201 COVID-19 Positives in Rye; 1,352 Westchester Resident Deaths – Wednesday, May 27, 2020
(PHOTO: Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer during his May 27, 2020 press briefing on COVID-19, broadcast from outside the Michaelian office building in White Plains.)
For Wednesday, Westchester reported the following City of Rye numbers:
201 total COVID-19 cases since inception;
14 active COVID-19 cases (this assumes the remaining 187 have run the average two week contagion cycle and are no longer active);
0 new COVID-19 cases
Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer delivered his COVID-19 update from outside the Michaelian Office Building in White Plains. Latimer was joined by Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. and leaders from the Westchester Police and the human rights commission to address the two arrests announced earlier Wednesday related to hate crimes in Bronxville.
“Hateful acts of this kind have no place in Westchester County, ever,” County Executive George Latimer said. “But this is particularly a time when we all need to stand together as we face the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.”
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: 1,352
Fatalities at Westchester nursing homes – The Osborn Home in Rye is reporting five (5) confirmed COVID-19 deaths and five (5) presumed COVID-19 deaths thru May 26th (that’s no new confirmed deaths since the prior update). There is no data from Rye Manor or Vienna Senior Housing.)
Fatalities in Westchester: 1,469
Numbers of persons tested: 145,385
Tested positive: 33,186
% Positive results: 22.8%
Persons tested today: 2,207
New positives today: 79
