(Jan. 11, 2020) No new coronavirus cases were reported on the island Monday morning, as Nantucket Cottage Hospital s test sites are closed Sunday, and there was only a small backlog of tests awaiting results from the mainland lab used by the hospital.Ten negative results were reported, and three tests conducted in-house Sunday.Seven new coronavirus cases were reported on Nantucket Sunday morning, increasing to 984 the total number of positive tests on the island since mid-March.One
(Jan. 10, 2020) Seven new coronavirus cases were reported on Nantucket Sunday morning, increasing to 984 the total number of positive tests on the island since mid-March.The results were all from Saturday s testing, and included 111 negatives.One coronavirus-positive patient was hospitalized on Nantucket Sunday, and one was transferred off-island for a higher level of care Wednesday. Seventeen patients have been transferred to mainland hospitals since the start of the pandemic.There
(Jan. 9, 2020) Twenty-seven new coronavirus cases were reported on Nantucket Saturday morning, increasing to 977 the total number of positive tests on the island since mid-March.The results included 11 positive tests from Friday, 16 from Thursday, and 279 negatives.One coronavirus-positive patient was hospitalized on Nantucket Friday, and one was transferred off-island for a higher level of care Wednesday. Seventeen patients have been transferred to mainland hospitals since the start of
(Jan. 7, 2021) A new and potentially more contagious variant of COVID-19 – first seen last month in the United Kingdom, first confirmed in the United States on Tuesday, and now assumed by Gov. Charlie Baker to be in Massachusetts – has not yet reached the island.When and if it does, local health officials are hoping that while it is more contagious it is less deadly, and that it is vulnerable to the vaccines now being used.“The new strain seems more contagious, but the good
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