Livingston County first responders are scheduled to visit area nursing homes, assisted living facilities and Noyes Memorial Hospital tonight on what they are calling âOperation Light It Up.â
The mission, organized by the Livingston County Sheriffâs Office, will find members of the Sheriffâs Office, police, fire and ems stopping at the facilities and lighting up the night with the vehiclesâ safety lights. Santa Claus is also expected to accompany the group and Christmas music will be played.
âThis is our way of letting all these seniors know we are thinking of them and here for them,â Sheriff Thomas J. Dougherty said in a Facebook post this week.
The four-county GLOW region saw 142 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, as the number of active cases continues at their highest level since the pandemic arrived in the region in March.
Livingston County matched Genesee County on Thursday with 187 active cases each. For Livingston County the total represented the most active COVID-19 cases in a single day.
Genesee, Livingston, Orleans and Wyoming counties have a total of 636 active cases as of Thursday, according to data from the countiesâ health departments.
The rising cases comes a day after a New York Times article looked at the availability of intensive care unit beds across the country. An interactive map accompanying the article, âThereâs No Place for Them to Go,â showed that more than half of the ICU beds in two of the GLOW counties were occupied, while a third county was nearing that threshold. At Noyes Memorial Hospital in Dansville, five out of eight ICU beds, or 57 percent, were occupied, an
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