A COVID-19 update

COVID-19 Community Testing

358,330 Tests since March 21 | 47,036 Tests in past 14 days2 Tests administered to Cambridge residents at any health care or city site. Testing offered 7 days a week, starting Nov. 9.

Sites in East Cambridge, Harvard Square, North

Cambridge, and The Port. 40,353 tests administered since April. ○4,725 from Dec 1 - Dec 6 ○Additional site added Nov. 23 and Nov. 30 to accommodate increased demand.

ALL TESTING SITES

CITY-FUNDED TESTING PROGRAM

1Testing period March 2-Nov. 28, 2020; 2Testing period Nov 15-28, 2020.

COVID-19 Community Testing

Additional “Hot Spot” Testing

CPHD will provide on-site testing at Fresh Pond

Apartments (Rindge Towers):

Working with ProEMS and Cambridge Fire Department

on dates and times (likely to begin next week). Cambridge Community Corps will go door-to-door in advance to let residents know and encourage testing (as they did in the Port neighborhood last week and over the weekend). No appointments necessary; testing will be for Towers residents only.

University Update: Spring 2021

Harvard University:

Classes will be taught remotely;< 50% of undergraduates invited to live on campus (approx. 3,000 students) No more than 1 student/dorm room Specific housing set for isolation and quarantine Resident staff and students tested every 3 days No spring break MIT: Freshman, sophomores, and juniors invited to return Graduate students and research continue as in the fall No spring break No winter athletic activities

Cambridge Wastewater

Sampling Sites

COVID-19 Testing in K-12

Schools CPS staff are being tested twice a week, on a voluntary basis, as part of a CPHD surveillance program. Testing is also offered to symptomatic students who become ill at school.

6,833 Tests

Tests administered to CPS

staff through the voluntary testing program since Oct. 15 (as of Dec. 7)

6X Median number of times a CPS staff member has gotten tested through the program since Oct. 15 Data reflect Oct. 15- Dec. 7 1,050 Staff Tested Total # of CPS staff who have been tested through the voluntary testing program since Oct. 15 73 students

Symptomatic CPS students

who have been tested through the program since Oct. 15

Cambridge Public Schools Metrics

Metrics that exceed recommended thresholds are displayed as orange 0.77%

Percentage of positive COVID-19

tests among Cambridge residents in last 14 days ending Nov. 28.

Threshold: <5% of COVID-19

tests among residents are positive.

Below Threshold

26.9 7-day average of new confirmed cases per day, per 100,000 people in Cambridge, ending Dec. 5.

Threshold: < 25 new confirmed cases per day, per 100,000 people (7- day average)

Above Threshold

658.5 Level of COVID-19 found in sewage wastewater in MWRA, as of 12/3/20.

Threshold: COVID-19 in wastewater detected at less than 100 copies viral genomes/mL

Above Threshold

COVID-19 Vaccine Update

The CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Playbook outlines three

phases for vaccine distribution: Phase 1: Potentially limited supply of vaccine doses Dec. 1: CDC officially adopts ACIP recommendations for vaccination distribution to "highest priority" populations: 21 million health-care workers and 3 million residents/staff of LTCs.

Dec 7: Commonwealth's COVID-19 vaccine order submitted to CDC:

CDC expected to send 300,000 doses by end of December (first dose of a two-dose regimen) Includes 59,475 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for first shipment Phase 2: Large number of vaccine doses available Phase 3: Sufficient/surplus supply of vaccine doses for entire population