OSWEGO COUNTY – According to the Oswego County Health Department, as of 3 p.m., there have been 12 additional cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) since yesterday.
The cumulative reported number 489 is cases across the county and of those, 345 have recovered and four have died.
Oswego County Legislature Chairman James Weatherup posted a video today where he discussed the recent spike in COVID-19 cases in Oswego County.
“Over the past several days we saw a rapid increase in the SUNY Oswego students testing positive for COVID. In a 3-day period, there were 62 new cases in the county and most of them were associated with SUNY [Oswego.] Understandably, there has been a lot of concern around the county, not just in the City of Oswego and around the campus,” Weatherup said.
He shared what measures are being done to address the uptick in cases. Weatherup said the county’s public health team has been contacting students to find out where they live, where they have gone during the time they may have been infectious and who they had been with, and then they reach out to those who could have been exposed.
Students who have tested positive are in isolation and students waiting for their results to come back are in quarantine. There are now over 400 people in mandatory isolation or quarantine. If the student lives on-campus, it is the college’s responsibility to make sure the student has food and housing. If they live off-campus, the county health department checks to make sure they are able to isolate or quarantine properly and have food and other supplies. If not, the county provides rooms for isolation and quarantine.
Nurses check on those in isolation daily and contact tracers contact those in quarantine to monitor their health.
“I can assure you that the staff is diligent, professional, and very dedicated to protecting the health and safety of the public,” Weatherup said.
He also discussed what measures the college has taken, such as suspending athletics, Greek life activities, in-person dining, residence hall visitation, etc. More information can be found here. Students who violate the county health department’s isolation or quarantine orders will immediately be suspended.
Weatherup thanked SUNY Oswego President Deborah Stanley for taking those extra measures to help stop the spread of the virus.
Today’s statistics are below:
Oswego County: (as of 3 p.m.) Note, the total number of positive cases is cumulative and the number of recoveries and deaths are of those numbers. SUNY Oswego cases are included in the county numbers.
- Total # of active cases: 140 (yesterday: 128)
- Total # of positive cases: 489 (yesterday: 477)
- Total # of recoveries: 345 (no change from yesterday)
- Total # of hospitalizations: 28 (no change from yesterday)
- Total # of deaths: 4 (no change from yesterday)
- Total # tests: 42,524 (yesterday: 42,269)
- Total # of negative results: 41,878 (yesterday: 41,632)
- Total # of people in mandatory isolation/quarantine: 414 (yesterday: 379)
- Total # of positive antibody tests: 82 (as of Sept. 10)
- Total # of negative antibody tests: 3,281 (as of Sept. 10)
1-5 confirmed cases: Albion, Amboy, Boylston, Hannibal, Minetto, Orwell, Palermo, Parish, Redfield, Sandy Creek, Williamstown
6-10 confirmed cases: Mexico, New Haven, West Monroe
11-20 confirmed cases: Constantia, Richland, Scriba, Volney
21-30 confirmed cases: Schroeppel
31-40 confirmed cases: Granby, Hastings
41-50 confirmed cases: No municipality
51-60 confirmed cases: No municipality
61-70 confirmed cases: City of Fulton
71-80 confirmed cases: No municipality
81-90 confirmed cases: No municipality
91-100 confirmed cases: Oswego Town
Over 100 confirmed cases: City of Oswego
SUNY Oswego Statistics: (as of 4 p.m.)
- Total number of active cases: 145 (yesterday: 144)
- Total number of cumulative confirmed cases since Aug. 12: 174 (yesterday: 166)
- Total number of tests: 6,465 (yesterday: 6,361)
- Total number of confirmed cases Sept. 12 to Sept. 25: 78 (yesterday: 70)
- students living on-campus: 42 (yesterday: 40)
- students living off-campus while taking classes on-campus: 27 (yesterday: 23)
- employees working on-campus: 1 (no change)
- students living off-campus learning remotely: 8 (yesterday: 6)
- employees working remotely: 0 (no change)
- Total number of students in on-campus quarantine: 104 (yesterday: 98)
- Total number of students in on-campus isolation: 72 (yesterday: 86)
- Total number of recoveries: 29 (yesterday: 22)
Total on-campus cases counting toward the NYS 100-case threshold (Sept. 12 to Sept. 25) to move to remote learning: 70
The New York State Department of Health’s guidance states that colleges and universities must transition all in-person learning to remote, when 100 members of the on-campus population – inclusive of students, faculty, and staff – test positive for COVID-19 within a 14-day period. According to this guidance, only active cases at SUNY Oswego that are characterized as on-campus would count toward the 100 metric.
