Co-op City, Edenwald lead NYC in COVID-19 hospitalizations as cases rise

Co-op City and Edenwald are seeing the highest rates of hospitalizations in NYC amid the recent COVID-19 wave.

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The Co-op City and Edenwald sections of the Bronx have the highest rate of hospitalizations citywide, according to data released Thursday.

If you’ve heard jokes about the “Eris” Tour, it’s not a new segment of Taylor Swift’s concert series. It’s a nod to something else making its way around the country: a subvariant of Omicron called EG.5, nicknamed Eris.

Weekly COVID-19 hospital admissions have been rising in the United States in recent weeks, leading to 10,320 visits the week of Aug. 5, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. Still, visits are less than a fourth of what they were during a peak in early January of this year.

Cases have also been on the rise in New York City since mid-to-late July, though the trend has been falling back down among those vaccinated while the increase has been stark among those unvaccinated, according to NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene data through Aug. 5.

As of Thursday, the city health department has tracked a daily average of 672 cases and one death over the past week. The health department only includes results from PCR tests, and not at home tests, however.

The Co-op City and Edenwald sections of the Bronx — or the 10475 zip code — rose to the highest rate of hospitalizations in all of New York City at 25.7 per 100,000 people, according to July 7-Aug. 3 data just released by the health department on Thursday. Previously, the area ranked second highest behind Ocean Hill and Brownsville in Brooklyn from June 30-July 27.

While the second though fifth highest hot spots are in other boroughs, Mott Haven ranks sixth with 19.1 per 100,000 and Allerton/Norwood/Pelham Parkway/Williamsbridge is seventh with 18.6.

Hospitalizations include people who are in the hospital because of COVID-19 as well as those…