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WESTCHESTER 1ST WEEK OCTOBER CONTINUES COVID INFECTION PACE.

Posted on October 8, 2022 by John Bailey

8,800 COVID HOSPITALIZATIONS IN NEW YORK CITY IN THREE MONTHS.

CDC: MONKEY POX DECLINING NEXT FEW MONTHS DEPENDING ON BEHAVIOR.

3,984 MONKEY POX CASES IN NEW YORK STATE LEAD NATION.

WPCNR COVID SURVEILLANCE. Statistics from New York State Covid-19 Tracker. Observation and Analysis by John F. Bailey. October 8, 2022:

Westchester County 2022 Covid-19 infections spread at double the rate they spread one year ago, averaging 180 new cases a day through Thursday compared to 98 a day the first week in October in 2021.

County Executive George Latimer and Dr. Sherlita Amler held a news conference at the County Board of Health Tuesday starting a drive to encourage vaccinations for covid and the flu. Mr. Latimer received his fourth Covid shot, and a flu shot at the same time. and Dr. Amler emphasized Westchester residents should return to get all their first vaccination series if they have not already done so. Dr. Amler said it has been the county experience that in the fall infections of covid rise due to increased social gatherings.

WPCNR notes that the Labor Day Weekend and unknown covid infections in the first week of school rose September cases 2022 to 5,205, 133 less than the September 2021 cases of 5,338.

However Westchester this September and first week in October are spreading at an 8% of those lab-verified tested being positive compared to 2% infection rate last September when the fall. Remember that was a time when we had no vaccine, but had strict social distancing and gathering rules and masking was in effect. This is why folks should listen to Mr. Latimer and Dr. Amler and just get it.

She implored Westchester residents who are fully vaccinated to go on the www.westchestergov.com website and click to the Department of Health and make an appointment to get the variant at the Board of Health.

(You can see that 2 minute segment on the White Plains Week report it’s right at the top of the program on www.wpcommunitymedia.org)

In Westchester County, here is what covid did this week: 1,085 new infections with Friday results due this afternoon and Saturday tomorrow.

Around Westchester, here are the areas that are responsible for the most infections (over 100):

Yonkers, Mr. Vernon, New Rochelle, White Plains, Yorktown, Greenburgh, Cortlandt, New Castle and North Castle, Mt.Pleasant-Pleasantville, and Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow. As of October 6, those 13 towns and cities, accounted for 67% (2,075) of the 3,089 Westchester infections the last two weeks, and those 13 towns averaged an aggregate of 1,200 new daily infections daily.

What is more disappointing is in 5 weeks, those towns have not improved their covid fighting.

How is the Mid Hudson Region doing?

Orange and Westchester and Rockland and Dutchess Counties are infecting steadily. Overall in a week the Mid-Hudson region tested 5,684 and 445 were confirmed positive, an infection rate of 7%. Westchester was 5.6% with an average daily infection rate in 7days of 20.3 persons per 100,000 of population, that is 211 a week which times 4 weeks is 844 people which is a little shy of the 1,336 we actually recorded last week.

But here’s the twist: These are lab-test verified positives. With more infections than there should be then persons may not be quarantining after testing positive, let alone or worse, not confirming they are positive with a lab test, then getting sick spreading the disease and then the lab records the tests when persons catch the covid from non quarantiners, or socially mingling positives, that might explain why the infections are higher than the 20.3 spread rate.

This home testing started April 4 2022 is not working in giving us a true picture of the disease spread pattern.

In my opinion, it is spreading disease since April 4 creating this new wave in the making as Karelyn Jettelina, the epidemiologist writes in her Your Local Epidemiologist newsletter October 5, which you can read on this website.

On the Monkey pox disease, the Center for Disease Control says the disease is declining, and should continue to do so. There are 26,577 cases of Monkeypox in the U.S.

New York state has 3,984,second to California at 5,135. New Jersey has 723 and Connecticut, 131.

Florida has 2,572. Texas, 2,410. Georgia, 1,839.

