Oceanside remains moderately hard-hit by Covid-19

In the coronavirus crisis, Oceanside is among Nassau County’s moderately high-impacted areas with 475 confirmed cases as of Tuesday.

That’s according to the county information technology department’s Positive Cases by Community map. This makes Oceanside the seventeenth hardest-hit out of more than 130 neighborhoods listed.

Of Oceanside’s bordering towns, Baldwin is the most impacted with 571 cases and 185 additional cases in Baldwin Harbor. Oceanside’s other neighboring communities, Rockville Centre, East Rockaway, Bay Park and Barnum Isle, have a combined total of 540 cases.

The news comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced 933 new Covid-19 cases in New York and 306 deaths due to the virus during his daily briefing on Thursday.

“That’s a tremendous amount of pain and grief for hundreds and hundreds of New Yorkers who lost a loved one,” he said.

Cuomo added that reopening of businesses would be “based on numbers and data, not politics or emotions.”

Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside has been battling the virus for over a month now. As of April 30, the hospital was treating 175 Covid-19 patients, with 35 on ventilators. Those numbers are down significantly since the hospital peaked at 383 Covid-19 patients on April 13.

Hospital officials are urging the public to stay vigilant with social distancing, because it is producing results to decrease cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

Last week the hospital also celebrated the 600th discharge of a coronavirus patient, 19-year-old Bianca Jimenez, of Rockaway Beach, Queens. "I'm very excited to get home, and so glad I got through this," Jimenez said.

Community members and local businesses have been showing continuous support for the frontline workers at Mount Sinai South Nassau with encouraging signs, letters, food deliveries and a car parade.

“We’re incredibly grateful for the community’s support,” said Joe Calderone, the hospital’s vice president of corporate communications. “Businesses have just been phenomenal. It sends a great morale boost.”