COUNTY EXECUTIVE LATIMER LETTERS HOMELAND SECURITY TO ESTABLISH FIELD COURT IN WHITE PLAINS TO ESTABLISH STATUS WHEN AND IF MORE MIGRANTS ARRIVE
MAY COVID COUNT WESTCHESTER DAILY POSITIVES: 646 A WEEK/2,584 A MONTH
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71 PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED FOR SERIOUS COVID AT WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL IN MAY—60% OF TOTAL ROOM ADMISSIONS.
WPCNR COVID SURVEILLANCE. Statistics from NY Covid Health Department. Observation & Analysis by John F. Bailey. May 30, 2023.
The daily covid positives in Westchester County based on positive lab verified results per 100,000 population numbered 156 through Saturday May 27. The week of May 21 through May 27 marked the 6th straight week since the week of April 9 to 15 (when Westchester reported 228 new cases) that the county has averaged a stubborn slow decline in covid cases from 288 down to 156 last week, a 11% decline in 6 weeks.
The average new daily cases per week has averaged 174 cases a week , a total of 1,045 across Westchester the last 6 weeks. Every week 174 new cases were reported in Westchester.
At White Plains, at White Plains Hospital Medical Center, the hospitalizations of persons seriously ill with covid requiring rooms at the hospital have averaged 60% of all persons admitted to hospital beds through the first 29 days of may (71 coved patient admissions to rooms of 119 admitted, 60%). The covid admissions to rooms amount to 11 of 28 hospitalizations last week, a decline from the previous week. This is a reminder that if you have not gotten fully vaccinated and your two boosters, you might want to get up to date. Covid is out there. It is stubbornly hanging on.
As readers of this column know, only daily cases lab verified are being reported by the Covid Tracker. This means the total cases of positives out there on any given day is not known (not verified because there is no trace testing, no admonition to have antigen tests reported for verification by a lab).
The ability to project covid spread into the summer is hard to tell. Well, the daily cases per 100,000 in Westchester the last month work out when multiplied by Westchester County population of 1,004,000 we can tell you how the disease will spread, whether it will grow, remain the same or diminish.
Through May, it diminished but now seems to be reducing in infections and is plateau at 175 a month.
Last week the new infections were at 2.3 a day per 100,000 population for 7 days. Multiply that by 10.04 ( 1,004,000 Westchester population) that works out to 23 new cases a day. That means 161 new infections were the potential new covid cases last week based on the population. If the 2.3 daily rate continues, and you multiply that by 4 weeks the month of June may see 2,584 infections of actual infections. But wait!
The 2,584 infections expected from this artificially low positive 2.3 daily cases per 100,000 are verified.
Who knows who will go in and get lab-tested?
Last June the “Anything Goes” lack of enforcement of covid infections was instituted by the state legislature that took away the Governor’s powers in 2021to declare a health emergency gave the covid disease a 5th wave. In June of 2022, 9,632 infections (lab verified) that was based on actual test positives were recorded, which climbed to over 10,000 new covid infections. Totals of new covid cases daily average 300 a day for the month of June last year.
Will this Summer Spread happen again? The vaccines have steadily lowered the number of covid cases the last 11 months.
We have no way of knowing how many persons will be out there in June carrying covid and not getting positive antigen tests verified by a lab test, and how sick they will get.
If you go by projecting the present 2.3 daily infection rate, the daily infections not counted by verification of antigen tests, could be a very low number of the daily infections (lab tested) continue to decline. If the daily rate goes up, will they go up another 3,000 perhaps?
The only way to prevent getting covid if the June mystery covid carriers multiply and start growing to last year’s levels, is to complete your vaccine series and the boosters. And mask more. Very few were masked when I was out in public over the weekend.
WHITE PLAINS REMEMBERS THE FALLEN, GIVES THANKS SO THAT WE MAY LIVE IN SAFETY,NOT FEAR” MAYOR SAYS
WHITE PLAINS VETERANS LEAD THE MEMORIAL DAY PARADE THIS MORNING.
WHITE PLAINS COMMON COUNCIL AND REPRESNTATIVES, STEPPING SMARTLY (FROM LEFT) JUSTIN BRASCH, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS JOSEPH RICCA, COUNCILWOMAN NADINE HUNT-ROBINSON, CONGRESSMAN JAMAAL BOWMAN, COUNCILMAN JOHN MARTIN, COUNTY LEGISLATOR BEN BOYKIN, COUNCILWOMAN JENNIFER PUJA AND MAYOR THOMAS ROACH
THE PARADE STARED PRECISELY AT 10 A.M.. ONE OF THE LONGER PARADES IN RECENT YEARS.
MAYOR ROACH PRESENTED THE DECEASED VETERAN HONOREE AWARD TO THEODORE J LEE, JR., WHOSE DAUGHTER (Center) ACCEPTED THE AWARD FOR HER FATHER. MAYOR ROACH CALLED HIM A PERSON WHO ALWAYS MADE YOU SMILE AND A WONDERFUL CITIZEN OF WHITE PLAINS. HIS DAUGHTER IS THE 4TH GENERATION MEMBER TO RUN THE LEE FUNERAL HOME.
Veteranss Robert “Bob” Wynn, U.S Marines; Stephen Wallfish, Army, Jewish War Veterans Post #191 , and Dan Griffin, Army, American Legion Post 135 read the names of the 66 White Plains Citizens who have died in United States Wars in service to their country, dating back to the American Revolution.
THE MAYOR HONORED THE GRAND MARSHALL OF THE PARADE, CHARLES MEBANE, SR. OF THE U.S. AIR FORCE. THE MAYOR SAID SAID MR. MEBANE AID HE WAS A ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AND HARRY TRUMAN SOLDIER, WHO SERVED WITH THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, AND WAS DISCHARGED IN 1951. HE RETURNED TO WHITE PLAINS AND BECAME A BARBER, WHERE MAYOR SAID THAT WHILE MOST BARBERSHOPS TALKED THE SPORTS SCORES MR. MAGRANE TALKED TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO CAME IN ABOUT THE CHALLENGES OF LIFE. TR. MAGRANE (IN NATTY TAN CAP), REMARED ” PEOPLE ASK HOW I’M FEELING, I SAY SOMETIMES I DON’T FEEL GOOD, BUT IT’S BETTER THAN NOT FEELING AT ALL.”
In closing remarks, Mayor Tom Roach, said “On this beautiful Memorial Day, we are so grateful to the last measure of devotion these veterans gave to their country.” He said that he is correspondence with a member of the city council in Kyiv, Ukraine. He reflected how when school closes here it is because of weather, but the council member’s city is under seige. The Mayor said we in this country are fortunate to be safe from the forces that would threaten our safety and sense of peace. He said we have the sacrifice of our veterans who have died fighting for freedom to thank for our security today.
After placement of wreaths, Cynthia Kauffman, Daughters of Liberty read Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
A RIFLE SALUTE TO THE DEPARTED VETERANS BY THE FIRING SQUAD AND COLOR GUARD, AMERICAN LEGION POST #135 ECHOED ACROSS THE SILENT CEMETARY GROUNDS.
TAPS WAS PERFORMED BY PETER GASIEWICZ, MARINE INFANTRY VETERAN, BUGLES ACROSS AMERICA
The White Plains High School Marching Band performed great marches all the way to the Rural Cemetery, entertaing folks lining North Broadway including a stirring National Anthem, and the Drum Corps kept groups, scout packs, The Rotary and civic groups in step.