COVID-19 Rates In Monroe County Continue To Grow As The Weather Gets Colder

Officials from the Monroe County Department of Public Health reported 127 new COVID-19 cases on Monday afternoon.

This means that Monroe County has 1,049 new COVID-19 cases in the last 13 days, which averages out to 92 new cases a day.

Although the new case numbers are high, there have been no new virus related deaths, so Monroe County’s total number of COVID deaths stays at 307.

“County officials say 92 people in the Finger Lakes region are hospitalized with the virus, including 20 in the ICU. It’s the highest hospitalization rate reported since mid-June, before the figure included total regional patients.”

Health department officials released a statement on the discrepancy between the local numbers and those provided by New York state:
“There is typically a discrepancy between the total number of cases reported by Monroe County and the total number of cases reported by New York State. There are several reasons for this discrepancy, but it is largely due to two factors: 1) the time of day the reports are pulled differs and 2) many cases assigned to Monroe County by New York State are actually individuals who were tested in Monroe County, but live in another county. Monroe County forwards these cases to the other counties and resets the total number of cases every Monday.”

Source:
RochesterFirst.com