200 COVID-19 Positives in Rye; 1,374 Westchester Resident Deaths – Monday, June 1, 2020
(PHOTO: Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer during his June 1, 2020 press briefing on COVID-19. Rye resident and Westchester County Legislator Catherine Parker is on the far left.)
For Monday, Westchester reported the following City of Rye numbers:
200 total COVID-19 cases since inception;
1 active COVID-19 cases (this assumes the remaining 199 have run the average two week contagion cycle and are no longer active);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 the Michaelian Office Building in White Plains. He was joined by members of the newly formed task-force charged with advancing the goals of Westchester businesses as re-opening continues.
The business re-opening task force “Open Westchester” will be co-chaired by restaurateur Louie Lanza and Rye resident and Westchester County Legislator Catherine Parker. Parker ended her congressional bid for NY-17 only Friday. Before politics, Parker had a long run as the small business owner of Parker’s travel store on Purchase Street from 1996 until its closing in 2018. Rabbi Daniel Gropper of Rye’s Community Synagogue is one of the members of the task force.
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: 1,374
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 30th (that’s no new confirmed deaths since the prior update). There is no data from Rye Manor or Vienna Senior Housing.)
Fatalities in Westchester: 1,501
Numbers of persons tested: 161,908
Tested positive: 33,552
% Positive results: 20.7%
Persons tested today: 3,376
New positives today: 71
