The Tompkins County Health Department will reduce its COVID-19 reporting to a weekly update from a daily tally, because the state Health Departmetn will no longer report daily positive cases to an online database communities have been basing their reports on.
The Tompkins County Health Department will instead report a case rate from the national Centers for Disease Control and prevention, as well as hospitalizations, admission, deaths, positive cases over the past seven days, and the percentage of people testing positive over the past week, as well as vaccination rates and the CDC community risk level.
The dashboard will update automatically, but the dashboard will move to www.tompkinscountyny.gov/health/covid19dashboard from the department's home page.
The state change means the state will no longer send a text message to people who test positive; they will need to rely on the test provider.
"We recognize the value of data in keeping the community informed of their personal risk from COVID-19 and have taken great pride in providing accurate, reliable and consistent data to our residents throughout the pandemic," Public Health Director Frank Kruppa said in a release. "With these values in mind, we believe the shift in our data reporting will strengthen the accuracy, reliability and consistency, as we work to continue providing our community with the information regarding local disease prevalence and severity.”
Cortland County reports 4 new COVID cases
Cortland County reported four cases of COVID-19 Tuesday, raising the number of confirmed cases since the pandemic began to 12,979, the state Health Department reports.
Tompkins and Cayuga counties reported 15 new cases Tuesday, and two deaths, the state reported. The three counties have seen 58,670 cases since the pandemic began in March 2020. The number of people who have died from the virus has risen to 405.
