Westchester executive, community gather to stand up against hateful attacks on Asian Americans
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Mar 04, 2021, 11:21pm EST
People joined together in Westchester Thursday night to stand up against hateful attacks on Asian Americans.
New data released from STOP AAPI HATE says there have been more than 3,000 anti-Asian incidents nationwide since the pandemic began. Some of the incidents have been verbal altercations, and others have been violent.
While no attacks have been reported in Westchester, leaders of OCA, a local advocate group for Asian Pacific Americans, say they re worried.
They believe anti-Asian attitudes existed long before the pandemic but were heightened by the actions of former President Donald Trump - and that now many blame Asians for COVID-19.
There are new warnings about COVID spread in Brazil as the country reports a new single-day record for coronavirus-related deaths. That nation's health minister predicts Brazil will go through the worst of the pandemic this month.
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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.”
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A look back with Westchester County’s Public Health Nurses
On March 3rd of last year, Westchester County was brought to its knees by the worst pandemic in our nation’s history – COVID-19. One of the country’s first true epicenters of the virus was in New Rochelle. Chevon Jones, Caitlin Doyle-Goldsmith and Kathy Gomez, all Westchester County Public Health Nurses, were the first three nurses to respond to the pandemic in the New Rochelle containment zone. As the County prepares to mark the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 in Westchester, the nurses take a look back on what the past year has been like for them, as well as share their hopes for putting the pandemic behind us.