COVID-19 Update

Five of the ten regions in New York have met the benchmarks required to begin reopening today. The Capital District Region, of which Columbia County is a part, has not. For us, the PAUSE order has been extended until May 28. The benchmarks not met in our region are a fourteen-day decline in new hospitalizations and fourteen-day decline in hospital deaths.

Meanwhile, the Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there has been another death in Columbia County, six new positive cases of COVID-19, and five more people have been admitted to the hospital, one more is in the ICU. The results for 181 more Columbia County residents have been received.

As of 2 p.m. on May 15, 2020:

• We are sad to report Columbia County has had a 25th person that has passed away from COVID-19. Of those 25 deaths, 5 have been from the community, 11 have been residents of Pine Haven, and 9 have been residents of Barnwell.
• 339 positive cases of COVID-19
• 150 of the 339 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 16 of the positive cases are hospitalized, 2 of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 2,915 test results completed for Columbia County residents
• 150 residents are under mandatory quarantine and 5 under precautionary quarantine