Onondaga County reports four COVID deaths over the weekend but infections flatten

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Four Onondaga County residents died from COVID-19 over the three-day Saturday through Monday period, Ryan McMahon, the county executive, reported on Twitter.

Those who died included a man in his 60s, another man in his 80s, a woman in her 70s, and another woman in her 90s. All four residents had underlying conditions.

The death total was down from five deaths the prior weekend. McMahon said the county had 558 infections this past weekend, down from 575 cases for the comparable three-day period a week ago.

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“We have flattened out a far as new case growth. Our [Rt] factor is now at 0.76, which makes sense with case growth flattening while absorbing new college cases,” the county executive wrote.

Rt measures the average number of cases generated from one infected person. The lower Rt gets below 1.0 the better.

Adam Rombel

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