COVID-19 Statistics Update, December 8, 2020

by Kassadee Bradshaw | December 8, 2020 4:33 pm

OSWEGO COUNTY – According to the Oswego County Health Department, as of 3 p.m., there have been 63 additional cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) since yesterday.

Today there are 544 active cases across the county.

SUNY Oswego reported no cases today.

The Oswego County Health Department is investigating confirmed cases of COVID-19 at two Oswego businesses.

Anyone who visited the following businesses during these time periods may have been exposed to COVID-19:

• Subway, 21 E. Bridge St., Oswego: Tuesday, Dec. 1, from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.;
• Bosco and Geers, 343 East Ave., Oswego: Wednesday, Dec. 2 from 3:30 to 9 p.m.

More information can be found here[1].

Oswego County Legislature Chairman James Weatherup posted a weekly briefing video today. In the update, he discussed regional metrics and what will happen should CNY’s hospitalization numbers not stabilize.

Yesterday, the state-wide positivity rate was 4.79%. In Oswego County, it was 7.7%. Over the past seven days, almost 8% of Oswego County residents who were tested for COVID had the virus.

“If you don’t know someone who has been infected or come in contact with an infected person, you probably will soon,” Weatherup said. “It is not safe for different households to get together, even if they are from the same family. This includes dinners, birthday parties, kids sleepovers and holiday parties.”

He said the virus is spreading to families in different households, adult care facilities and exposures in restaurants and businesses.

Although there is an alarming increase in cases in Oswego County, the state has not yet placed any county areas in a Yellow, Orange or Red Zone. Yesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that if a region’s hospitalization rate does not stabilize within five days, indoor dining restrictions will be reduced to 25% of a restaurant’s capacity.

Oswego County is grouped in to the Central New York region.

“These decisions are based on metrics and the State Health Department will be looking at regional hospital capacity and how much stress there is on the regional health care system,” Weatherup said. “If a region’s 7-day average hospitalization growth rate shows that the region’s hospitals have reached 90% of their patient capacity within the next three weeks, the region will become a Red Zone.”

This means restaurants would only be able to do take-out and non-essential businesses will close again. More information on how the zone restrictions work can be found here[2].

He said in the CNY region, hospitalizations have increased sharply within the past week. The number of available hospital beds and the number of available Intensive Care Unit beds are declining steadily, especially in the past five or six days.

Weatherup said yesterday Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Americans that the anticipated surge following the Thanksgiving holiday has not hit yet and everyone should be prepared for the pandemic to continue to get worse, especially come the middle of January.

The county’s COVID-19 Hotline (315-349-3330) is now open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday to Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Today’s statistics are below:

Oswego County:[3] (as of 3 p.m.) Note, the total number of positive cases is cumulative since March and the number of recoveries and deaths are of those numbers. SUNY Oswego cases are included in the county numbers, however, the county tracks only those living in Oswego County. That means that students who chose to leave and go back to their home county and test positive there will be included on the college’s dashboard, but not the county’s. Their positive result would be reported to their home county, not here.

• Total # of active cases: 544 (yesterday: 570)
• Total # of positive cases: 2,356 (yesterday: 2,293)
• Total # of recoveries: 1,807 (yesterday: 1,718)
• Total # tests: 87,600 (yesterday: 86,623)
• Total # of negative results: 84,822 (yesterday: 83,937)
• Total # of people in mandatory isolation/quarantine: 1,331 (yesterday: 1,390)
• Total # of deaths: 5 (no change)
• Total # of hospitalizations: 74 (as of Dec. 1)

Municipalities With Cases[4]: Map updated today.

1-10 confirmed cases: Amboy, Boylston, Redfield

11-25 confirmed cases: Minetto, Parish, Orwell, Williamstown

26-50 confirmed cases: Albion, New Haven, Sandy Creek

51-75 confirmed cases: Constantia, Hannibal, Mexico, Palermo, West Monroe

76-100 confirmed cases:  Richland, Scriba

101-150 confirmed cases: Granby, Schroeppel

151-200 confirmed cases: Hastings, Volney

201-250 confirmed cases: City of Fulton

251-300 confirmed cases: Oswego Town

Over 400 confirmed cases: City of Oswego

SUNY Oswego Statistics[5]: (as of 2:35 p.m.)

• Total number of active cases: 7 (no change)
• Total number of cumulative confirmed cases since Aug. 12: 386 (no change)
• Total number of tests: 22,466 (no change)
• Total number of recoveries: 379 (no change)
• Total number of confirmed cases Dec. 5 to Dec. 18: 4 (no change)
  • students living on-campus: 0 (no change)
  • students living off-campus while taking classes on-campus: 0 (no change)
  • employees working on-campus: 0 (no change)
  • students living off-campus learning remotely: 4 (no change)
  • employees working remotely: 0 (no change)
• Total number of on-campus quarantine rooms occupied: 0 (no change)
• Total number of on-campus isolation rooms occupied: 0 (no change)
• Total number of off-campus students in quarantine: 5 (yesterday: 9)
• Total number of off-campus students in isolation: 6 (no change)

Oswego County School Districts: Look for your school district’s COVID-19 report card here[6]. It shows if there are any positive cases within the school district, for students and staff.

New York: [7](as of yesterday)

• Total # of positive cases: No data yet (yesterday: 713,129)
• Total # of deaths: No data yet (yesterday: 27,232)

*NY numbers are from the NY State Department of Health.

Other updates from the state can be found here[8].

U.S.[9]: (as of 3:26 p.m.)

• Total # of positive cases: 15,087,418 (yesterday: 14,883,966)
• Total # of deaths: 285,518 (yesterday: 283,211)
• Total # of recoveries: 5,714,112 (yesterday: 5,624,444)

Worldwide:[10] (as of 3:26 p.m.)

• Total # of positive cases: 68,010,230 (yesterday: 67,440,864)
• Total # of deaths: 1,553,025 (yesterday: 1,541,661)
• Total # of recoveries: 43,727,112 (yesterday: 43,280,735)

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[11].

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[12]
  • These videos are briefings given by Oswego County officials on Tuesdays.
• City of Oswego Emergency Assistance[13]
• Fulton Coronavirus Hotline – 315-895-4767
• Oswego County Health Department [14]
• Oswego County Health Department COVID-19 dashboard[15]
• New York Department of Health[16]
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention[17]
• Unacast Social Distancing Scoreboard[18]
• Where to get help with food and general assistance[19]
• Oswego County Office for the Aging[20] –  315-349-3484

Links For Statistics:

• Oswego County[21]
  • Oswego County Health Department
• SUNY Oswego Dashboard[22]
• New York state [23]
  • New York Department of Health
• U.S. [24]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Worldwide[25]
  • Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

 

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