Workers on the front lines in New York, including nurses, doctors, transit workers and police officers, have been testing positive for coronavirus at lower rates than the general population. In his daily coronavirus press briefing yesterday, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said nurses for example, have been testing at 12 percent while New York City residents have been near the 20 percent mark…
Members of the New York State Police are at the 3 percent positive mark, compared to 12 percent of the upstate New York population. Other COVID-19 numbers, the state now has confirmed around 340,000 total cases of coronavirus across the state and more than 22,000 deaths. In Rockland, the state says we’ve got over 12,500 reported cases, and the Rockland Health Department confirms 586 fatalities here in the county.