Tributes to lost love ones adorn a fence outside Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery where many victims of COVID-19 are buried, Thursday, May 28, 2020 in New York.

COVID By the Numbers in NYC

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 22, 2021

In some areas of New York City, positivity rates are reaching 15 percent. Jake Dobkin, co-founder of Gothamist, where he's been the de facto numbers-cruncher in chief for all things COVID-19, runs through the latest numbers, including on positivity rates, case rates, hospitalizations and vaccinations.

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