WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER SETS RECORD VISITS FOR YEAR 7,017,658 VISITS! 2,098,003 VISITORS MADE 6 VISITS A DAY EVERY DAY. 63,330 UNIQUE VISITORS MADE 133,730 VISITS IN DECEMBER. WPCNR AVERAGED 17,284 VISITORS A WEEK, VISITING 31,270 TIMES.

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REDUCE THE HOSPITAL BEDS, PERSONNEL, VENTILATORS NEEDED TO CARE FOR YOU.  APEX TO HIT APRIL 30. 83,712 Cases Overnight, up 7,917 rate of increase: 9 1/2%

WESTCHESTER, ROCKLAND, DUTCHESS, NASSAU SUFFOLK COUNTIES RISING FASTER THAN NEW YORK CITY.

WPCNR CORONAVIRUS REPORT. By John F. Bailey.  April 1, 2020 UPDATED 4:35 E.D.T.:

Governor Andrew Cuomo today made his most urgent plea to date for the public to practice maximum social distancing  to bring down the growth of Coronavirus victims to within New York’s present medical hospital and staff capacity to care for them.

He is closing New York City Playgrounds, because youth are not complying with the non-organized games such as basketball, soccer that accelerate close contact, keeping open space parks for persons to observe social distanced recreation.

He showed an analysis by the Mckinsey organization, showing the dramatic need and tremendous benefit of social distancing and staying at home.  The state current medical ability to care for victims of the corona virus can withstand the rate of the apex of the predicted virus spread if maximum social distancing is practiced by the public, the projections showed the state would need 75,000 hospital beds and 25,000 ventilators, which it now has.

The analysis said that if maximum social distancing is not observed the state would need 35,000 more beds (110,000 hospital beds) and 37,000 ventilators, (12,000 more ventilators).

The governor said that if we cannot maximize social distancing and isolate in our homes as much as possible , the state medical force that is sharing facilities, assigning backup personnel and volunteers at the apex of the disease, “ We do not have a  chance and will be overwhelmed.”

The governor started the news conference by telling the rest of the nation, that the coronavirus plague was spreading to all but one county in the state, invading cities and rural areas.

New York now has 83,712 cases, up 7,917 from yesterday, an increase of 9-1/2%. (slightly less than the 10% yesterday.)

New York City went up by 4,300 cases to 47,439, a 10% increase

Westchester County cases increased by 7.1% overnight to 10,683.,

Nassau County went up 11.8% to 9,554 an increase of 1,010 cases from, 8,544 yesterday

Suffolk County, 892 to 7,605 from 6,713, a grim 13.2% increase in cases.

Rockland County is growing in cases and County Executive Ed Day said today ON NEWS 12, “Stay the Hell home.” Rockland’s cases number 3,331, up 16% overnight and according to County Executive Day this is a medical crisis for the county.

Dutchess County is growing, too, up to 547 cases, but the increase rate is not good–13%. Up from 484 yesterday.

He said that the spread being seen in New York  will come to cities and towns and rural areas throughout the country and urged the states to work with each other to fight the disease together. The Governor noted that New Jersey now has 18,000 cases and New York is working with the Governor of New Jersey to help as the toll of cases rises there.

He said New York deaths were up overnight and an analysis by the Gates Foundation predicts that New York will see 16,000 die statewide. However the nation as a whole, will see 93,000 dead. As to how long New Yorkers (other than essential workers) have to stay in their homes, he said it could to July. But he emphasized no one knows.

He closed with a look to the future that the nation has to learn and change the way this country handles outbreaks, because, the Governor said:

“This will happen again.”

Today’s County-by-County rundown. Local counties in bold

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	240	14
Allegany	9	2
Broome	42	4
Cattaraugus	7	1
Cayuga	3	0
Chautauqua	6	0
Chemung	22	2
Chenango	26	7
Clinton	25	4
Columbia	31	1
Cortland	8	0
Delaware	20	4
Dutchess	547	63
Erie	464	26
Essex	6	2
Franklin	9	0
Fulton	2	1
Genesee	13	3
Greene	18	2
Hamilton	2	0
Herkimer	12	0
Jefferson	12	0
Lewis	2	0
Livingston	14	1
Madison	51	10
Monroe	349	57
Montgomery	7	0
Nassau	9554	1010
Niagara	46	4
NYC	47439	4300
Oneida	50	10
Onondaga	217	23
Ontario	24	2
Orange	1756	200
Orleans	6	0
Oswego	17	2
Otsego	19	1
Putnam	207	21
Rensselaer	43	2
Rockland	3321	458
Saratoga	122	14
Schenectady	93	8
Schoharie	8	2
Schuyler	2	0
Seneca	2	0
St. Lawrence	34	4
Steuben	38	14
Suffolk	7605	892
Sullivan	121	12
Tioga	7	0
Tompkins	68	2
Ulster	221	10
Warren	18	0
Washington	10	0
Wayne	24	5
Westchester	10683	716
Wyoming	10	1

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https://www.facebook.com/westchestergov/videos/2494627740801424/

In a Facebook News Conference yesterday, Westchester County Executive George Latimer issued the following information on how many coronaviruses infections each town and municipality has in Westchester County. The county has a growing rate of CoronaVirus Cases of 26% of those tested.

