Study finds more than quarter of city adults infected during winter omicron wave
A quarter of New York City adults — 1.8 million people — got COVID-19 during the latter half of the winter omicron surge, according to a study from CUNY’s School of Public Health, showing further evidence that the surge may have rivaled or even exceeded the cases during the coronavirus’ first wave.
The study found that only about half of total positive test results and likely cases made it into the city’s data collection efforts, which only count PCR tests conducted at a city-run location, or through private providers and pop-up locations.