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COVID on the rise on Shelter Island: Updates from Suffolk County


This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. (Credit: Courtesy illustration)
“The Shelter Island community continues to see a surge in Covid-19 positive cases over the past two months,” Police Chief Jim Read said Tuesday.
He noted that East End hospitals are seeing many more cases, but didn’t release updated numbers.
“This increase in positive cases is significantly higher than what they were in the preceding eight months combined,” Chief Read said.
Suffolk County tracked 23 COVID cases on the Island as of Tuesday morning, but there may be more since reporting varies between local and county numbers. The county health department, Chief Read has said, uses the home address given by those who test positive, which can be an Island address, or someone who is living here but has a home address somewhere else. ....

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