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Tisbury is no longer a coronavirus red zone , according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. (David Allen/Patch)
MARTHA S VINEYARD, MA Tisbury is no longer at high-risk of COVID-19 transmission due to a decrease in positive cases in the town over the last two weeks, according to Thursday s statistics from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
The town had been labeled as a coronavirus red zone since Jan. 7, meaning that it was at the highest risk of transmission and reported over 25 average daily cases in a population of under 10,000 people for a month.
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Tisbury currently has an average daily incidence rate of 42.8 and a positivity rate of 2.88%, a significant decrease from last week s average daily incidence rate of 66.7 and positivity rate of 4.35%.
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Cyr: We are ready
13,000 over-65 residents attend COVID Task Force phone call Wednesday; Cape has the best infrastructure in the state
Bronwen Howells Walsh
Sen. Julian Cyr (D-Truro) and members of the Cape Cod COVID-19 Task Force on Wednesday reassured 13,000 callers age 65 and up that we are ready to administer vaccines once equipped with proper supply.
Part info session and part pep talk, the state s legislative delegation, Cape Cod Healthcare and Barnstable County officials spent close to 90 minutes detailing plans for county drive-through vaccine clinics running at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis and the Barnstable County Fairgrounds in Falmouth.
By Maddie Kilgannon, Reporter Correspondent
February 3, 2021
Leonard Lee, Sr.
Longtime community organizer Leonard M. Lee Sr., 63, threw his hat in the ring for the District 4 seat that will be left vacant by Andrea Campbell on Wednesday. It s his first time running for office, although he s been politically active for decades.“I get more done by not being a politician than being a politician, he said. I know city councillors who don’t do a third of what I do.”
Lee lives in Dorchester s Melville-Park neighborhood, not far from where former District 4 councillor Charles Yancey, who held the seat from 1983 until he was defeated by Campbell in 2015.
State Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, said hundreds of older Cape Codders do not have access to the internet or computer services that are currently required to book vaccination appointments on the state’s scheduling system.
But now Cape officials know how to contact many of them and offer assistance, Cyr said during a Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force press teleconference Thursday morning.
The individuals came to light during a Wednesday night robocall briefing put on by the task force for Barnstable County residents ages 65 and older.
During the town hall-style phone briefing, 604 people on the line responded by dialing “1” when asked if they lacked internet or computer access at home, Cyr said.