Latimer Weekly Briefing: 209 COVID-19 Positives in Rye; 1,435 Westchester Resident Deaths – Monday, July 13, 2020
(PHOTO: Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer during his (now weekly) July 13, 2020 press briefing.)
For Monday, Westchester reported the following City of Rye numbers:
209 total COVID-19 cases since inception;
2 active COVID-19 cases (this assumes the remaining 207 have run the average two week contagion cycle and are no longer active);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 weekly COVID-19 briefing from HudCo, a co-working space in Dobbs Ferry. He was joined By local business owners, chambers of commerce, New York Presbyterian Hospital and municipal leaders.
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: 1,435
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 July 12th (that’s no new confirmed deaths since the prior update). There is no data from Rye Manor or Vienna Senior Housing.)
Fatalities in Westchester: 1,567
Numbers of persons tested: 320,070
Tested positive: 35,327
% Positive results: 11.0%
Persons tested today: 3,238
New positives today: 30
