as David Wallace-Wells wrote yesterday on Intelligencer. The CDC reports that New York and New Jersey are experiencing the fastest spread of Omicron in the country with the variant now accounting for 13 percent of cases. According to the New York Times, cases are up 135 percent and hospitalizations have increased 48 percent over the 14-day average.
At Love, Nelly in Bed-Stuy, co-owner Stephanie Gallardo closed the business when an employee tested positive. After the scheduled staff tested negative, they decided to reopen today. Yesterday, one employee waited two hours for a test only to be turned away. This was the business’s second such incident. Earlier in the week, Gallardo says, another employee discovered her roommate had tested positive, though the employee did not. “If they came back positive, we’d react in the same way.
“Everyone has fatigue including me. I think at this point, we’re like, I already got vaccinated, I changed my business, I did this, this, and this, and then there are all these people that don’t want to get vaccinated. It’s very frustrating for us that this continues to happen,” says Daniel Ortiz de Montellano Luft, an owner of Casa Pública in Williamsburg. “Now finally, they put this mandate out for people working in the private sector, but it’s a little too late.
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