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WEEK BEGINS WITH LOWEST SUNDAY POSITIVES IN WESTCHESTER IN 4 WEEKS.
WPCNR CORONA SURVEILLANCE. Statistics from NYS Covid Tracker. Observation and Analysis by John F. Bailey. February 22, 2023:
Lab verified test totals continue to show persons going for lab tests that confirm they are not positive continues to lower. Totals on First day of the week the first 4 Sundays in February have been 132, 62,59 and 54, reflecting the very positive slowdown in midweek rises in infections Tuesday through Fridays, a very encouraging trend.
Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday Friday positives in February have lowered from an average of 164 February 1 to 3, to 108 Tuesday through Friday February 14 through 17. That is a drop of 34%
Persons opting for lab test confirmations of possible home positives, if that is the reason they are testing, are apparently not positive for covid in greater proportions.
With more persons vaccinating, yet socializing accelerating, it shows vaccinations help.
Last week’s covid logbook demonstrating the lowering of midweek positives over the last 4 weeks (back to March 29).
WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL COVID CASES RUN 42% OF ADMISSIONS 1ST 2 WEEKS OF FEB
WPCNR COVID SURVEILLANCE. From NYS Covid Tracker & NY Hospitalization Reports. Observation & Analysis by John F. Bailey.
Westchester County recorded 642 cases of new persons testing positive for covid last week Sunday.
From February 12 through Saturday, February 18, it was the lowest number of cases in a week so far in the new year, the 9th straight week that cases have declined since the last week in December.
The county averaged 92 lab verified cases a day last week, slightly ahead of the average 7.2 daily cases a day per 100,000 population. Westchester population is 1,004,000 which works out to 10.04 100,000 segments. The daily average of 7.2 x 10.04 for Westchester indicates 72 daily infections a day , which works out to an average 2,020 case a month.
The 642 cases for the county last week shows that the county may be infecting at a pace slightly more than the 7.2 daily average indicates and could reach 2,400 cases in the month.
A concern locally is the number of new cases admitted to White Plains Hospital in the last two weeks has declined since February began but is still showing 40% of newly admitted patients are testing positive for covid according to New York Hospitalizations records through February 14.
The figures:
In January 2023 White Plains Hospital reported 840 Patients admitted and 510 were found treated for Covid 60% of admissions.
From February 1 to February 14, 224 admissions to White Plains Hospital reported 93 were positive for covid. The number admissions found to have covid after arrival had tested positive a percentage of 42%.
The Mid Hudson Region as of last Thursday, showed hospitalizations in the 7 counties in the region: Westchester, Rockland, Range Putnam, Dutchess Ulster and Sullivan Counties reported 244 persons admitted and 84 found to be positive with covid after admission a percentage of 34.4%.
On Long Island, Nassau and Suffolk Counties reported 313 admissions, 144 found to have covid or 46%
In the five boroughs of New York City, there were 816 admissions with 328 found after admission to have covid, 40.2%
An observation, if I may, if the numbers of positives indicated by the weekly daily rate is running ahead of the positive case reporting figures, confidence in how covid cases are appearing to decline with numbers publish, but by conservative presentation of daily numbers (broken down by 100,000 population segments, the numbers do not appear to give Mr. and Mrs. New York the true picture of the pace of disease slow decline, and are running behind actual positives inreal time.
FEBRUARYWhite Plains Hospital Center Admissions and Number of whom found to have CovidTHE JANUARY 2023 WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS AND COVID PORTION
It is imperative the numbers be presented in crystal clear, comprehensive format to give the public the true picture of their risks of getting covid, which is a disease that lingers once you get it and comes back an back and back. You do not want to get it.
Here is how the week in covid looked ended February 18 region by region on hospitalizations for Covid
Here is how the Mid-Hudson Region did on covid infections : Saturday
Westchester and the Mid Hud Region and Long Islandhave 70%of the cases New York City has when the 9 counties have 40% of NYC’s population. The trend of Westchester out-infecting NYC has been consistent for the last year.\
Some takeaway from this chart is the lowering infection rates on Long Island which has been notorious for new cases for the last three years. Infection rates in the Mid Hudson region are consistently above the 1:1 target (1 person infecting less than 1 other person Westchester infection percentage continues uncomfortably high at 5% of those tested, given that the Westchester testing activity is so low, 1,283 tests a day. If Westchester tested 5,000 a day, infections could be 250 a day (1,750 a week). (Since the county no stopped publishing its map of a county infections chart there is no way the public can see infections by town and city.)
