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WPCNR CORONAVIRUS REPORT. January 2, 2020 UPDATED JANUARY 3, 12 NOON EST:
Westchester County daily new positive infections numbered 1,013 on New Year’s Day.
This figure approaches the 1,100 positive cases of April 9 within 200 cases of the highest level of infections reached March 25, 2020 of the horrifying sweep of the first surge of the disease.
The hightest number of positive covid cases in Westchester County all of 2020 was 1,300 on March 25 2020 just after New York State shut down.
With the positives going up inexorably the month of December, and the evidence of higher infections within the possible infection period, with the New Years week of gatherings across the county still not over, the infections may continue at this higher rate for another two weeks.
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, speaking on Meet the Press said today January 3: “Rather than sit back and throw up our hands and say, ‘oh my goodness, it’s getting worse,’ we need to double down on some of the fundamental things that we talk about all the time — the uniform wearing of masks, the physical distancing and the avoiding of congregate settings and crowds, particularly indoors”
The total number of active cases in Westchester County as of Friday is 9,208, with 870 of those new cases new according to the Westchester County Dashboard today. It should be noted that those cases are not necessarily those that were discovered to be infected yesterday.