The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have 22 new cases of COVID-19. The number of active cases being reported today is nine more than yesterday, from which it can be inferred that since yesterday twelve county residents have recovered from the virus. The number of county residents in mandatory quarantine remains the same as yesterday, as does the number hospitalized and in the ICU. There has not been a death from COVID-19 in Columbia County since Thursday, August 19.
A year ago today, the CCDOH reported 1 new case of COVID-19. The total number of cases was 535, and the number of active cases was 4. There were 38 county residents in mandatory quarantine, 2 were hospitalized, and none was in the ICU. The total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 at this time last year was 37.
Its closer proximity to points south may explain Dutchess County's typically higher infection rates, but the dependably higher rates in Berkshire County with whom we share our longest terrestrial boundary may be explained by our neighbor's appallingly low vaccination rates.
ReplyDeleteBut what can explain the low vaccination rates for every age group in one of the most affluent counties in the nation?
Is anyone even discussing this, or is our disdain for the behavioral aspects of the pandemic exclusive to special interest groups? Notice that vaccine-reticent African-Americans also get a pass despite their high percentages compared with other groups.
I make no judgement on the varied decision-making of any of these groups, but I despise the pandemic of selective judgement and open hypocrisy which is so often displayed in these threads.
And if a payment of $300 was offered to all that are not vaccinated to get a vaccine the numbers would change drastically.
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