The number are going up slightly on Tuesdays and and Thursdays but now significantly enough to decrease the weekly decline trend.
WPCNR MILESTONES. Reprinted from the WPCNR ARCHIVES. February 20, 2022:
Wednesday, February 22 is George Washington’s Birthday.
The time when we remember the first leader and the best. It is instructive to look at our first leader, George Washington, the father of our nation — America — that used to be.
One cannot help be reminded of the snowy winter at Valley Forge, when the bedraggled, poorly equipped rebel army suffered but held together, and attacked the Hessians in Trenton on Christmas Eve, 1776, crossing the Delaware River at night. What kind of man was he that George Washington could inspire his troops against all odds?
Washington was a man of tremendous character. Of principle.
Where did he get this character?
He specialized in self-control at an early age. That congressmen, lobbyists, and pundits and yes, Presidents, means mind-control, reason and responsibility, and humanity.
According to the book, The American President, Washington, at sixteen, had formed a code of conduct. He had written a book of etiquette with 110 “maxims” to guide his conduct in matters. In this etiquette book he had written:
Every action done in company ought to be done with a sign of respect to those who are not present. Sleep not when others speak; sit not when others stand; speak not when you should hold your peace; walk not when others stop;…Let your countenance be pleasant but in serious matters somewhat grave…Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.
The character sketch provided by the authors of The American President, indicates this personal “rulebook” was a book that Washington wrote over the years and referred to it often, for, they write, for the following reasons:
“for self-control, to avoid temptation, to elude greed, to control his temper. Reputation was everything to him. It had to do with his strength, his size, his courage, his horsemanship, his precise dress, his thorough mind, his manners, his compassion. He protected that reputation at any cost.”
Earning respect by example. Quelling rebellion with a few words.
He sets an example today for those who would take advantage of America’s weakness and seize power by opportunism.
Washington inspired by example.
John Vorperian with “George Washington” at Purdy House where General Washington stayed during the Battle of White Plains.
He lived with his troops. He shared hardships with them, and there was so much respect for him that he was able to talk them out of armed rebellion at the end of the American Revolution.
Washington had been asked by the army to join them to overthrow the Continental Congress, and make himself King.
Washington had been asked by one of the officers of the rebels to join them, and he wrote them,
You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Banish these thoughts from your mind.
Hearing that the rebels who were planning insurrection against the new country due to not having been paid by the Continental Congress, Washington rode to Newburgh, New York, (not far from White Plains, NY,USA) on March 15, 1783, to meet with the dissident insurgents. Washington spoke to the rebellious group, saying,
“Gentlemen, as I was among the first who embarked in the cause of our common Country; as I never left your side one moment, but when called from you on public duty; as I have been the constant companion and witness of your Distresses…it can scarcely be supposed …that I am indifferent to your interests. But…this dreadful alternative, of either deserting our Country in the extremest hour of her distress, or turning our Arms against it…has something so shocking in it that humanity revolts from the idea…I spurn it, as every Man who regards liberty…undoubtedly must.”
The would-be rebels fell silent, digesting what he had said. Then Washington withdrew a letter from Congress, but could not read the text, withdrawing some eyeglasses from his tunic, remarking,
“Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country.”
The men present were reported to have tears in their eyes at this gesture of Washington’s and abandoned their plot out of respect for their leader.
Washington retired from the military, surprising the entire new country.
His action surprised King George III of England, who was astonished that Washington had refused to hold on to his military authority and use it for political or financial gain.
The defeated King of England, remarked, “If true, then he is the greatest man in the world.”
Seeker of Diverse Views. How to pick a cabinet.
As President, George Washington invented the Presidential Cabinet, whom he referred to as “the first Characters,” persons who possessed the best reputations in fields and areas of the jobs he was filling.
Washington said on political appointments:
“My political conduct and nominations must be exceedingly circumspect. No slip into partiality will pass unnoticed…”
Washington tolerated the relentless clashes between Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, and Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, but lectured them on the necessity for tolerance and moving beyond partisanship:
“I believe the view of both of you are pure, and well meant. Why then, when some of the best Citizens in the United States, Men…who have no sinister view to promote, are to be found, some on one side, some on the other…should either of you be so tenacious of your opinions as to make no allowances for those of the other? I have great esteem for you both, and ardently wish that some line could be marked out by which both of you could walk.”
The Constitution Should be Protected
When George Washington left office after two terms, he made a farewell address which warned future generations of Americans about foreign entanglements and partisanship in the republic:
I shall carry to my grave the hope that your Union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the Constitution may be sacredly maintained; and that free government…the ever favorite object of my heart…will be the happy reward of our mutual cares, labors and dangers.”
Washington died in 1800, three years after leaving office in 1797. He was saluted on the floor of congress as being
“First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
He was the first and best. The ultimate role model for any leader, February 22, 2023 is a day that tries Americans’ souls.
It is hoped that some of our “leaders” in Westchester, in Albany, in Washington might read the words I have quoted above and take them to heart in future deliberations. Work a little. It’s not all about you. It’s about doing what is best for us all.
George Washington’s vision of his country is being challenged by those who know not what they do.
But we who remember, and read these words must refocus.
1. Leave the water on the site. 2. TankTruck it Out. 3.Drain it Into Hudson River.
WPCNR THE POWER STORY. By John F. Bailey February 18, 2023 updated with audio of County Executive Latimer and Dr. Gunderson 1:35 P.M EST:
Holec Inrternational, the worldwide company specializing in decommissioning nuclear and other facilities, current owner of Indian Point has applied to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation for a permit to drain the one million gallons Indian Point radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River. The DEC is now reviewing that permit.
Thursday afternoon in a zoomed webinar the Safe Energy Rights Group and a host of environmental organizations presented three nuclear and health experts to discuss “the health and safety” of removing the water from the cooling pools.
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Westchester County Executive George Latimer began with thanking the sponsors and said we should “follow the science,” in determining what to do with the waste water remaining on the site because of the unknown impact the water will have on the county residents of over one million people. His tone was strongly implying the water should not be discharged into the sound.
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Dr. Arnie Gunderson, Chief Engineer at Fairway Associates, a nuclear engineer who has been making the public aware it is impossible to remove tritium, the major danger to the public in radioactive wastewater, said based on the experience of the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee, there were three solutions: 1. Discharge the water into the river which he opposes, but is favored by Holec because it is the least expensive remediation; 2. Truck the water to storage facilities in another state (more expensive) and 3. (The solution he thinks is best) Leave the water in its pools on the Indian Point Site.
He advised the Tritium isotope found in the wastewater can infect the air surrounding the plant and the shores of the Hudson River (if discharged into the river.) He said it would take 50 years before half the tritium isotope pollutant would disappear from the (Hudson River) waters if the million gallons of water were discharged.
In the meantime the tritium could evaporate from the water and condense and cover grounds in Westchester County. He emphasized that an industry saying of the past, “dilution is the solution to pollution” was not true because the tritium (accumulated for years in the pools at Indian Point would take 120 years to decay
Dr. Kathleen Nolan, a pediatrician, President of Physicians for Social Responsibility of New York concentrated on the point that radiation (and tritium) is known to cause cancer in children
. She raised the spectre of possible unexpected consequences – that with PCB’s in the Hudson, the tritium may interact with them. Sne characterized the intended discharging of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson as “creating pollution” (to solve pollution).
Mary Olson characterized tritium as a “bad actor” which, because when is exposed to the human body, it throws off betas that penetrate the human body. Ms. Olson’s study in 2011 on comparing geognder cancer rates when she was a staff biologist for Nuclear Information and Resource Service, showing more women were getting cancer from radiation than men.
She encouraged more research on why biokogical sex is a factor in radiation harm. In her presentation she pointed out how tritium when it enters the body of a pregnant woman can connect with elements in the body and concentrate radiation especially in womb of a woman who is pregnant and cause developmental defects in the the fetus at its early stages of development.
No representatives from the decommissioning company, Holtec International spoke.
Two hour program ended with an exhortation by Dr.Courtney Williams, the moderator to contact representatives across the state to alert them to the issue.
