A Steamship Authority employee assigned to the MV Island Home has tested positive for COVID-19, the authority was informed Monday. As a result, the SSA is taking additional preventive steps to ensure the safety of the public and its employees. The positive result is the fifth COVID case involving an SSA employee since Dec. 30. […]
SANDWICH As a leader, you ve got to lead from the front, Sandwich Police Chief Peter Wack said.
Wack was the first person to receive a shot of the Moderna vaccine during a Monday clinic for Upper Cape first responders at the Sandwich Human Services building.
Police and firefighters don’t have the luxury of sequestering themselves during the pandemic, as they routinely enter people’s homes, Wack said.
The goal is to vaccinate “a large majority of the population so we can end this virus once and for all,” the chief said.
Sandwich Assistant Town Manager Heather B. Harper said the clinic dispensed 90 first doses of the two-shot Moderna vaccine Monday. By the end of the day Wednesday, it is expected that 250 first doses will have been delivered.
Mark Forest was only a few hours into his new role as Barnstable County Commissioner when he started getting barraged by constituent questions about the COVID-19 vaccine.
“My phone hasn’t stopped ringing,” Forest said during a meeting of the three Barnstable County commissioners Wednesday.
“We’re getting calls from people who are upset,” said Forest, who was sworn in Monday.
People want to know, “Who do I call? Where do I go?” Forest said.
Under the three-phase vaccination schedule unveiled by Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration Dec. 9, vaccination clinics will start Monday across the state for first responders, who are in group three of phase one.
More COVID-19 testing sites are expected to come online next week as Outer Cape Health Services plans to double the testing hours at its Wellfleet and Provincetown locations and have another site up and running at its Harwich Port clinic.
Outer Cape Health Services expects to be able to offer free rapid tests for asymptomatic people by mid-week, CEO Patricia Nadle said Thursday during a press briefing by the Reopening Cape Cod Task Force.
Expanded testing on the Outer Cape, as well as Hyannis and Falmouth, is an attempt to address what state Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, has called a “testing desert” on Cape Cod.