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Governor Cuomo Watch on the Covid

Posted on November 9, 2020 by John Bailey

WPCNR CORONAVIRUS REPORT. From Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. November 9, 2020:

Today, drug maker Pfizer announced early data from Coronavirus vaccine trials that the vaccine it is developing is more than 90 percent effective. This is great news.

But until a vaccine becomes a daily reality we must continue to be cautious. Until then, our job stays the same: Stop the spread. Each and every one of us.

This task is as crucial now as it is difficult. Unfortunately, we expect COVID cases to continue to rise this fall and winter.

We are in a new, extremely difficult phase of this pandemic, and we must continue to safeguard our health and the health of our community by following the simple steps we know to be effective. It’s been months. We all have COVID fatigue but we cannot give in.

As our national numbers climb, New Yorkers must respond with more commitment to wearing masks, distancing and doing all we can to stop this powerful virus.

Chart of the Day:

In our micro-cluster strategy, we implement different restrictions for each zone and have a clear criteria to determine when an area enters or exits a zone. Here’s what else you need to know tonight:

1. We have made modifications to existing micro-clusters and added new ones. The Red Zone in Brooklyn changes to an Orange Precautionary Zone and there are new Yellow Zones in Erie County, Monroe County and Onondaga County, in areas of those counties that met the threshold for establishing these new zones. More information and the maps of current cluster zones can be found here.

2. The positivity rate in the micro-cluster focus areas was 4.32 percent yesterday. The statewide positivity rate excluding these areas was 2.69 percent. Of the 111,416 tests reported yesterday, 3,144, or 2.82 percent, were positive. Total hospitalizations were at 1,444. Sadly, we lost 26 New Yorkers to the virus.

3. It took just ten days for total COVID cases in the US to go from nine million to ten million. Unfortunately, the virus is surging across the country, almost without exception. The accelerating rate of new cases is especially worrying. I know we are all tired, but once again, we must treat this crisis with the seriousness it calls for.

4. A Long Island country club lost its liquor license after hosting an illegal, super-spreader wedding. As we have seen time and time again, large gatherings can unfortunately turn into super-spreader events.

The State Liquor Authority has suspended the liquor license for the North Fork Country Club following a wedding which violated pandemic-related guidance. A total of 113 guests attended—more than double the number allowed—leading to 34 COVID-19 infections, and scores of people in quarantine. New York will not tolerate illegal and dangerous mass gatherings.

Tonight’s “Deep Breath Moment”: In Savannah, Georgia, six-year-old Bethany is helping the homeless in her neighborhood. In 2019, at age five, she started “Bethany’s Happy Bags for the Homeless,” which distributes bags with items that homeless people might need, such as protein bars, first aid, toiletries and more.

Bethany’s work has continued throughout the pandemic and it turns out that compassion runs in the family. Bethany’s aunt, Patricia, from Poughkeepsie, New York, volunteers for her local Medical Reserve Corps and serves as an EMT. If you were forwarded this email, you can subscribe to New York State’s Coronavirus Updates here.

Ever Upward, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo

Astorino-Harckham State Senate DISTRICT 40 Contest has 32,000 Absentee Ballots to be Counted. No Idea When County Board of Elections Starts Counting.

Posted on November 9, 2020 by John Bailey

WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2020. By John F. Bailey. November 9, 2020:

WPCNR reached out to the Robert Astorino campaign to get the handle on how many absentee votes have yet to be counted in the Robert Astorino-Peter Harckham race. When the unofficial election night results were last posted, Mr. Harckham led Mr. Astorino 45,881 votes to 42,196, a 3,685 vote margin.

Monday morning, William F. O’Reilly, of The November Group, spokesman for the Astorino campaign, issued this statement:

“There are around 32,000 ballots in for the Astorino-Harckham race. The count should begin later this week, but it may not be until next week that we get an answer. “

Sunday, Mr. O’Reilly expressed confidence that Mr. Astorino would win the Absentee Ballot vote, because, O’Reilly said Mr. Astorino was ahead in Absentee balloting by 9,ooo votes.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY CORONA VIRUS INFECTION RATE THROUGH SATURDAY HIGHER THAN MANHATTAN, BRONX, BROOKLYN, QUEENS: 3.4%

Posted on November 9, 2020 by John Bailey

WPCNR CORONAVIRUS REPORT. By John F. Bailey. November 9, 2020:

Westchester County tested 6,606 persons for Covid-19 Saturday November 7, and 225 tested positive moving the county infection (positive test results) to 3.4%. This rate of infection is higher than Manhattan’s (1.7%), The Bronx (3.2%), Brooklyn (1.9%), Queens (2.3%) Nassau County (1/2 %) .

