Reviewing the positive cases after another four days ago:
Unincorporated Greenburgh: 1,089
Greenburgh Villages: 1,012
Town of Greenburgh 2,101
Village Breakdown
Elmsford: 188
Ardsley: 95
Tarrytown: 258
Irvington: 84
Dobbs Ferry: 266
Hastings: 121
The County's total of 31,869 has pulled ahead of the State's reported 30,240 positive cases overall for Westchester. The rate of geographically identified cases has jumped to 78%. Applying this 78% rate to the County's geographical numbers, we project the number of Greenburgh cases as:
Unincorporated Greenburgh: 1,396 (+146 in 4 days)
Greenburgh Villages: 1,297 (+135 in 4 days)
Town total 2,693
So we're finally getting reasonably updated geographic cases numbers from the County. But the County still doesn't feel the public deserves to know actual death number by locality. With not much effort, the County could be even more informative and provide positive case and death total by zip codes without violating any individual's HIPAA rights. Every town supervisor and police chief has this data but is prohibited from disclosing any information by the county. Of course protect individuals' privacy, but the County should consider its residents as adult who can digest and contextualize more specific information about the worst pandemic since 1968.
So we're finally getting reasonably updated geographic cases numbers from the County. But the County still doesn't feel the public deserves to know actual death number by locality. With not much effort, the County could be even more informative and provide positive case and death total by zip codes without violating any individual's HIPAA rights. Every town supervisor and police chief has this data but is prohibited from disclosing any information by the county. Of course protect individuals' privacy, but the County should consider its residents as adult who can digest and contextualize more specific information about the worst pandemic since 1968.
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