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WPCNR CORONAVIRUS BULLETIN. From New York Covid-19 Tracker, Westchester Tracker with Commentary by John F. Bailey August 15, 2021
INFECTIONS BY AREA OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY THROUGH SATURDAY
The August 14, Saturday figures broken down by the Westchester County Covid Tracker show 12 cities and towns that are back to leading the mounting spread of covid new cases in the last 15 days because of their population and the behavior of the leaderships of the individual town that have acted on their own to enforce (OR NOT)measures that could limit infections.
But inaction in the spread of Covid is not unusual, not since the beginning of Covid in 2020 has any Westchester city but New Rochelle been declared a hot spot. I also believe Mount Vernon was. But there are now plenty.of hot spots to choose from to start controlling the plus 200 new infections the county is running a day.
This isseriousspreading of corona virusin Westchester County.
Neither the state or the county has been able to quantify how many new cases daily are Covid-19 or the insidiously infectious Delta Varient of Covid.
Southern Part of County–Where the most infections are
This is the Infection Leader Board for the last two weeks ending August 15 in Westchester County:
Yonkers through Saturday is reported the leader in Active Covid Cases with 568 new cases averaging 50 new cases a day.
New Rochelle is second with 214 new active cases averaging 19 new a day, with Mount Vernon third with 193 new cases and 27 infections daily.
White Plains has 114 active cases averaging 13 a day. That means close to 100 a week which will mean 700 new cases in White plains just when school starts. (One coronavirus infected person spreads the disease to 7 other person BEFORE they are tested or come down with symptoms, according to the Johns Hopkins formula for figuring how the covid epidemic spreads.)
North County growing big time too
The Northern part of the county is also experiencing exponential growth. Yorktown is tied with White Plains for fourth in number cases the last two weeks.
Greenburgh is 5th in the county with 102 new cases 11 daily a day
Rye City and Rye Brook combined have 91 active cases in 6th place among areas growing fastest.
Cortlandt, another north county area is right behind, 7th with 86 active cases.
Eighth is Mount Pleasant with 85 Actives.
In 9th are the Tarrytowns (Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow) with 65 new active cases.
WPCNR CORONAVIRUS MONITOR.From the NY Workbook Covid-19 Tracker with comment by John F. Bailey.:
The New York Workbook Covid-Tracker reported a slow down in covid postives the last three days Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, reporting 228 infections Wednesday, a 2.9% infection rate of 7,779 Tests conducted Wednesday; a total of 202 new covid infections Thursday (2.8 % infections of 7,313 tested in the county, and on Friday the number of new infections dropped below 200 new persons infected a day with 186 testing positive (2.4% of 7,630 tested).
The three combined daily totals for August 11, 12 and 13 reflect the new infections though slowly slowing at 616 cases the last three days, which could mean in 14 days 4,312 new infections in Westchester in addition to the potential 8.407 new cases theat may result from the 1,201 infections from Wednesday August 4 to Wednesday August 11.
Westchester will be dealing with 12,700 new cases by September 1 as school and holidays open up if the predicted County spread rate per new infectee turns out to be correct
WPCNR CORONAVIRUS BULLETIN. News and CommentFrom New York State Covid Tracker.By John F. Bailey August 12, 2021:
Yesterday Westchester County tested 7,779 residents for Covid and saw new infections climb from 215 Tuesday to 228 yesterday.
The infection rate yesterday declined which is a false positive, because the tested number was higher, but at this rate, the infections the last 7 days from August 4 through yesterday August 11 will create a super spreader disaster Labor Day Week.
Here’s the math.
In 14 days (approximately August 25 just a week before the next big summer weekend and subsequent religious holidays), the 1,420 new infections during the last week, each will infect 7 others or have already been infecting others up until the day they tested positive.
This new Delta variant and covid-19 combination 1-2 Covid wave created by the “it’s over” attitude of the July 4th weekend is turning into a viral tsunami.
That’s what the exponential numbers of spread dynamics tells me.
Hitting a consistent over 200 new infections each day the 228 tested positive yesterday will pass the variant or the covid 19 to 7 other persons. By August 25—14 days 1,596 new infections could appear from the contacts made by the 228 August 11 positives alone for covid until yesterday.
If you take into account all 1,420 new infections in Westchester the last 7 days aggregate of them could produce 10,000 new infections by August 25 to September 1. They will have without knowing it already will have spread disease wherever they have gone or whomever they were with—brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents, friends, acquaintances for two weeks not knowing they themselves were sick and carriers of this deadly of all plagues ever.
The decisions as to what to do have to made now.
The decisions about safe opening of schools have to be made now as New Jersey’s Governor did Monday.
New York’s Health Commissioner has said it is up to the schools how they open: No oversight, no analysis by the state
The decisions cannot be what people want or consider convenient or “normal.”
The decisions cannot be decided in general consensus in town meetings, town halls or listening opportunities to gather what people think we should do.
The last time we were spreading infections in Westchester at 10,000 a week or even close to it was on January 1, 2021 when Westchester had 1,000 positives on a New Year’s week.
That takes my breath away.
Because if every positive now out there has interacted with 7 people, what the unfortunate 1,420 will generate the last 7 days may generate 9,996 new positives.
I truly hope I am wrong but that is just the simple, very hard uncompromising math.
WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER.From the Westchester County Department of Communications, August 12, 2021:
As of April 1, 2020 Westchester County had 1,004,457 people living in its borders according to the 2020 Census. The new resident population of 1,004,457 is the highest it has ever been in Westchester County according to Census data.
Westchester County Executive George Latimer said: “I always knew we were a big County, big in culture, big in business, big in life and now also big in population. I want to thank Westchester residents for making Westchester count. No one is fleeing this county – they are coming here to be part of Westchester. This Census news continues a trend of good news for Westchester County. Our economy is thriving, businesses both small and large are growing, crime is down, and our vaccination rate is among the highest in the state.”
Westchester County Population
2010
949,113
2000
923,459
1990
874,866
1980
866,599
An accurate count enables Westchester County to receive billions of dollars in state and federal funding that is allocated based on population, and can be used for our schools, infrastructure, roads, hospitals, fire departments and after school programs. The 2019 Census population estimate was 967,000, well below the 2020 population number.
On April 1, 2019, County Executive Latimer signed an Executive Order and announced the formation of the Westchester County Complete Count Committee to include geographic, ethnic and constituency representatives from many of the traditionally hard to count populations. The Complete Count Committees worked with Census advocates, community-based organizations, local municipal Complete Count committees and college students to get the word out about the importance of a full and complete count for the 2020 Census.
Included in the County’s efforts to promote the 2020 Census was a robust public awareness campaign in both English and in Spanish, which included advertising on billboards, County buses and bus shelters, bookmarks and stickers, and more. Latimer also rolled out a series of seven public service announcements, each one focused on a different target audience for the Census from youth to clergy to business leaders.
The Census portal opened on March 12, 2020 while the County was beginning to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic caused the County to pivot activities and outreach efforts accommodating a lockdown and social distancing.
Commissioner of Planning Norma Drummond said: “The County’s role in the 2020 Census was unprecedented compared to previous Census events. We took hold of this challenge and didn’t leave the work to the Census Bureau and municipalities. Westchester’s success in achieving a higher percentage of self-response was partly due to the work done well in advance of 2020 to ensure the Census Bureau had more accurate addresses to reach out to. The results of the County’s efforts show the hard work paid off.”
Latimer said: “We kicked off a robust awareness campaign a full year before Census was set to begin, establishing a Complete Count Committee that put a great focus on ensuring all sectors of the County are participating. I want to thank Carola Bracco, who chaired the Complete Count Committee, for her dedication and outstanding work. I also want to thank all the County departments who stepped up and helped us get an accurate count of Westchester.”
Westchester Community Foundation awarded the County two grants for a total amount of $100,000 to support the work of the Westchester County Complete Count Committee through the hiring of a coordinator for the Committee. Latimer introduced Heriberto Contreras as the County’s Census Coordinator assisting the County Planning Department. The County thanks Contreras for his work on this important topic.
Additionally the County would like to recognize the following for their work on Census 2020:
Complete Count Committee
Carola Bracco, ChairRobert BaskervilleDonnovan BeckfordSymra BrandonEridania CamachoRev. Dierdra ClarkHon. Terry Clements, County LegislatorCarry CubillosRabbi Eytan HammermanDavid ImamuraDr. Terry KirchnerJirandy MartinezMaria MercadoAvni MustafajJudge Francis NicolaiRich PayneKatelin PennerGhada SalimSojourner SalinasLouis SanchezShary SanchezKim SnyderTyrae Woodson-SamuelsPerla Zuniga Arellano EX-OFFICIOHon. Ken Jenkins, Deputy County ExecutiveNorma Drummond, Commissioner of Planning
WPCNR CORONA VIRUS REPORT, Part II. From video of Judith Persiculli, Commissioner of Health for State of New Jersey. August 12:
While WPCNR was watching the Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey video in the previous story, I stayed to watch the state Health Commissioner, Judith Persiculli report on the impact of the Delta variant of the coronavirus in the last three weeks. This video was recorded on August 6, and by Monday, August 9, it has gotten worse. Ms. Persiculli gives and most chilling profile of who is getting covid, how it is affecting nursing homes, how it spread, and the rapid growth.
WPCNR NEWS AND COMMENT. From New JerseyGovernor Phil Murphy August 12, 2021 updated 11:30 AM EDT:
WPCNR watched Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey conduct a state of coronavirus news conference Monday in which he took on the key issue New York Connecticut and New Jersey have to make very quickly. Right now in New York school districts are on their own in determining policy and politicians (not all) are in doubt as to what school districts should do.
The entire news conference delivered by Governor Murphy on Monday also details how persons who are fully vaccinated fare against combatting the Delta variant now ramping up new cases in New Jersey. He pointed out how persons not vaccinated are the majority of infections. The video below deals with announcement of his schools policy beginning in September. The entire video that I highly recommend viewing may be viewed at
Governor Murphy of New Jersey crystalizes the issue of opening schools in the following video below .
It is only three minutes but contains blunt truth and responsibility in his decision, in view of the inexorable spread of the Delta Variant Coronavirus in New Jersey over the summer, (also being experienced exponentially right now in Westchester County, which exceeds 4 of the 5 boroughs of New York City in the percentage of new cases or coronavirus daily:
