FRAMINGHAM Framingham now has more active cases of COVID-19 than at any point during the city’s spring surge.
On Friday, the city announced that it had logged 135 new cases of the coronavirus and one new death since Wednesday.
Framingham now has 934 active cases of COVID-19. The highest number of active cases in the city during the spring surge was 843, according to a Daily News tracker.
A Thursday report from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health again placed Framingham in the red zone, a label given to communities at the highest risk of coronavirus spread.
Under the current metrics, municipalities of Framingham s size are considered to be in the red zone if they average 10 or more cases per 100,000 people daily over the prior two weeks and have a test positivity rate of 4% or higher.
Experience in early hotspots shows need for collaboration, coordination
Bruce Walker, the Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Professor of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and co-director of MassCPR, gave a brief overview of the unprecedented, rapid development of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, noting that many have wondered how the vaccines can have been developed so quickly without compromising safety.
“The answers to that are not due to cutting corners but really to tremendous scientific advances and to some decisions that were made early on to accelerate those aspects that could be safely accelerated,” said Walker, who is director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard. He noted that advances in genetic sequencing and unprecedented scientific collaborations hastened the speed of vaccine development.
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Social justice, health equity, and antiracism, are foundational frameworks for public health, says Craig Andrade (SPH’06,11).
An alum of the MPH and DrPH programs, Andrade returned to the School of Public Health in June as the associate dean for practice and director of the Activist Lab, taking the reins from Harold Cox, associate professor of community health sciences, who had served in both positions for 14 years (page 56).
Andrade assumed his new role exactly one week after the Memorial Day death of George Floyd sparked a national reckoning with systemic racism, fueling international protests against police brutality and invigorating the Black Lives Matter movement all amidst an unprecedented pandemic that continues to disproportionately impact Black lives.