3 rural counties – Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming – pass 1,000 positive Covid cases since March

By Tom Rivers, Editor Posted 5 November 2020 at 10:28 pm

Orleans has highest positive rate of 3 counties

The three rural counties of Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming crossed a milestone this week when they exceeded 1,000 cases of Covid-19 combined since March.

On Monday, the combined cases in Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming were at 990. Today, they were at 1,045.

Orleans has had the most cases among the three counties since March with 414, despite a smaller population than neighboring Genesee, which has had 411 cases. Wyoming has had 220 cases.

Orleans and Wyoming are similar in size at about 40,000 people. (Orleans had 40,352 in the 2019 Census estimate, while Wyoming had 39,859 in the Census estimate from last year. Genesee has closer to 60,000 people at 57,280.)

All three counties have seen the rate of cases rise significantly in the past month. Genesee has 88 new cases since Oct. 5, while Orleans has 96 more and Wyoming, 86 more Covid cases.

Compare that with July 6 to Aug. 5, when Genesee added 35 cases, Orleans was up 13 and Wyoming had 20 more cases.

Here are where the three counties were in cases in the past four months:

Genesee County

• July 6, 228 cases; Aug. 5, 263 cases; Sept. 4, 283 cases; Oct. 5, 232 cases; and Nov. 5, 411 cases.

Orleans County

• July 6, 267 cases; Aug. 5, 280 cases; Sept. 4, 290 cases; Oct. 5, 318 cases; and Nov. 5, 414 cases.

Wyoming County

• July 6, 90 cases; Aug. 5, 110 cases; Sept. 4, 120 cases; Oct. 5, 140 cases; and Nov. 5, 226 cases.

The three counties combined have done 88,747 Covid tests with 1,045 positive for a positivity rate of 1.18 percent.

The positivity rates for the three counties include: