COUNTY STILL
COVID-19 FREE
COOPERSTOWN – There are still no Otsego County residents who tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, Otsego County Director of Public Health Heidi Bond said a few minutes ago.
There are still tests for which results have not yet come back, however.
“We are aware of 87 county residents that have been tested,” she said. “Twenty-six of those have come back negative and the remaining 61 are awaiting results.”
As of now, according to the Albany Times Union, there are:
• 7,100 in New York, including 38 deaths
• 14,250 in the U.S., including 205 deaths
There are patients with Covid19 at Bassett in Cooperstown. They may not be Otsego County residents, but it seems misleading to claim that the county is free of the disease. Those patients have certainly come into contact with county residents. We all need to be careful and not act as if the virus was not here yet. Our biggest threat is not fear, but complacency.