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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.
