County Executive Jason Garnar

“There is a dry ice shortage, so we're fighting through that as well,” Broome County Executive Jason Garnar said. “We're doing everything we can to get extra dry ice.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul said the storm affected 11 counties, from the Southern Tier to the North Country.

Broome County is in a State of Emergency, as an April storm has dropped over a foot of snow and left thousands without power.

A month ago, the county was reporting 20 to 40 daily positive cases. Now, county officials say they're seeing around 100 cases a day.

Thousands of cars lined the streets leading into Otsiningo Park on Wednesday. County officials had set up a drive-thru site to distribute 10,000 at-home COVID tests.

“The next month will likely be the most difficult month that we’ve ever seen in the pandemic."

A total of 12 cases have been detected in New York state so far. Nineteen states across the U.S. have reported cases of Omicron.