WHITE PLAINS WEEK — THE SEPT 7 REPORT–SEE IT ANYTIME ON www.wpcommunitymedia.org

Posted on October 8, 2022 by John Bailey

**MAYOR ROACH ANNOUNCES NEW CONTRACTS FOR CSEA, TEAMSTERS, FIREFIGHTERS OUT 2024.**

WESTCHESTER COUNTY EXECUTIVE GEORGE LATIMER AND HEALTH COMMISSIONER DR. SHERLITA AMLER WARN OF REAPTING COVID SPREAD OF LAST FALL–PUSH FOR CONTINUING YOUR COVID VACCINATIONS AND IF YOU’RE FULLY VACCINATED, GET THE BIVALENT BOOSTER PLUS YOUR COVID SHOT–WATCH THE ACTUALITY

**THE BIG MONEY IS BACK! WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND WHITE PLAINS ECONOMIES HUMMING WITH SALES TAX RECEIPTS REVING UP ECONOMY** RIGHT NOW!

**GOVERNOR HOCHUL KEEPS DOING AND DOING AND DOING –TURNING ANTIQUATED ROUTE 17 IN ORANGE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES INTO INTERSTATE 86; ESTABLISHES CHIP FACTORY IN SYRACUSE.**

**COVID SPREADING FASTER THAN IT DID LAST SEPTEMBER THREAT OF A NEW WAVE**

**NEW YORK CITY HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR COVID: 8,800 IN 3 MONTHS**

NEW YORK DISGRACE: NONE OF 9 COUNTIES SURROUNDING NEW YORK CITY NO OTHER ADJACENT STATE ACTS TO *HELP SHELTER* REFUGEES — THE “TEXAS NOT WANTED”– NEITHER DO THE UPSTATE COUNTIES. NO ACTION EXCEPT BY NYC’S MAYOR ADAMS. **WHY CAN’T THE STATE ROLL UP ITS SLEEVES AND HELP THEM?**

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Posted on October 8, 2022 by John Bailey

**WPCNR WEEKEND DATELINE: REPORTER’S COMMANDMENT # 65**

Woman Long Time Domestic Abuse Victim, Serving 12 Years for Killing Boyfriend, Has Sentenced Reduced.

Posted on October 8, 2022 by John Bailey

WPCNR LAW JOURNAL. From the Westchester County District Attorney. October 8, 2022:

The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office has, for the first time, consented to the resentencing of a domestic violence survivor under New York State’s 2019 Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA).

The DVSJA gives the court discretion to resentence defendants who suffered sexual, psychological or physical abuse that significantly contributed to their criminal conduct.

Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah recommended a five-year resentence, the maximum under the DVSJA, for Jonitha Alston, who has been serving a 12-year sentence for her manslaughter conviction for the 2016 stabbing death of her boyfriend, Dennis Graham.

Judge Robert Neary vacated the original sentence, of which Alston served nearly five years, and granted our recommendation of a five-year resentence, with five years of post-release supervision, in Westchester County Court on October 7, 2022.

“I want to thank the court for its thoughtful consideration. After a careful review of the motion filed by Ms. Alston under the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act, and a recent examination by an expert psychologist, we concluded that Ms. Alston was subject to physical and psychological abuse at the time of her offense, and the history of this abuse, combined with the perceived threat to her daughter at the time of the offense, significantly contributed to her commission of the crime,” DA Rocah said.

“The Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act is an important evolution in the way the criminal justice system views survivors of abuse. The legislation is narrowly crafted and requires a strict set of eligibility requirements, which we took into consideration during our careful and thorough evaluation of this request.”

“This is a life-changing result for Ms. Alston and her family, friends and community. This case shows what can be accomplished when the DVSJA is coupled with a prosecutor’s office that views domestic violence survivors through a compassionate, holistic and trauma-informed lens,” said Ross Kramer, Director of the Incarcerated Gender Violence Survivors Initiative at Sanctuary for Families, one of New York’s largest service providers and advocates for survivors of gender-based violence that played a lead role in the passage of the DVSJA.

“Pace Women’s Justice Center is so pleased to see the Westchester County DA’s Office use the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act for the first time to reduce the sentence of an incarcerated survivor of domestic violence. It is fitting that this type of action was taken during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, giving voice to survivors. It speaks loudly of the Office’s understanding of the complexity of domestic violence prosecutions within the criminal justice system,” said Cindy Kanusher, Executive Director for Pace Womens Justice Center, which provides free legal services to victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse.