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COVID transmission has climbed steadily since the spring, according to data from hospital patients COVID tests. New York states wastewater concentrations have held steady so far, but city wastewater data shows that some parts of the city are in the 80th percentile or above compared to past COVID levels.

New York Citys hospitalization rate is elevated compared to last summers figures, but it hasnt quite caught up to the most recent December-January peak. NYC Health and Hospitals, the citys public hospital system, reinstated its mask mandate as of last December, the New York Daily News reported. And in July, the city health department re-upped its recommendation that New Yorkers wear masks indoors.

In recent weeks, the viral landscape has been dominated by the FLiRT variants, a collective name for a family of substrains whose technical names start with JN and KP. The capital letters in FLiRT are shorthand for the mutations that help these substrains cling to our cells and fend off antibodies, according to the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

Theres not much available research yet on the most recent COVID vaccines effectiveness against the new variants. But the shots can still protect against severe disease, hospitalization and death, according to the CDC.

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