Only 6 Inwood Residents Tested Positive For COVID-19 Last Week

INWOOD, NY — The Inwood adult population has reached the 50 percent first dose vaccination mark, and while that number is lower than the majority of the borough, the neighborhood continues to see its COVID-19 rates plummet.

For the most recently recorded week, June 13-19, just six people from Inwood's 10034 and 10040 ZIP codes tested positive for COVID-19, according to city data.

Written a different way, less than one Inwood resident per day tested positive for the virus last week.

Here's a breakdown of the numbers:

• 10034 (Inwood): 3 people positive from 835 people tested, 0.36 percent positivity rate.
• 10040 (Inwood/Fort George): 3 people positive from 867 tested, 0.35 percent positivity rate.

Nearly 52 percent of Inwood adults have gotten the first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to city data. Many areas of Manhattan have a first shot vaccination rate of over 70 percent, but Inwood's vaccine numbers are similar to other neighborhood's uptown.

The lower COVID-19 positivity rate in the 10040 ZIP code is particularly smile-inducing to see as the Inwood enclave consistently registered the highest rate in Manhattan. At the end of February, the 10040 ZIP code was the only ZIP code in the borough to have a one-week virus positivity rate of over 10 percent.

The COVID-19 positivity rates didn't drop under 7 percent in the two ZIP codes until the middle of March. To give perspective on the sub 0.5 percent rates currently seen in Inwood during June, the seven-day positivity average from March 9 through 15 in the 10034 ZIP code was 6.45 percent and 10040's was 6.14 percent.

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The current COVID-19 rates are the lowest seen in Inwood since the city began tracking the data by ZIP code in the fall of 2020.

You can check out the COVID-19 rates for yourself on the city's website.