More than 8,200 coronavirus cases on Staten Island; fatality number continues to rise

STATEN ISLAND – The number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases on Staten Island has surpassed 8,200, while the confirmed death total continued its ascent to 346, data from the city Health Department shows.

Besides the confirmed fatalities, the Health Department listed an additional 50 deaths in the borough as “probable” due to the coronavirus.

A death is classified as “probable” if the decedent was a city resident who had no known positive laboratory test for the coronavirus, but the death certificate lists “COVID-19” or an equivalent as a cause of death.

As of 4:30 p.m. Monday, there were 8,236 confirmed coronavirus cases on Staten Island, according to the Health Department’s most recently published data.

The agency had been posting updates twice daily – in the morning and late afternoon – but is now only doing so in the afternoon.

The latest totals are reflective of the prior afternoon’s figures.

The new case and death tallies represented increases of 38 and 16, respectively, from earlier totals of 8,198 and 330.

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Meanwhile, Staten Island’s hospitals continue to report daily patient updates.

As of Tuesday morning, the number of patients receiving coronavirus treatment on the Island stood at 461, a decline of 23 from Monday morning’s tally of 484, according to information from the borough’s two hospital systems.

Daily hospitalization numbers had ranged between 507 and 484 from Thursday morning through Monday morning.

That number had hit 554 last Wednesday.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the decrease in patient totals was due, in part, to transfers from the hospitals to other medical facilities around the city.

At Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH), 300 patients were receiving treatment Tuesday morning – 238 in the Ocean Breeze campus and 62 in the Prince’s Bay facility, said Jillian O’Hara, a spokeswoman.

That figure represented a decrease of 24 patients from Monday’s total of 324.

Richmond University Medical Center had 161 coronavirus patients as of Tuesday morning, an increase of one from Monday morning’s tally of 160, Alex Lutz, a spokesman, said. Of those patients, 44 are in the Intensive Care Unit, down from 58 on Monday.

Across the five boroughs, there were 107,263 coronavirus cases as of 4:30 p.m. Monday, an increase of 450 from that morning’s tally of 106,813 at 9:30 a.m.

Unfortunately, confirmed coronavirus deaths spiked by 407 over that seven-hour period to a total of 6,589.

Besides the confirmed total fatalities, the Health Department reported an additional 1,927 deaths as “probable” for the coronavirus.

Of the 5,167 fatalities thus far investigated in the city, the vast majority probed – 5,034, or 97.4% – occurred in patients with underlying medical issues, said the agency.

Underlying conditions include diabetes, lung disease, cancer, immunodeficiency, heart disease, hypertension, asthma, kidney disease and gastro-intestinal/liver disease, said the Health Department.

On the plus side, the number of patients treated for the coronavirus and released from borough hospitals continues to rise.

That total hit 911 as of Tuesday morning, an increase of 42 from Monday.

There were 31 new discharges at SIUH, raising the total there to 726, O’Hara said.

At Richmond University Medical Center, 185 patients had been treated and released as of Tuesday morning, boosting the prior day’s tally of 174 by 11, said Lutz.

Testing, which officials stress does not necessarily reflect the full spread of the virus, shows 1,730 of every 100,000 Staten Islanders have tested positive, according to 2018 Census data projections and the Health Department’s Monday afternoon data.

Staten Island retains the highest rate among the five boroughs and accounts for 8% of the city’s total coronavirus cases.

The Bronx’s infection rate of 1,636 residents per 100,000 is the second highest in the city. Its 23,426 cases account for 22% of the city’s total.

Queens continues to have the third highest rate of confirmed coronavirus cases in the city, with 1,475 residents per 100,000 testing positive. That borough has 33,616 cases, the most among the five boroughs and comprising 31% of the city’s total.

Brooklyn, the most populated borough, has the fourth-highest rate of infection per 100,000 residents – 1,091.

Brooklyn’s 28,183 cases are the second highest among the five boroughs.

Brooklyn accounts for 26% of the city’s reported coronavirus cases, Health Department statistics show

Manhattan retains the lowest infection rate among the boroughs with 844 per 100,000 residents testing positive.

There have been 13,740 positive cases in Manhattan, comprising 13% of the five-borough tally, according to the city’s Health Department.

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