THE JUDGE LaSALLE MATTERDEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION MULLS REQUEST TO ALLOW DISCHARGE OF VERY RADIOACTIVE FUELING POOLS WATER INTO THE HUDSON. COUNTY EXECUTIVE VERY CONCERNEDSCIENTISTS DETAIL THE DANGERS OF THE TRIDIUM ISOTOPE IN THE “HOT” WATER FROM INDIAN POINTTWO AUDIO CLIPS FROM GEORGE LATIMER AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERTHE COVID WALK-INS KEEP ON COMING IN TO MID-HUDSON VALLEY, LONG ISLAND NYC HOSPITALS 40% NEW ADMISSIONS HAVE COVID. DAILY POSITIVES OF NEW COVID REPORTED LAG BEHIND NUMBER OF WEEKLY CASE DAILY RATENEW YORK POWER AUTHORITY NOW HAS CONTROL OF BUILDING ALL NEW POWER PLANTS (IF NEEDED) IN THE STATETHE NEW WHITE PLAINS DMV OPENS — FAST, EFFICIENT, SPACIOUS — WPCNR TELLS YOU HOW TO FIND ITWHITE PLAINS SCHOOLS POWER UP INSTRUCTION — WITHOUT INCREASING THE BUDGETJOHN BAILEY AND THE NEWS
WPCNR ALBANY ROUNDS. State Senator Kristen Gonzalez (SD-59 Brooklyn,Queens) has issued the following statement on the significance of the Build Public Renewals Act.February 16, 2023:
“Yesterday, the New York state Senate took decisive action on climate justice by passing the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA). This legislation will transform the energy sector in New York by allowing the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to own and build new energy-generating projects, which they cannot currently do.
The BPRA requires NYPA to be the sole electricity provider for all state and municipal buildings and mandates that NYPA provide 100 percent renewable energy by 2030. These provisions are essential in ensuring New York meets its goals set out by the CLCPA.
For low-income New Yorkers struggling with exorbitant energy costs, NYPA would be authorized to sell energy at a price 50 percent below what private utilities charge.
My constituents sent me to Albany with a mandate to deliver on climate justice. District 59 is a waterfront district home to generations of New Yorkers who have suffered at the hands of fossil fuel companies.
My district produces a significant portion of New York City’s energy and contains what is known as “asthma alley” in Astoria. In addition, my district is home to Newtown creek, the site of the largest underground oil spill in the country, which generations of Greenpointers have had to live with the consequences of.
For years, neighbors in my district have been fighting back. Mere blocks from our district, the community has been organizing against the North Brooklyn Pipeline.
Over the last few years, neighbors in Astoria and Stuyvesant Town have organized and defeated proposed new power plants.
District 59 is demanding that we transition our energy sector off fossil fuels. The BPRA takes important steps to accomplish that transition, while simultaneously creating good green jobs with strong labor protections.
I want to thank the advocates who have been relentless in demanding Albany pass this bill, and I want to thank my colleagues for their hard work to get us to this point.
WPCNR ALBANY ROUNDS, From State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins. February 15, 2023:
“Today, the Senate Majority will once again rise to our leadership responsibilities and end the ongoing distraction of the Justice Hector LaSalle nomination.
We maintain that the Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote on Justice LaSalle’s nomination was a faithful execution of the judicial nomination procedure. The Senate acted constitutionally by following our own set of rules, which as a separate branch of government, we are empowered to create and follow under the State Constitution.
Despite being in accordance with our State laws, the outcome of that Judiciary hearing has not been accepted by all members of government. The recent court case brought by Republican Senators proves that prolonging the LaSalle nomination – which never had the requisite votes to pass – is merely a wedge issue to distract us from other pressing matters at hand. We have a state to run.
The 2023-2024 $227 billion dollar budget is due in six weeks. Our highest court has no appointed Chief Judge, and we need the court system to function. This court case, if allowed to continue, would’ve dragged on for months and stymied our judicial system. It’s time to put this matter to rest.”
(Editor’s Note: Previously the Senate Majority leader lead the Senate to vote to add three Democratic Senators not in favor of Judge LaSalle, (Chief Judge of the Appellate Court of Appeals) as Court of Appeals Chief Justice who would have been approved by the Republicans on the 16-member Judiciary Committee, had not State Senate Majority Leader added three more judges to the committee. The Committee vote not to approve Judge LaSalle, was 10-9, with the three Democratic Senators added all voting to reject Judge LaSalle.
