ALBANY, N.Y. – A year after becoming a global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, New York and New Jersey are back atop the list of U.S.
states with the highest rates of infection. Even as the vaccination campaign has ramped up, the number of new infections in New Jersey has crept up by 37% in a little more than a month, to about 23,600 every seven days.
About 50,000 people per week in New York are testing positive for the virus, a number that hasn’t much changed since mid-February.
The two states now rank No. 1 and 2 in new infections per capita. New Jersey has been reporting about 647 new cases for every 100,000 residents over the past 14 days.