One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, statistics show that it has hit Cape Cod hard, with a case-fatality rate higher than the state average and a second wave of winter deaths that peaked higher than last year s spring surge.
The Cape’s older-than-average population likely has played a role in those death rates, said Vaira Harik, deputy director of the Barnstable County Department of Human Services.
“Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the recognition of the first COVID case in Massachusetts,” she noted.
Statistics for year one of the pandemic show the case-fatality rate for Barnstable County on Cape Cod is 4% meaning 4% of people who were confirmed to have COVID-19 died compared to the state’s case fatality rate of 2.8%, Harik said.
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Cape Cod legislators continue to push Governor Charles D. Baker Jr. to increase the allocation of COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Cape to help vaccinate its aging population.