Latimer Twice Weekly Briefing: (5 New, 58 Active) 367 COVID-19 Positives in Rye; 1,506 Westchester Resident Deaths – Wednesday, November 25, 2020

(PHOTO: Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer appeared with deputy boss Ken Jenkins during his November 25, 2020 press briefing.)

For Wednesday, Westchester reported five new COVID cases in Rye. Here are all the City of Rye numbers:

367 total COVID-19 cases since inception;
58 active COVID-19 cases (this assumes the remaining 309 have run the average two week contagion cycle and are no longer active);
5 new COVID-19 cases.

With the pick-up in COVID, Latimer has moved his COVID briefings to two times a week, Mondays and Thursdays. Because of Thanksgiving this week, the second briefing was held on Wednesday.

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: 1,506
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 November 24th (that’s no new confirmed deaths since the prior update). There is no data from Rye Manor or Vienna Senior Housing.)
Fatalities in Westchester: 1,647
Numbers of persons tested: 1,048,673
Tested positive: 47,964
% Positive results: 4.6%
Persons tested today: 7,831
New positives today: 332