10 New, 117 Active, 684 Total COVID-19 Positives in Rye; 1,664 Deaths in Westchester – Thursday, December 31, 2020

(PHOTO: George Latimer at his COVID-19 briefing December 31, 2020.)

On Thursday, Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer held his last COVID-19 briefing for the year. He warned of an expected spike in COVID cases in the wake of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. “We know the numbers have a good chance of getting a lot worse in the next few weeks before getting better.”

For Thursday, December 30th, Westchester reported the following City of Rye numbers via the County COVID dashboard.

684 total COVID-19 cases since inception;
117 active COVID-19 cases (this assumes the remaining 567 have run the average two week contagion cycle and are no longer active);
10 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: 1,664
Fatalities at Westchester nursing homes – The Osborn Home in Rye is reporting six (6) confirmed COVID-19 nursing home deaths, six (6) presumed COVID-19 nursing home deaths and one (1) COVID-19 adult care facility death thru December 30th.
Fatalities in Westchester: 1,809
Numbers of persons tested: 1,418,544
Tested positive: 69,661
% Positive results: 4.9%
Persons tested today: 12,987
New positives today: 959