Martha’s Vineyard has had 1,000 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began — 943 confirmed cases through testing and 57 probable cases, according to a report from the Island boards of health.
There was one new case of COVID-19 at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital on Tuesday. The hospital has now administered 14,662 tests with 667 positive results. There have been 13,946 negative tests and there are 41 results pending. There is still one person hospitalized, according to the hospital website.
Meanwhile, TestMV, which is located in the parking lot at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, has now administered 34,870 tests with 260 positive cases, 34,141 negative results, and 469 tests are pending.
The town of Aquinnah has conducted 442 tests, of which one has come back positive, 441 negative, and 0 pending results.
The Martha’s Vineyard public schools have administered 6,976 tests. Of those, four have tested positive. The public school data is updated once a week on Mondays, and for the second week in a row there were no new cases in the schools.
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has reported a total of seven positive cases of COVID-19.
Due to how tests are conducted, there can be a discrepancy between the number of positive individuals and the number of positive tests reported.
Meanwhile, vaccinations continue on the Island. On Thursday 250 school employees received doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. The hospital has now administered 8,046 doses of the vaccine with nearly 70 percent of them first doses.
At the state level there were 1,004 new confirmed cases Monday. The state estimates there are 26,502 active cases and the state’s seven day average of percent positivity is at 1.67 percent. There were also 30 new deaths Sunday for a total of 16,311 since last March of 2020.
Updated with Tuesday’s numbers.
Honestly, at this point does anyone really care? It’s over folks, time to move on.
John Axel, some of them want to keep us in fear. Its all about control while they spend and tax and bail out states who have mismanaged for years. They dont want you to disagree with them and they wont tolerate dissent–not on Covid not on Climate Change, not on freedom. This has all the earmarks of soft totalitarianism that we had in Eastern Europe 60 years ago. We will see more of this from Nancy and Kamala.
And your comments have all the earmarks of conservative denial of science that has brought us to the brink of climate disaster and denial that the Reaganaut breaking of the social contract that fueled our growth from 1950-1975 has caused a concentration of obscene wealth to levels not seen since the 1920’s that is now imperiling our nation.
Mr Farnam so now you want equity in wealth while agonizing over climate disaster–really? A disaster? And too many rich people are imperilling our nation? What island do you live on?
Andrew– a pretty full bag of conspiracy theories there.. Who is “they” ?
One thousand cases just on our little island. Who would have ever predicted that number just a year ago ?
So reporting that there have been 1,000 cases on the island is somehow keeping us in fear ?
Do you want to “cancel” the reporting of truth ?
John– it seems the editor here “cancelled” my first comment to you.. So I will try again, and not personally insult you for your callous, insensitive and dismissive post.
John–Tell that to the families of the 785 people who died of covid in the United States yesterday.
Tell that to the 7,304,000 people who are currently infected with covid in the United States.
Tell that to the 9,286 people who are at this moment in serious or critical condition with covid in a hospital in the United States. And while you are at , tell their families and friends that it’s over.
It is far from over. (insults deleted)
Thinking it’s over and no longer anything to care about is why it’s not over. That, and the fact that we had an idiot in power telling people it would just disappear— and fools believed his lies.
Get your vaccine when you’re eligible and medically okay for it, wear your mask in public, even if you’ve been vaccinated, wash your hands, and don’t gather in large groups, particularly indoors. When and if everyone does this, it will be over— when we have herd immunity. It is your civic duty to care and recognize that this is not over.
Meanwhile, islanders are doing great at keeping numbers way down.
Yes, people care. People who would die if they contact Covid. People who love the people who would die if they contact Covid. People who can not afford a lengthy hospital stay. People who would like to have a job where they are not in danger of contacting Covid, because they have another condition as well. Ask any person who has lost a loved one to covid, There are many people who care.
John Axel and Andrew Engelman, I suppose you’ll be rejecting your stimulus payments. Please let us know.
Yo…it’s not over and you will see that about two weeks after spring break is over because of selfish people with too much money. The only dissent that is intolerable to us libtards is the dissent of ignorance. People who don’t believe in science should keep their mouths shut. And it’s the government’s responsibility to take care of Americans. If you find this oppressive maybe you need to take a civics course.
I’m one of those people with too much money, well not really, but I wish. Enjoyed Florida last month and heading down again next month. I don’t live in fear. I appreciate that some people are afraid of life and I encourage them to stay indoors, pretty much forever . Life is dangerous. Enjoy it as you will but leave me alone.
John Axel. I am in florida, one of the 5 freest states that people are fleeing to. No stimulus payment for me either. Giving away 1.9 trillion when the Covid is going away is dumb. Shutting down this country was foolish when they should have concentrated on those really vulnerable. Government doesnt do anything well and science doesnt speak, only people do and they always have an agenda.