COVID-19 cases by municipality:

• Ardsley 19
• Bedford 28
• Briarcliff Manor 14
• Bronxville 20
• Buchanan 4
• Cortlandt 85
• Croton-on-Hudson 16
• Dobbs Ferry 42
• Eastchester 70
• Elmsford 13
• Greenburgh 130
• Harrison 52
• Hastings-on-Hudson 19
• Irvington 14
• Larchmont 16
• Lewisboro 16
• Mamaroneck Town 31
• Mamaroneck Village 30
• Mount Kisco 50
• Mount Pleasant 70
• Mount Vernon 224
• New Castle 35
• New Rochelle 346
• North Castle 27
• North Salem 4
• Ossining Town 18
• Ossining Village 132
• Peekskill 63
• Pelham 22
• Pelham Manor 21
• Pleasantville 27
• Port Chester 109
• Pound Ridge 3
• Rye Brook 31
• Rye City 32
• Scarsdale 59
• Sleepy Hollow 34
• Somers 24
• Tarrytown 35
• Tuckahoe 17
• White Plains 154
• Yonkers 508
• Yorktown 89
• Westchester Numbers:
  • Total Hospitalizes Cumulative 378
  • Total Currently 221
  • Number in Westchester Hospitalized 213
  • Deaths  19

These numbers reflect:

• The unincorporated sections of the part of town outside villages within the town
• The actual residents of the municipality, not “zip code” residents who live in an adjacent community.
• Data lags state number by as much as three days due to State release of data to the County only after the tested individual has been informed of their status.

Bee-Line Bus

• The Bee-Line Bus service will be transitioning to an enhanced Saturday schedule beginning this Wednesday.
• While a Saturday schedule is being used, it is subject to enhancement and busses added as needed.

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Tonight, Mayor Tom Roach, in his evening message to White Plains reported the number of cases by county was not provided by the state today. The Mayor reported that Westchester County supplied White Plains with these figures for White Plains.

Currently, the Mayor said, there are 156 White Plains residents with Coronavirus, up 12 from yesterday’s 144.

In Westchester County, Mayor said there were 378 Westchester residents with Coronavirus of whom 213 are hospitalized and there have been 19 deaths.

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WPCNR CORONOVIRUS REPORT By John F. Bailey. UPDATED 3: 30 PM EDT March 30, 2020;

The number coronavirus case grew to 66,497 overnight, up from 59,513 yesterday, 10.5% more cases.

A Statewide Command Center is being organized today by a consortium of New York Hospitals to manage coronavirus patients’ care in the weeks ahead. The Center will steer overwhelmed hospital overflows to other hospitals in the system statewide efficiently. The Center agreed to the center this morning at a meeting of downstate and upstate hospitals to set up the Center and promise it will functioning tomorrow.

The Command Center will function in real time, up to the minute reporting from hospitals, and will be able to fill up hospitals relieving as best as the system can so stressed facilities will not as crowded to prevent hospitals from being too stressed, promised the head of the Greater New York Hospitals Association.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said approval of the allocation decisions would be “made by me.” Cuomo added the Command Center would also monitor where supplies are needed and move the stockpiles of state medical supplies to the hospitals in need of resupply.

In a news conference at the converted-to-hospital Javitts Center, Governor Cuomo pointed out that neither the newly arrived navy hospital ship, USS Comfort that steamed in to Pier 90 today, as well as the Javitts Center, ( also opening today as a back-up hospital center) would not handle coronavirus patients.

Governor Cuomo in his remarks at the USS Comfort ,PIER 90 said:

Okay, well there she is. I want to thank Rear Admiral Mustin who is here. I want to thank the United States Navy. They really acted expeditiously in bringing this ship here. I want to thank the Army that is going to help staff the ship. I want to thank the President of the United States, President Trump, who mobilized this effort and he did with all rapid speed.

This will be 1,000 beds for New York hospitals. It won’t treat COVID-19 patients but it will be a relief valve for hospitals that are struggling now, that are over capacity all across the City. So, the 1,000 beds will come in very handy. These 1,000 beds will be complemented with 2,500 beds that we are doing in the Javits Center. I know the field hospitals that wereassembled by the U.S Army. Again, those won’t be for COVID-19 patients but they will be for a relief valve for the hospitals. So, we are doing this ship – 1,000 beds. Javits – 2,500 beds. About 3,500 beds to relieve the stress that our hospital system is facing.

No reporters asked how many ventilators the Comfort had, or how many ventilators the Javitts Center had, or why cornavirus patients at this time are not envisioned to be treated on the ship or in the Javitts Center.

Governor Cuomo said the nation is in a war, and warned all that the states need to be preparing now for the “apex” of maximum number of cases. The figures for states across the nation continue to rise, most notably California with approximately 6,000, Florida with over 4,000 and Illinois over 3,000. In contrast, New York has 66,497 cases. The good news from today’s briefing was that the rate of increase in cases (10.5%) was actually lower than Saturday’s 13%.

The governor said “There are no red states, there are no blue states. There is no prejudice. They are all red, white, and blue.”

Governor Cuomo pleaded for more medical volunteers to join the New York medical volunteer backup team. He called the medical personnel the soldiers in this war, saying that when New York gets through this onslaught of coronavirus infections, he would send New York medical teams to the next most affected states, and the next.

The governor said he has no interest in running for President, when asked what he thought of President Trump’s saying he (the President) would like to run against Mr. Cuomo.