Suffolk County reported Sunday that the COVID-19 positivity rate rolling average was below 9 percent for two days in a row. Stuck above 10 percent for the first week of January, it has been slowly coming down.
The cumulative case count on Shelter Island stands at 35, with the latest case reported in the Heights ZIP code on January 14. Local officials say they know of another dozen or so cases here that did not make the official county for a variety of reasons.
Some may have been people whose primary addresses are off-Island; others may be due to glitch in data reporting at the state level that caused addresses given as PO Boxes to be designated as “Township Unknown”.
Suffolk County COVID-19
Data is from Saturday, January 16.
Testing
- • 20,408 COVID-19 tests were administered
- • 2,257,458 total tests have been administered since March
- • 1,541 new cases were reported
- • 125,925 total cases have been reported since March
- • 5.6 percent of those tested since March have been confirmed positive for COVID-19
- • 6.8 percent tested positive on Long Island yesterday; 7.8 percent positive on a 7-day average
- • 7.6 percent tested positive in Suffolk County yesterday; 8.5 percent positive on a 7-day average
Antibody Testing
- • 33,956 individuals not previously tested for COVID-19 have tested positive for antibodies
- • 317,928 total were tested for antibodies
Fatalities
- • 17 fatalities
- • 2,577 total fatalities
Hospitalizations
- • 820 individuals were hospitalized, a decrease of 3 in 24 hours
- • 91 were new admissions
- • 139 patients were in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), a decrease of 8 in 24 hours
- • 84 patients were in the ICU and intubated
Hospital capacity
- • 3,214 hospital beds, 705 available, 22 percent
- • 430 ICU beds, 95 available, 22 percent