Well, yes, it’s true– the rich will not get a stimulous check because they don’t need it. Giving a financial boost to those most impacted financially by the pademic is not dumb, it is decent. And many governments around the world shut down businesses which helped control the virus, but people, not governments, are stupid and selfish. (Although, nothing was more stupid than the Trump administration that lied to the American public.) But people had the information from science and experts and many, like you all last year, chose to minimize the actual risks. People often cannot be patient and do what’s best for all if it means giving up personal gratification for a limited time. As far as the right-wing paranoid talking point of “some of them want to keep us in fear”, it is the rational fear of a deadly illness that drives people, even people like you, to get their vaccines. If you weren’t afraid of getting sick and spreading disease, why else would you brag in these pages from Florida that you’d been vaccinated before any of us? Why get a vaccine at all if you are not afraid of Covid? Of course you were afraid of illness and death, being in the elderly vulnerable category especially. Now that you’re vaccinated, you’re no longer afraid, but dismiss any “fear” that “they” are trying to instill? If you think that your boasts of other people being frightened by facts of science and truth, while you once were but no longer are, you make yourself look rather foolish and disingenuous. Why would anyone get the vaccine if they did not understand the devastation to so many if we do not get this virus under control, once and for all? By the way, your brag of living in a “free” state is also rather foolish as Spring Break vacationers bring home to other states more covid. This will never be over thanks to the selfish and stupid. “Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.”
The terminology surrounding “cases” is still confusing.
A positive PCR test result is not a case of Covid-19.
The PCR test was not designed as a diagnostic test. It was designed to detect minute bits of viruses of various sorts, bits that can be present when there is no illness. This has been widely discussed in the media. Why are we still getting numbers of “cases” based on positive PCR tests, when the huge proportion of false positives has been widely discussed? Or are these other tests? It has been widely discussed that the results of PCR tests are quite meaningless unless (1) the number of cycles needed to detect some viral fragments of SARS-CoV-2 or perhaps another virus bit is specified, and (2) if illness is suspected, that actual examination and other diagnostic tests be done to establish and actual diagnosis of the disease of covid-19.
Most of this story seems to be about testing and test results:
“Martha’s Vineyard has had 1,000 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began — 943 confirmed cases through testing and 57 probable cases, according to a report from the Island boards of health.”
How many actual diagnosed cases of covid-19 have there been on the Island in the past year? How many hospitalizations for covid-19? In what age groups? How many deaths?
Thanks.
Still eagerly waiting for the specific info requested.
Surely that info has been tabulated and is available.
We’d have better luck waiting for an answer from the mayor of Amity Island.
Herd immunity?
Over 350 million people in the USA….?
Hmm wonder how long herd immunity would take..?
What would be the assumed percentage of deaths.?
Is that acceptable.?
As a ham radio operator (N1CAK), I spend a lot of time speaking with people across Cape Cod and in North America. Many of them brag of having gotten on the ferry and traveling to Martha’s Vineyard to get their Covid-19 vaccines. When I got online at 8:00AM on Saturdays and 5:00PM on Mondays, I thought I was competing with my fellow Islanders for shots. Now I find out that the pool of applicants includes Cape Codders. Those who are a little more ethical are driving to the old Circuit City store in Dartmouth where the state has set up a mass vaccination site. Why can’t the hospital require either proof of residency on the Island or at least proof of a seasonal home on the Vineyard? If anyone reading this is so inclined, please ask the powers that be at the hospital these questions or make the suggestion. It shouldn’t be like the universal requirement to treat anyone at the Emergency Room.
It is not unethical to go to any state designated vaccine site for your covid vaccine, although I can understand it can feel that way to us on-island. Our hospital has no control over this. Playing the online game of trying to outdo someone else for an appointment is awful, I agree, but it is only a matter of weeks to have to keep trying your luck, not months, so please be patient and keep trying. You WILL get an appointment. And thank you for understanding the importance of getting vaccinated. I cheer at every shot that goes into an arm because we are all the better for it.
Christopher.
There are plenty of islanders who have gone off island to get their shots.
Do you really think that islanders are some kind of special caste ?
We are all Citizens of the United States. The people you are talking about are residents of Mass. We don’t have “island privilege” here.
They accept people from the island on the cape and anywhere else in the country, actually.
You could even go to Florida; one of “the 5 freest states in the country” , according to Andrew, and get your covid shot there. Since Andrew got his a while ago, they must be readily available– just walk into a cvs or some other big drug store chain and get it. They won’t ask for proof of residency. You wouldn’t even have to wear a mask while getting it.
And then you can go to a packed beach and soak up some sunshine while sipping on a margarita. Why wait ?