The college has not released information on their dashboard regarding how many off-campus students are in quarantine/isolation.
New York: (as of yesterday)
- Total # of positive cases: 445,714 (yesterday: 444,948)
- Total # of deaths: 25,405 (yesterday: 25,394)
*NY numbers are from the NY State Department of Health.
Other updates from the state include:
- Governor Cuomo has partnered with New Jersey Governor Murphy and Connecticut Governor Lamont to create a joint travel advisory for individuals traveling from states with significant community spread of COVID-19, requiring a quarantine for 14 days when visiting their states.
- Based on each region’s infection rate, schools across New York State are permitted to open this fall but each school district must have a testing and tracing plan and will decide if an in-person v. hybrid model works best for them while following strict Department of Health Guidance.
- Indoor dining in New York City will be allowed to reopen starting September 30 with a 25 percent occupancy but will be subject to strict safety protocols.
- New York City Restaurant Patrons Who Observe Violations Can Report Issues by Calling 833-208-4160, or by Texting ‘VIOLATION’ to 855-904-5036.
- To report violations of health and safety restrictions and requirements for businesses, gatherings and individuals, please choose the appropriate link below:
- Go to forward.ny.gov to find out: Which phase of reopening your region is in; the industry guidance for each phase; regional dashboards for monitoring how the virus is being contained; and information on loans for small businesses.
- New Yorkers without health insurance can apply through NY State of Health through September 15, 2020; must apply within 60 days of losing coverage.
- Health care workers can text NYFRONTLINE to 741-741 to access 24/7 emotional support services. Any New Yorker can call the COVID-19 Emotional Support Hotline at 1-844-863-9314 for mental health counseling.
U.S.: (as of 4:23 p.m.)
- Total # of positive cases: 6,593,154 (yesterday: 6,545,948)
- Total # of deaths: 195,414 (yesterday: 194,367)
- Total # of recoveries: 2,477,942 (yesterday: 2,450,184)
Worldwide: (as of 4:23 p.m.)
- Total # of positive cases: 29,398,712 (yesterday: 29,136,553)
- Total # of deaths: 930,910 (yesterday: 925,820)
- Total # of recoveries: 19,948,785 (yesterday: 19,678,810)
For information on symptoms, diagnostic testing, antibody testing, childhood inflammatory disease related to COVID-19, or other COVID-19 related topics, visit the Oswego County Health Department’s COVID-19 page.
Resources:
- Oswego County COVID-19 Hotline: 315-349-3330
- New York Mental Health Hotline: 1-844-863-9314
- Oswego COVID-19 Mental Health and Crisis Hotline: 315-343-5507
- Oswego County YouTube Updates
- These videos are briefings given by Oswego County officials on Tuesdays.
- City of Oswego Emergency Assistance
- Fulton Coronavirus Hotline – 315-895-4767
- Fulton COVID-19 updates
- Oswego County Health Department
- Oswego County Health Department COVID-19 dashboard
- New York Department of Health
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Unacast Social Distancing Scoreboard
- Where to get help with food and general assistance
- Oswego County Office for the Aging – 315-349-3484
Links For Statistics:
- Oswego County
- Oswego County Health Department
- SUNY Oswego Dashboard
- New York state
- New York Department of Health
- U.S.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Worldwide
- Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
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You want to show the residents of this county the health department really cares then start identifying the exact current cases in each town and city. Stop with the lies that releasing those current numbers are some kind of violation of patient privacy rights. There is nothing illegal in making the following statement…Currently there are X amount of active cases in the city of Oswego and so on. Onodauga county managed to do it. No faith is this health department getting any outbreak under control.