Medfield’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard has been updated with case and testing data as of 1/28/2021. Medfield remains in the yellow category and has a case count of 70 cases over the last 14 days.
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| January 29, 2021 03:24 PM Medfield’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard has been updated with case and testing data as of 1/28/2021. Medfield remains in the yellow category and has a case count of 70… Read on Click here to open the dashboard. |
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Look for the new signs, and think about upgrading your mask –
Really helpful article in the Globe today about masks – https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/27/business/you-need-better-mask-heres-how-find-buy-one/
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Q: Cloth masks are relatively inexpensive. How much do some of these upgrades cost?
Srikrishna: The Envo mask, which I personally have been using quite a bit and fits like a sleep apnea mask, is $79. It’s reusable for three to four months and has replacement filters for $2, and is now sold with a valve cover. 3M’s Elastomeric mask costs about $30 and has filters for $7 or $8, and these may last up to a year. The Fire Department of New York is using them. SoftSeal masks have a gel seal but are still disposable, and they cost between $7 and $16. And Fix The Mask is a flexible brace or harness that you put over a regular surgical mask and it forms a tight seal and provides a really good fit throughout the face. They cost about $15 each.
As vaccines become available to people, my mind necessarily turned to when can I get it. The NN Chamber of Commerce newsletter today (a copy of the email appears below) had a good explanation of vaccines and when we might be eligible. I especially found this “new searchable map” helpful, as it connects to the state’s website with all the vaccine data and explanation.
Good morning friends,
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
So when Gov. Charlie Baker announced yesterday that he was moving residents 65 or older up on the COVID vaccination priority list, it meant pushing back workers in grocery, restaurants, transit, sanitation, public works, public health workers and K-12 teachers who had been next in line.
Just how much of a delay that creates for those who thought they were next depends on how much vaccine is in the federal pipeline.
Starting Monday (Feb. 1), residents 75 and older are eligible to be vaccinated as the second phase opens; followed by those 65-plus; then those listed above and in the vocations listed here; and then individuals with one comorbidity.
Everyone else is in phase 3, scheduled to start in April, although that’s subject to change.
Baker also promised to accelerate the state’s distribution infrastructure in the coming weeks, adding dozens of new vaccine sites by mid-February, for a total of seven mass vaccination sites and 165 overall.
A new searchable map and online tool will make it possible for anyone needing a shot to schedule an appointment once eligible.
Massachusetts ranks in the bottom half of the 50 states when it comes to number of vaccine doses administered per capita according to federal data, and lags behind all other New England states, despite having what the state often touts as the best healthcare system in the world, notes Sarah Betancourt at CommonWealth.
Just over 360,000 of the state’s 5.8 million adults have been given at least a first-dose, leaving 5.44 million more.
Medfield’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard has been updated with case and testing data as of 1/21/2021. Medfield remains in the yellow category and has a case count of 82 cases over the last 14 days.
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| January 22, 2021 01:23 PM Medfield’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard has been updated with case and testing data as of 1/21/2021. Medfield remains in the yellow category and has a case count of 82… Read on Click here to open the dashboard. |
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January 15, 2021 12:48 PM
Medfield’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard has been updated with case and testing data as of 1/14/2021. Medfield remains in the yellow category and has a case count of 74… Read on
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Still time to make a 2020 donation to the Mfi
Below is the first ever Medfield Foundation annual appeal, that went to about 3,300 homes. If you want to donate for 2020, just date your check today, or contribute on-line at https://www.medfieldfoundation.org/give.
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Medfield’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard has been updated with case and testing data as of 12/10. Medfield remains in the yellow category and has a case count of 46 cases over the last 14 days.
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| December 11, 2020 01:51 PM Medfield’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard has been updated with case and testing data as of 12/10. Medfield remains in the yellow category and has a case count of 46… Read on Click here to open the dashboard. |
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The Supreme Judicial Court this morning shared its decision, Desrosiers v. The Governor, quoted from below –
CYPHER, J. On March 10, 2020, Governor Charles D. Baker,
Jr., declared a state of emergency in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts in response to the pandemic arising from COVID-19,
a respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus. See
Governor’s Declaration of Emergency, Executive Order No. 591.
He did so under the Civil Defense Act (CDA), St. 1950, c. 639,
and G. L. c. 17, § 2A. . .
In June 2020, the plaintiffs5 filed a complaint in the
Superior Court, seeking declaratory judgment and injunctive
relief and challenging the Governor’s declaration of a state of
emergency and the emergency orders as unauthorized and
unconstitutional. . .
We conclude that the CDA provides authority for the
Governor’s March 10, 2020, declaration of a state of emergency
in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and for the issuance of the
subsequent emergency orders; the emergency orders do not violate art. 30 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights; and the
emergency orders do not violate the plaintiffs’ Federal or State
constitutional rights to procedural and substantive due process
or free assembly.
Read Melissa Coughlin’s full Medfield Patch article here https://patch.com/massachusetts/medfield/help-covid-19-relief-medfield-residents
Melissa is both a nurse at a downtown hospital and a member of the Town of Medfield’s Board of Health. The Board of Health has been providing our town historically unprecedented, diligent services this past year because of COVID-19.
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November 20, 2020 9:50 AM
Medfield’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard has been updated with case and testing data as of 11/19. Medfield remains in the yellow category and has a case count of 35 cases over the last 14 days.
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