203 COVID-19 Positives in Rye; 1,410 Westchester Resident Deaths – Thursday, June 18, 2020

(PHOTO: Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer during his June 18, 2020 press briefing.)

For Thursday, Westchester reported the following City of Rye numbers:

203 total COVID-19 cases since inception;
3 active COVID-19 cases (this assumes the remaining 200 have run the average two week contagion cycle and are no longer active);
1 new COVID-19 cases

Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer held his COVID-19 briefing from the Michaelian Office Building in White Plains. He was joined by Village of Scarsdale Mayor Marc Samwick. Latimer talked about phasing out his daily COVID-19 updates “I’ve been asked when do I shut down the George show.” See our article from Thursday morning on when the COVID-19 daily updates will be phased out. Latimer announced county offices will be closed Friday to honor Juneteenth.

Just like everyone else, Latimer is looking at the NY State COVID-19 tracker for county and state level statistics on the pandemic and at the NY State regional  monitoring dashboard to see our progress towards continued reopening.

Important to note expanded reporting now shows fatality data from all nursing homes in the State, including The Osborn in Rye.

The COVID-19 numbers:

Fatalities of Westchester residents:1,410
Fatalities at Westchester nursing homes – The Osborn Home in Rye is reporting six (6) confirmed COVID-19 deaths and six (6) presumed COVID-19 deaths thru June 17th (that’s no new confirmed deaths since the prior update). There is no data from Rye Manor or Vienna Senior Housing.)
Fatalities in Westchester: 1,542
Numbers of persons tested: 223,373
Tested positive: 34,409
% Positive results: 15.4%
Persons tested today: 3,998
New positives today: 24