STATE OF THE PLAGUE DEC 30 NUMBERS: : NEW WESTCHESTER POSITIVES DROP 50% FROM 7,659 TO 3,307. MID-HUDSON REGION 7 COUNTY POSITIVES FALL 62% TO 6,851. LONG ISLAND POSITIVES PLUNGE 58% TO 11,958 DECEMBER 30. NYC REPORTED 35,650 POSITIVES, DOWN 57% TO 35,650. | WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER 3,826,065 VISITS IN ONE YEAR---73,578 VISITS A WEEK BY 1,111,506 VISITORS

**John Bailey’s CovidStoppers Logbook, January 3, 2022.**

WPCNR STATE OF THE PLAGUE. FROM NYS COVID TRACKER. ANALYSIS By John F. Bailey. January 3, 2021.

This afternoon will deliver a better fix on whether the shock of 7,000 new positives a day in Westchester County is over when the positives for Friday are reported.

The December 30 positive numbers issued Sunday night indicate a drop of 50% or more for Westchester, the 6 other Mid-Hudson Counties, and the runway leaders in infections Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The onslaught of new positives the first 5 days of the last week of 2021 was the highest positives a week ever during the plague. The across-board-the halfing of positives was a welcome respite in the march of covid across the metropolitan area.

New York City’s five boroughs recorded 47, 346 LESS infections than the day before December 29 when the city recorded 82,996.

If Westchester continues on the 3,000 infections a day trend it will have slightly less than 20,000 infections the last week of 2021. If positives continue declining on new Covid-19 Tracker reports the next week this will be an indicator that predictions of a covid fade in two weeks will be happening.