Monroe County Health Department Posts An Optimistic Video Regarding COVID-19 Rates

According to a video released by Monroe County Executive Adam Bello and Monroe County Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Mendoza, the downward trend of COVID-19 cases is continuing to decline across the Finger Lakes Region.

After having the highest case rate in the region a few weeks ago, the Monroe County Health Department says that the average of 127 new cases over the past week brings us down to a 1.6% weekly rate of infection.

“I want to focus on a message of optimism,” Dr. Mendoza said. “Things are beginning to change, things are beginning to reopen, in all the ways we have been longing for.”

“It’s important to keep our numbers down to protect ourselves and our families,” Bello said. “It is also to protect the hospital systems and the workers there. Earlier last year, we showed them an incredible amount of support and gratitude when our numbers were relatively low, but over the last few months they went through an incredible ordeal — at a time when our health care workers were away from their families in the hospitals, working long hours with little relief.”

Watch the video here.

Source:
RochesterFirst.com