Reports are that the truck struck people at different locations in Brooklyn. The truck has been stopped and the driver is in custody, however, NYPD still checking the truck to make sure it presents no additional threat.

Unconfirmed reports that this could be an act of terrorism.

Edit: WABC reporting that the truck was cleared by the Bomb Squad.

Found this interesting:

>On Friday, Kavanagh read a biting statement to the 20 or so top department chiefs gathered, suggesting she was highly dissatisfied with department leadership in recent weeks.

>“Over the last eight weeks, since we’ve made some changes, many requests have made it to my office,” the commissioner said. “Requests for vehicles, requests for promotions, requests for something that served the bottom line of a single person here in the room.

>“What has not come to my desk is a plan to make our members safer,” Kavanagh fumed. “What has not come to my desk is a plan to reduce fire deaths in the Bronx, which are spiking.

>What has not come to my desk is a plan to purchase our next [self-contained breathing apparatuses]. What has not come to my desk with a list of things our members could use to get their jobs done better,” she said.

>“What has not come to my desk is a list of things to bring into bargaining to pay our members more. Not a single idea of what would help the membership and the citizens of New York has made it to my desk.”

The data set does not include home tests, yes, but I don't understand your point. The recent historical data from the past two months also does not include home tests. This is a representative sample of data.

Also, hospitalizations and fatalities and are still a reliable indicator of trends regardless of how people are testing.

Missed this post earlier, but I'd like to share some data. For context here:

1. NYC Covid Dashboard - positivity, hospitalizations, deaths all decreasing. Source: https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page

2. NYS Covid Dashboard (NYC) - seven day average positivity has been declining for over two weeks and is the lowest it's been in over a month. Source: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/positive-tests-over-time-region-and-county

3. NYS Covid Hospitalizations (NYC data) - Covid hospitalizations are the lowest they've been since roughly Thanksgiving. Source: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/daily-hospitalization-summary

All of these measures are trending downward, so this 'plea' seems a little bit misplaced.

For context, it was 1.7B in 2019.