Daily COVID-19 Count: 220 Positives in Rye; 1,449 Westchester Resident Deaths – Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Remember that Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer moved his COVID-19 briefings from daily to a once-a-week on Mondays. So no briefing Tuesday through Fridays, but we do expect to continue to post weekday COVID-19 counts for Rye and Westchester County for the foreseeable future.
For Wednesday, August 19th, Westchester reported the following City of Rye numbers:
220 total COVID-19 cases since inception;
1 active COVID-19 cases (this assumes the remaining 219 have run the average two week contagion cycle and are no longer active);
0 new COVID-19 cases
Just like everyone else, county executives look 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: 1,449
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 August 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: 1,581
Numbers of persons tested: 471,880
Tested positive: 36,563
% Positive results: 7.7%
Persons tested today: 4,578
New positives today: 23
