Created: July 23, 2021 06:57 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) This week we re averaging about 25% more new daily COVID cases than we were a month ago in Monroe County, that s according to
But, why? To find out, News10NBC s Emily Putnam spoke with the head of infectious diseases from Rochester Regional Health Dr. Emil Lesho about the rise in cases. Usually the sequence goes more infections, more hospitalizations, then the last thing you see are the deaths, Lesho said. We haven t seen that yet. what we re seeing is increased positive testing.
From June 15 to June 21 we averaged 15 new cases per day. From July 15 to July 21, we re averaging 22 new cases per day.