Politco quoted Governor Kathy Hochul on the circumstances of the rejection of Judge LaSalle in the State Senate Judiciary Committee: “While this was a thorough hearing, it was not a fair one, because the outcome was predetermined. Several senators stated how they were going to vote before the hearing even began — including those who were recently given seats on the newly expanded Judiciary Committee. While the Committee plays a role, we believe the Constitution requires action by the full Senate.”)
. In order to get in the mood for love, dispel the myths and fiction notions about love, I have compiled a list of songs written over the years from ragtime to swing to the rock and roll era.
Those who have never been in love yet can use as guidelines to judge whether they have a real love going, and not merely the mock.
What is so true though is a vast majority of the songs are sad, remembering a love of the past and an when the breakup it happens, the feeling they convey is so true to the lyrics. I have included some lyrics that each song, other than instrumentals, to stir your memory.
Those of you not still in love or who miss it, and play these songs for memories and faith in the future that another will come along because they miss it. I have probably forgotten yours. Feel free to write me and suggest other songs I have left out.
The best observers — authorities on what love feels like are the songwriters–poets with melody. They write the feelings their minds and bodies and yes, their heart, as
“down and down they go like a leaf that’s caught in the tide. That Old Black Magic you weave so well”
John Bailey’s 100 Love Songs of All Time
You Belong to Me
(Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane)
You Made Me Love You
(I didn’t Want to Do it)
Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby
(I was your Pretty, You were My Baby)
In the Still of the Night
(I Remember)
Sleepwalk
Blueberry Hill
(I Found My Thrill)
The Great Pretender
(Pretending You’re Still Around)
Autumn Leaves
(That’s When I Miss You Most of All)
Walkin After Midnight
(Along the highway hopin’ I’d get a glance at you)
My Heart Stood Still
(Though not a single word was spoken, I could tell you knew That unfelt clasp of hands told me so well that you knew I never lived at all until the thrill of that moment When my heart stood still.)
You Go to My Head
(With a smile that makes my temperature rise Like a summer with a thousand Julys You intoxicate my soul with your eyes)
Red River Valley
(They Say You Are Going)
I want to be A Cowboy’s Sweetheart
(I Want to Rope and Ride Across the Great Divide)
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin’
(Wait Along, Wait Along)
Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
(Far Over the Sea)
Kiss and Say Goodbye
(I wanna remember you just like this…)
Begin the Beguine
(It Brings Back a Night of Tropical Splendor)
Come Dance With Me
(Come on Cutes, Put on Your Dancing Boots and Dance with Me)
Dancing in the Dark
(We Can Face the Music Together)
Love Is Strange
(Without it you’re in awful fix.
Once you’ve had it you never want to quit)
Under the Boardwalk
(Down by the sea)
One Night With You
( Always Lived in the Twilight..)
Treat Me Nice
(Don’t Kiss Me Once, Kiss Me Twice)
Night and Day
(You are the one)
I Get a Kick Out of You
(I Suddenly Turn and See…Your Fabulous Face)
One for My Baby and One More for the Road
(Set em up, Joe)
You’re the Top
(You’re the Coliseum, You’re the Louvre Museum)
Too Close for Comfort
(Now)
Cheek to Cheek
(Nothing Thrills Me Half as Much as Dancing Cheek to Cheek)
Nothing in Common
(It’s a Phenomenon!)
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
Same Old Song and Dance
Something’s Gotta Give
What’s New?
(You haven’t changed a bit Lovely as ever, I must admit)
You Took Advantage of Me
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
(Deep in the Heart of Me)
That Old Feeling
(I felt a thrill when you caught my eye, my heart stood still)
Let the Good Times Roll
(Feel so good now you’re home)
You’ve Got What it Takes
( to set my soul on fire)
You Keep Coming Back Like a Song
(The sweet used-to-be That was once you and me
Keeps coming back like an old melody)
Always
(I’ll be loving you always)
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own
(I’ve Tried forgetting you..)
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
(Everybody’s somebody’s plaything)
Donna
(Where can you be?)
The Carnival Is Over
(I will love you til I die)
Just Walkin’ in the Rain
(All because my heart can’t forget)
She Wears Red Feathers in a Hula Hula Skirt
The Last Dance
(Save me the first dance in your dreams)
Hey There
(You with the Stars in Your Eyes)
Everybody Loves a Lover
(I’m a Lover, Everybody Loves Me)
He’s So Fine
( He’s gonna me mine, Sooner or Later, I hope it’s not later)
Rock and Roll Waltz
(Trying to Waltz to a Rock and Roll Song)
Hey Little Girl in the High School Sweater
(Can I come along? Carry your books and hold your arm?)
