Boston University publishes its COVID-19 testing data on a public-facing dashboard. Gloria Waters, BU vice president and associate provost for research,.
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BROCKTON After nearly five months in the high-risk COVID-19 red, Brockton has dropped back to the yellow, at moderate risk for the coronavirus, as of Thursday evening.
But that changed Thursday evening when the latest weekly report was released.
Brockton averaged 24.8 new COVID-19 cases per day per 100,000 residents from Feb. 14 to 27, which is the period used to calculate the data in Thursday s report. That remains well above the 10 cases per day per 100,000 people that would put a community with over 100,000 residents into the red, but the risk assessment also takes test positivity rate into account.
Over the last two weeks, 3.78 percent of Brockton residents who were tested for COVID-19 were found to be positive.
Vaccine Rollout in Massachusetts Continues Its Rocky Pace
Taking Shots
Rob Whitten, executive director of the Leavitt Family Jewish Home, gets vaccinated in January. For the public, the process has been thornier.
February was the month all seniors in Massachusetts would finally be able to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Instead, it was a month of frustration.
“It’s simply inexcusable, in a state with the healthcare infrastructure and high-tech reputation we have, that the vaccine rollout was allowed to fall behind every other state so quickly,” state Sen. Eric Lesser told BusinessWest, calling the state’s scheduling website “an obstacle course with all these links and hoops to go through, instead of making it simple, like Travelocity or KAYAK or Open Table.”