73 cases in the city since last weekly DPH report
WCVB and Taunton Gazette Staff
BOSTON The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported an additional 1,589 confirmed COVID-19 cases Thursday, bringing the statewide total to 563,983 since the start of the pandemic.
Since Mass. DPH s last weekly public health report, there have been 73 COVID cases in Taunton, a slight jump from the last weekly total of 69. The running two-week case count is 151, and there have been a total of 5,259 cases in the city since the pandemic began.
The city remains at Yellow, or moderate, risk for COVID-19, with an average daily incidence rate of 18.7 per 100,000. Taunton s positivity rate is 3.10%.
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In Massachusetts, outbreak specialists track COVID-19 clusters
Posted on Mar 12, 2021
During a global pandemic, an infection can happen anywhere a church, a car wash, a grocery store. But not every setting ends up spreading the virus far and wide.
That’s why Bridget Hanna spends her days looking at maps. For Hanna, an outbreak specialist with the Epidemic Intelligence Unit, these maps of Massachusetts towns don’t just give directions they tell stories.
“Every COVID case is connected,” she says. “Which is to say, at a basic level, that everybody got it from someone else. But most people will get it from somebody who gave it to a couple of people. And that’s what really makes it a cluster.”
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FALL RIVER An effort is under way to establish a collaborative quartet of regional COVID-19 vaccine sites in Bristol County.
Three of the sites would operate one day a week. The fourth would administer vaccine doses on two separate weekdays.
The proposal made to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health would provide regional vaccination sites in Taunton, Fall River, Somerset and Attleboro.
More than 1,550 Bristol residents have died since the advent of the pandemic a year ago, according to state health officials.
Taunton Mayor Shaunna O’Connell issued a statement Wednesday citing the collaboration between her office and that of Fall River Health and Human Services Director Tess Curran.