WPCNR believes this is the highest infection rate 3.4% Westchester has experienced.

County Executive addressed the numbers in a new conference at 2 PM. Here is his message on the seriousness of the new infection rate.

Westchester County Executive on the 3.4% Infection Rate of Covid-19 Monday afternoon. Roll the video by clicking on the white > arrow in the lower left of the video freeze

In the course of his report, County Executive Latimer reported the number of Westchester persons being hospitalized with Coronavirus went from 44 on November 1st to 84 today which he said indicated the virus infections were growing, but not approaching the double digit rates the county saw in the spring.

He ended the Covid briefing attributing the rise in the infection rate to more social gatherings in residents’ homes.

He addressed Port Chester being designated a yellow zone by Governor Cuomo, and outlined that restaurants could remain open but limit seating to 4 persons a table (no tables of 10 for example), Churches had to limit services to 50 persons and and the maximum number of gatherings indoor or out is limited to 25 persons.

Mr. Latimer urged Port Chester residents to tests available Tuesday 10 am to 6 PM at Open Door Family Health Center and you must call to make an appointment.

Tuesday, November 10: 10 a.m. -6 p.m.

Those who wish to make an appointment should call 914-995-7425 or click here to do so online. Walk-ins will only be accepted on a limited basis.

He urged all to wear masks and practice social distancing but did not outline any penalties of any kind for not wearing a mask in the County.

As part of the briefing he announced awarding of $10 Million to Westchester businesses victimized by Covid, the first to receive the $49,000 grant of the Business First program, was Jazz Forum in Tarrytown

Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire

Posted on November 9, 2020 by John Bailey

WPCNR THE LETTER TICKER. November 9, 2020:

Dear Editor,

Yes, we averted an unmitigated disaster. It is doubtful that either our democracy or our planet would have survived another four years of Donald Trump.

But can they survive another six years of Mitch McConnell, two of them as Majority Leader? If democracy requires an informed citizenry, is a democracy even possible when tens of millions of voters (and at least one member of Congress). QAnon claims that “the world is run by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles”?

Add to that the fact that we are in the middle of the worst public health crisis in over a century and the worst economic collapse in nearly a century. Joe Biden was on the inaugural platform with Barack Obama the last time a Democratic administration was charged with fixing the devastation wrought by a departing Republican administration, but the damage is far greater today.

Since February 2020, the economy has shed over 10 million jobs and 235,000 Americans have lost their lives to a pandemic that was exacerbated by President Trump’s colossal incompetence and callous indifference. By comparison, “only” some 3.8 million jobs were lost in the eight months before Obama and Biden were inaugurated.

Moreover, when Biden and Harris are inaugurated on January 21, 2021, Democrats will have a reduced majority in the House and “Dr. No” will remain in charge of the Senate. In 2009, by contrast, Democrats controlled both Houses of Congress, which enabled them to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“ARRA”) and prevent a second Great Depression. When Obama left office, only Clinton and Reagan had created more jobs during their terms.

Some things remain constant, however. You can bank on Republicans becoming deficit hawks the second a Republican passes the presidency to a Democrat, usually after having exploded the deficit and crashing the economy. Although they aided and abetted George W. Bush in doubling the deficit, Republicans got religion as soon as Obama took office and didn’t shut up about the deficit until Donald Trump was elected, at which point they fell silent again. Expect more selective amnesia and shameless hypocrisy once Biden takes office.

And expect that Republican will continue to deny four decades of empirical evidence establishing that tax cuts do NOT “pay for themselves” and are in fact a very inefficient way to stimulate the economy, especially when the vast majority of the cuts go to the wealthiest Americans.

For example, every quarterly report issued by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that the LEAST effective job creator in ARRA was tax cuts to the wealthy. More recently, the Trump tax cuts of 2017 were found to have had little stimulant effect and to have fallen wildly short of paying for themselves.

It’s clear that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have their work cut out for them. They have promised to reach out to Republicans and work for all Americans. We need to have their backs if Republicans revert to form and put party over country over planet.

Michael K. Cantwell