DECEMBER 14–STATE OF HEALTH WESTCHESTER PART 5–COVID UNDER CONTROL. CASES DOWN 1/3 FROM A YEAR AGO STABLE DECEMBER EXPECTED ON ALL DISEASES OUT THERE | WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER 3,826,065 VISITS IN ONE YEAR---73,578 VISITS A WEEK BY 1,111,506 VISITORS

HOSPITALIZATIONS ADMITTED AT WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL IN NOVEMBER ONLY 21% FOUND WITH COVID. DECLINES FROM 53% IN SEPTEMBER TO 21%

WPCNR STATE OF HEATH, WESTCHESTER PART 5. Observation and Analysis By John F. Bailey November-December:

Westchester County residents have gotten covid, flu and RSVs under control, with only 21% of 76 patients, 16 patients admitted having testing positive for covid hospitalizations at White Plains Hospital the month of November.

The 21% drop in covid cases discovered after hospital admission is a 2/3 drop from to 36% of patients admitted found to have Covid in October (37 of 97), and from 53% of patients admitted TO White Plains Hospital testing positive in September, (51 of 96).

This is a testimony to our residents who got vaccinated up to date or with the boosters they did not have, and for the tedious need to be tough and do socially responsible socializing. Parents seeing their children get up to date with vaccines or kept them home if they showed symptoms, as the Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Ricca reported on “People to Be Heard” last week about a quiet rate of children being sent to school with disease, and he complimented parents for making the low incidence of children coming to school sick.

In the Mid-Hudson Region, hospitalizations are also down at the end of November from October 31. As of the end of November, 44 hospitalizations as of November 27 compared to 61 October 31.

This is a stride forward for the Mid-Hudson region.

In Westchester County, there were 724 new cases of covid for the month November 1 to 30, down from the 3,356 cases in November 2023 which produced 12,000 cases of Covid last December. That will not happen this December thanks to a combination of people getting boosters or catching up with the shots they needed and being responsible.

The new case rate in the county averaged 24 a day ,down from 35 a day in October.

The covid of today is still creating fast infections.

In 4 of the Mondays in November, covid infections averaged 45 new cases with drops to 30 cases on Tuesdays and Wednesdays confirming the cases show up within 2 to 3 days of the weekend.

At the current one person spreading to 1 person, December could see 1,500 covid cases in December unless the holidays punch up the infection rate.

Good job, as Coach Ted O’Donnell used to say.