Joint Health & Safety Committee

COVID-19 Update
July 29, 2021
COVID-19 Cases
Confirmed COVID-19 Cases
20 2000
1,775 total cases
Cumulative

15 1500

Cumulative Cases
Daily Cases

10 1000
Rolling 7-day average

5 500

0 0
Mar 1 Apr 1 May 1 Jun 1 Jul 1 Aug 1 Sep 1 Oct 1 Nov 1 Dec 1 Jan 1 Feb 1 Mar 1 Apr 1 May 1 Jun 1 Jul 1

Data as of July 26
Case Investigation & Contact Tracing
• Public Health Nursing Team
• Multiple per diem nurses in Fall/Winter with 3 PT contact tracers in the spring thru June 30
• Contact tracing efforts headed by Mary Fountaine, RN

• Close relationship with Contact Tracing Collaborative (CTC)

• CTC ending in September, currently focused on hand-off of Higher Education contact tracing to LBOH

• Close relationship with Needham Public School Nurses & Contact Tracer
• Work with the schools to notify families of a contact exposure and provide quarantine/isolation requirements

Over the past 3 months (May-July), Needham Public Health Contact

Tracing team has investigated
• 46 confirmed/probable cases
• Referred one case to CTC after unable to contact
• Contacts only investigated for symptomatic or unvaccinated
cases → very few contacts in recent months
• Most contacts are household contacts/linked household cases, or
non-Needham contacts (travel related)
• 2 clusters

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Current
• July 1 through July 27:
Caselist
Trends in Needham cases:
Most cases related to travel
- No Connections to Provincetown
Most cases are vaccine breakthrough
- Mild/Moderate symptoms
Minimal household transmission
- 2 household transmissions
- multi-case households were likely to
have been exposed at the same time
• 20 confirmed cases, 1 probable
• 18 contacted directly
• Of those 18:
• 15 cases related to travel
• Case traveled
• Case visited with travelers
• 11 cases fully vaccinated
• 3 ineligible due to age
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 COVID-19 Cases by Age
400
N=360
350 65+ 50-64
35-49 19-34 Overall Age Breakdown
300 July 2021 cases to date:
5-18 0-4 0-4
25% are ≤18 years old 4%
Number of Cases

65+
250 21% 5-18
95% are <65 years old 22%
200 N=184 N=187
Average
case age:
150 50-64 42.2
19% 19-34
N=102 17%
100
35-49
17%
50
N=19 N=20
N=3
0
Jan 2021 Feb 2021 Mar 2021 Apr 2021 May 2021 Jun 2021 Jul 2021

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Vaccine Uptake
• Almost all eligible Needham residents are fully vaccinated (appx. 16% of town pop is <12 years old)
• Vast majority of vaccinated adults have completed vaccine series (if two-dose vaccine)
• MA reports >95% of all eligible age groups have received at least one dose
100%
At least one dose
8,000
Partially vaccinated individuals
n=25,206
90% 84% 85% 86%
86% 86% 86% Fully vaccinated individuals
82% 83% 7,000
79% 78% 78% 78% 79%
77%
80%
74%
75% 74% 441
71% 72% 73% 353
69% Fully vaccinated 6,000
70% 66% 67%
64% n=22,984

Residents vaccinated
60% 60%
60% 5,000
52% 53%
48%
50% 46%
43% 4,000
41%
36% 38%
40%
32% 32% 6,252
3,000 6,057
28% 206
30% 24% 229
21% 250
20% 17% 2,000
543 197
2,760 2,561
10% 2,217
1,000
1,513 1,622
0%
-
12-15 16-19 20-29 30-49 50-64 65-74 75+ Years
Years Years Years Years Years Years

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Data as of 7/23/21
 Vaccine Uptake Among Youth
% Fully Vaccinated
100%
• Children 12 years and older became 16-19 years
eligible for Pfizer vaccine on May 12 87% 87% 88% 88%

(second doses starting June 2) 80% 81%

78% 78% 78% 79%
80% 77%
• Nearly 375 missed second doses among Total
70% 78%
12-15 year olds (haven’t gotten 2nd dose 67% 73%
74%
74%
76%
64% 72% 72%
within 4 weeks of receiving 1st; data 69%
66%
reporting lags possible) 60%

56% 12-15 years

COVID-19 among
school-aged children 40%
(5-18 years) 40%

32%
395 cases
20%
22% of Needham’s
16%
confirmed cases
0% 0% 0%
0%
May 20 May 27 June 3 June 10 June 17 June 24 July 1 July 8 July 15 July 22

Data as of 7/23/21
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