By Judy Berger | March 10, 2021
March 3 marked the one-year anniversary of the Young Israel of New Rochelle’s quarantine by the Westchester County Health Commissioner. The YINR community gathered via Zoom to mark the occasion and receive a message of chizuk from Rabbi Fink.
Current YINR President Andrew Wurzburger highlighted Westchester County Executive George Latimer’s press release, “At the direction of Westchester County health commissioner, Dr. Sherlita Amler, I had to inform Young Israel of New Rochelle to halt all services immediately and for the foreseeable future, due to potential COVID-19 exposure connected to the man who tested positive today. Additionally, congregants of the synagogue who attended either services on February 22, or a funeral or bat mitzvah at the temple on February 23, must self-quarantine until at the very earliest March 8. Those who do not self-quarantine will be mandated to by the County Department of Health to do so.”
Otero County COVID-19 testing blitz begins
Otero County Emergency Management Department began hosting COVID-19 testing sites around Otero County on March 9.
On this first day of the Otero County COVID-19 testing clinics, 90 people signed up with a total of 120 slots available.
The tests are Curative PCR tests that are self-administered with a member of Otero County Emergency Services staff advising the test subject on how to complete the mouth swab.
Once the swab is complete, which takes about 20 seconds, the test is sealed and shipped to a testing facility and results come back within 48 hours. Our goal is to test as many people as we can to help change the positivity rate in Otero County, Otero County Emergency Services Director Matt Clark said. Bring us under 5% which we know once we re under 5%, we can move out of the red. It doesn t matter if we have 100 cases a day, as long as our positivity rate stays below that 5%, we ll be allowed to open up more depending on h
Westchester County Executive George Latimer is pleased with the progress being made in the battle against COVID-19 as the number of active cases fell below 6,000.Latimer said that the county is
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Democratic New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney held a virtual roundtable Friday with three county executives. The gathering marked one year since Maloney’s first COVID-19 roundtable when the first cases in his 18th District emerged.
Congressman Maloney joined with Republican Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, visiting the short-term vaccination site at Marist College in Poughkeepsie. The state site began administering 3,500 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Friday. And they joined two other county executives virtually.
“Look folks, it was one year ago today that Marcus and Steve and I got together with the health commissioners and others, and it was the start of this horrific year that we’ve all lived through,” Maloney says.
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Westchester County Executive George Latimer hosted a COVID-19 commemoration Wednesday, marking one year since the county’s first confirmed case. New Rochelle became the epicenter of the virus in New York early in the pandemic.
Westchester Deputy County Executive Ken Jenkins recalled March 3, 2020.
“The county executive, George, called at 10 minutes to 8 on the 3rd, and it’s, it was unusual because we do a lot of texting because that’s the world we live in, but for him to call that early in the morning, I thought something must be wrong, and the county executive said that we had our first case here in Westchester County,” Jenkins says. “Five minutes after 8, the mayor of New Rochelle Noam Bramson called and was validating that information, and then we’ve been all working through this particular scenario together.”