All of Me
(Why Not Take?)
Racing with the Moon
(Till I Overtake the Moon and You)
So Fine
(My Baby is so Fine, Sends Those Chills Up and Down My Spine)
Chances Are
(Your chances are very Good)
Misty
(And Too Much in Love)
Thanks for the Memory
( Of faults that you forgave, rainbows on a wave…Thank you so Much)
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
(A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day Just like the strain Of a haunting refrain)
(You set my soul on fire, and I’ve Really Had my Fun)
I Only Have Eyes for You
Just for a Thrill
(You're still the only one Cause you made my heart stand still)
Stardust
(Of love’s sweet refrain)
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
(When a lovely flame dies)
Blues In the Night
(A two-face, a worrisome thing
Who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night)
Love Letters In the Sand
(You laughed when I cried when the tide
would take our Love Letters from the Sand)
88. Born To Be With You
(By your Side)
89. I Can’t Stop Loving You
(I’ve made up my mind to Live in Memory)
90. First Name Initial
(It Makes it Official)
91. When A Man Loves A Woman
(Can’t Keep His Mind on Anything Else)
92. Ci Ci Rider
(The Moon Is Shining Bright
If I Could Just Walk with You
Everything would Be All right)
93. Eddie My Love
(Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long-Ong-Ong)
94 .Wonderland By Night
95. In the Mood
96. Moonlight Serenade
97. Young Blood
(I Can’t Get You off of My Mind)
98. Memories Are made of This
99. Once Upon A Time
(A Girl with Moonlight in Her Eyes Told Me
She Loved Me So, But that Was Once Upon a Time Very Long Ago)
100. VAYA CON DIOS
(My Love, May God Be With You til we meet again)The list of the greatest love songs continues. I know some of the Love Hits of all time are from my era, some from the 40s 30s and the 20s.
Some by the great songwriters, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Lieber & Stroller, Paul Anka, Glenn Miller. Hoagy Carmichael, but love songs are how we first learn about love is, how it feels to be in love.
No matter how much we might scoff at love, when it hits you and when love walks in and sweeps you off your feet, and takes you for a spin, you know thanks to these songs.
What are some of the songs I have forgotten? What are your favorites? Drop me a line at wpcnr@aol.com with yours.
Have a Happy Valentines Day.
Don't forget the dozen red roses and to look into your Valentine's eyes.
MEANWHILE MID-HUDSON REGION, LONG ISLAND, 5 NYC BOROUGHS HAVE 1/3 AND HIGHER HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS BEING ADMITTED FOR COVID.
WPCNR CORONA VIRUS SURVEILLANCE.Statistics from Governor Kathy Hochul Press Office. Friday Report. February 12, 2023:
The New York State Acting Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald officially ended the requirement to wear masks in hospitals and health care facilities Friday across the state, Friday The New York Times reported this morning quoting the Acting Commissioner as saying: “The pandemic is not over, yet we are moving to a transition.”
The relaxing of mask requirements now leaves the decision to the health facilities if they wish staff and public to wear masks visiting or working in the facility.
In New York City its Public Hospitals would continue to require masks to be worn on their premises The Times reported would still require New York City Friday reported of its 904 patients hospitalized 356 (39%z0 of its 904 hospitlized were being treated due to covid or complications of covid.
HOSPITALIZATIONS ACROSS NY STATE AS OF THURSDAY: 928 PERSONS (42%) OF TOTAL 2,176 HOSPITALIZED IN THE STATE, ARE ADMITTED DUE TO COVID.
In the Mid-Hudson region, consisting of Westchester, Orange, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster and Sullivan Counties hospitals report of 241 current admissions Friday, 93 were admitted for Covid or covid complications (39%)
Nassau and Suffolk Counties 158 admissions for treat of covid and complications are running 53% of Long Island 300 total admissions.
The Times reporter Lola Fadulu wrote this morning advocacy groups for persons with disabilities are urging Governor Hochul to reverse the dropping of masking requirements in nursing homes, homes for the disabled and homes for older people. A letter from the group urged, The Times quoting the letter , said the state decision “put disabled people, older people, and everyone else at greater risk from this often-deadly disease.”
