NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Mayor Bill de Blasio touted “good news” in New York City Friday in its fight against the coronavirus as the number of people being admitted into the city’s hospitals, going into intensive care unit beds and testing positive for the virus all moved on a downward trend.

“Today I am happy to say we have just plain good news, our indicators are now moving all in the correct direction which is down,” he told reporters during a press conference.

For the past nearly two weeks, the mayor has been keeping track of three indicators to determine whether the city can begin relaxing its coronavirus restrictions.

One is the number of New Yorkers being admitted into the city’s hospitals, the second, patients in its 11 public hospitals’ intensive care units, and third, the rate of New Yorkers testing positive for coronavirus.

However, the mayor has left out the entire borough of Staten Island and private hospitals from his daily ICU projections and has said that despite the omission, his projections still paint an accurate picture of how the coronavirus is impacting New York City.

Instead, the mayor has been keeping track of the reality of ICU admissions in only 11 public hospitals within the Health + Hospitals network in the other four boroughs.

He has said he was only using ICU numbers from public hospitals because the city could get more consistent data from them than from private hospitals across the city.

On Friday, the mayor said hospital admissions had dropped from 227 to 176 over a three day period.

He also said the number of people in ICU beds had dropped from 796 to 786 over a three day period and people testing positive for the virus citywide had dropped by 2%, while New Yorkers testing positive for coronavirus at public health labs had dropped by 5% over that same time period.

He called the public hospitals’ ICU projections an area the city needed to “see much more progress.”

“Everyone out there you did this, social distancing, shelter in place, you made this happen, now we’ve gotta keep doing it,” he said of the downward trend of the three indicators.

“The plan that we stated from the beginning, do this, all indicators down, we need to do that for 10 days to two weeks and that’s when we can actually start to talk about how to begin loosening up some of these restrictions and taking a step toward normalcy,” he continued.

Though the city has not been factoring ICU admissions outside of its 11 public hospitals in its daily indicator projections, it does track citywide hospital admissions and the rate of New Yorkers testing positive for the virus across the city.

Staten Island is the only borough without a public hospital and relies on two private hospitals, Richmond University Medical Center and Staten Island University Hospital, which is part of the Northwell Health system.

Though Staten Island has the lowest number of cases citywide, accounting for just 7% of the city’s 141,754 total cases as of Thursday, the borough has one of the highest numbers of cases per capita in the city after the Bronx.

On Staten Island, RUMC has consistently provided a breakdown of coronavirus patients in the ICU but SIUH has not.

On Thursday, of the 129 coronavirus patients RUMC was treating, 46 of them were in the ICU, the day before, 51 in the ICU.

SIUH could not provide the number of patients it had treated in the ICU to date, only saying that as of Thursday, there were just over 100 patients in its ICU at its North and South campuses for coronavirus related illnesses.

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