NY STATE | County Cases, Deaths from COVID (3)

April 6, 2020—Nassau County's death rate from COVID-19 has nearly caught up with New York City's 29.3 deaths per 100,000 population as of early-morning data.

New York City's five counties and five other counties – Nassau, Rockland, Westchester, Orange and Suffolk – dominate the figures.

Deaths in Large Counties as of April 5. The large population of both New York City's five counties and Nassau County have raised the statewide average death rate to 21.2, as shown int he first table. The only other county in the state to be above the state average is Rockland. Westchester is now just below the state average, followed by Orange County and Suffolk County. No other county in New York State comes close to these ten counties.

This is an update of two earlier posts on NY County data, April 3 and March 27. It utilizes the interactive database of the New York Times. See earlier posts for references and notes.

Deaths by Age Group and Gender. The second table shows how a pattern is already forming in the data, with the largest number of victims being over 70 and male. 11.4 percent of the fatalities were patients 90 and over, 26.9 percent 80 and over, and 53.4 percent were 70 and over. By gender, 61 percent of the deaths were men.

Source: Fatalities from NYS Department of Health. Population data from U.S. Census Bureau (2018). American Community Survey 1-year estimates. Retrieved from Census Reporter Profile page for Suffolk County, NY. Also used data from Towncharts.com and combined data to estimate the population by age ranges.

East Hampton Town. The COVID-19 cases in the hamlets and villages and other designated census places within the Town, as of April 4, 2020, show that the largest concentration of cases are in the Village of East Hampton. So far there are no reported deaths in the Town of East Hampton.

Update, April 8, 2020—The number of cases rose to:

Suffolk County 17,444 (Deaths, 323).

EAST HAMPTON TOWN, 75. (No reported deaths.)

Northwest Harbor, 17Springs, 17East Hampton North, 18Montauk, 10East Hampton Village, 10Sag Harbor Village, 1Napeague, 2Wainscott, 0Amagansett, 0