5 New COVID-19 Positives in Rye; 2,246 Deaths in Westchester – Monday, April 19, 2021

Remember that Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer moved his COVID-19 briefings from daily to now twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays. So no briefing on the other weekdays, but we do expect to continue to post daily COVID-19 counts for Rye and Westchester County for the foreseeable future.

For Monday, April 19, 2021, Westchester reported the following City of Rye numbers via the County COVID dashboard.

1,398 total COVID-19 cases since inception;
49 active COVID-19 cases (this assumes the remaining 1,349 have run the average two week contagion cycle and are no longer active);
5 new COVID-19 cases

Latimer said 32% of Westchester residents are fully vaccinated and an additional 14% have received the first vaccine of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.

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 reopening.

The COVID-19 numbers:

Fatalities of Westchester residents: 2,246
Fatalities at Westchester nursing homes – The Osborn Home in Rye is reporting eight (8) confirmed COVID-19 nursing home deaths, two (2) COVID Confirmed Out of Facility Deaths of NH Residents (Hospital-Other), six (6) presumed COVID-19 nursing home deaths and one (1) COVID Confirmed Deaths at ALF (assisted living facility) and four (4) COVID Confirmed Out of Facility Deaths of ALF Residents (Hospital-Other) thru April 17th.
Fatalities in Westchester: 2,424
Numbers of persons tested: 2,591,176
Tested positive: 125,913
% Positive results: 4.9%
Persons tested today: 6,294
New positives today: 187