Latimer Weekly Briefing: (7 New, 12 Active) 283 COVID-19 Positives in Rye; 1,473 Westchester Resident Deaths – Monday, November 2, 2020
(PHOTO: Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer during his November 2, 2020 press briefing.)
For Monday, Westchester reported a seven new COVID cases in Rye. Here are all the City of Rye numbers:
283 total COVID-19 cases since inception;
12 active COVID-19 cases (this assumes the remaining 271 have run the average two week contagion cycle and are no longer active);
7 new COVID-19 cases.
Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer held his weekly COVID-19 briefing on Monday from White Plains. He reminded everyone that “election day is at hand” and encouraged people to doublecheck their polling locations as some have changed. Latimer said that there have been 152,000 people voting early across Westchester and that number is a full 36% of the total number that voted in the last presidential election.
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: 1,473
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 1st (that’s no new confirmed deaths since the prior update). There is no data from Rye Manor or Vienna Senior Housing.)
Fatalities in Westchester: 1,610
Numbers of persons tested: 865,202
Tested positive: 41,061
% Positive results: 4.7%
Persons tested today: 5,095
New positives today: 115
