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Friday, May 15, 2020
Vol. 5, No. 20
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COUNTY CORONAVIRUS 2 PORT INCUMBENTS CHALLENGED FOR ED BOARD CASES CONTINUE TO DROP
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Parker leads N.Y. in deaths
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74 dead at nursing facility from virus BY E M M A J ON ES The Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation on the Queens-Nassau border has the highest number of coronavirus deaths of any of the 362 nursing homes in New York that have reported COVID-19 fatalities. According to the New York State Department of Health, there have been 74 confirmed coronavirus-related deaths at Parker Jewish, as of Thursday. While the nursing home is listed under a New Hyde Park address, the state Health Department classifies it as a Queens facility. Other facilities in Nassau County with high numbers of coronavirus fatalities include Excel at Woodbury for Rehabilitation and Nursing, with 21 confirmed and five presumed coronavirus deaths; Highfield Gardens Care Center of Great Neck, with 21 confirmed; Nassau Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, with none confirmed and 32 presumed; Sunharbor Manor, with 23 confirmed and 10 presumed; the Grand Rehabilitation Continued on Page 28
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that three regions throughout New York will begin phased reopening on Friday. See story on page 8.
Curran anticipates June reopening State figures show region has achieved five of seven required metrics BY R OB E RT PELAEZ As three regions in New York prepare to begin a phased reopening on Friday, downstate areas including Long Island may have to wait another six weeks, according to Nassau County Executive Laura Curran.
Curran said at a news conference last Friday that she expects Nassau County to begin the phased reopening next month. As of Tuesday, Long Island had met five of the seven criteria mandated by the state to begin the phased reopening. “Just to give you a rough estimate, our back-of-the-envelope number, we could get there probably by the end of June,” Curran said when asked when the county will reopen. The five metrics that Nassau met are having a 14-
day decline in hospitalizations and conducting 30 monthly tests per 1,000 residents, having a 30 percent capacity of total hospital beds, a 30 percent capacity of intensive care unit beds, and having at least 30 contact tracers for 100,000 residents. The two that it still needs to meet are a 14-day decline in hospital deaths or fewer than five deaths per day, and new hospitalizations of under two patients per 100,000 residents. The region has made 33 percent of total hospital beds and
intensive care unit beds available, surpassing the 30 percent benchmark required by the state. State figures indicated that the county is expected to achieve the contact tracing metric as well. As of Friday, Long Island ranked last among the 10 New York state regions regarding the phased-in reopening. Long Island’s hospitalization rate went from 5.7 residents per 100,000 last week to 2.85 this week. As of Tuesday, a total of 38,337 Nassau County residents Continued on Page 28
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