Board of Aldermen 01-12-2021 Page 6
Attorney Bolton
| think he outranks you, however.
Alderman Lopez
And he has to work in Ward 4.
Attorney Bolton
So please join me in welcoming Jesse and as | say, | think you will be well-served by his tenure here.
Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you Attorney Bolton and welcome Attorney Neumann, we are pleased to have you with the City and
look forward to working with you.
Jesse Neumann, Nashua City Attorney
Thank you very much. | look forward to working with all of you as well.
President Wilshire
Thank you. OK, we are now going to have a Board of Health COVID update. | see we have Dr. Storace,
Dr. Cappetta and Dr. Granok with us. | don’t know if | am missing anyone. | am not sure who might want to
take this?
BOARD OF HEALTH — COVID UPDATE
Bobbie Bagley, Director of Public Health & Community Services
Good Evening Madam President, this is Bobbie Bagley the Director of the Division of Public Health &
Community Services. Thank you for having us in attendance at the Board of Aldermen meeting this
evening. Angela and | are, the City of Nashua Epidemiologist will do a situation update and share
information about the current status of COVID in Nashua with some numbers that are really important for
us to all know about. We are also going to talk about the impact of COVID on our community. And then
afterwards our Members of the Board of Health will also contribute to this information as well.
So Angela is going to start us off with giving us the update on the numbers as of yesterday. We get our
reports out from the State every evening and so these numbers are up-to-date as far as yesterday.
Angela?
Angela Consentino, Epidemiologist
Thank you Bobbie. So this where we stand in regards to Nashua case activity, there are currently 4,644
cumulative cases in Nashua. And of those cases, approximately 563 are currently active and infectious
which means that approximately 87% of Nashua cumulative cases have recovered. We have had four
additional COVID related deaths in Nashua since last week for 60 total deaths and a case fatality rate of
1.2% and our hospitalization rate in Nashua is at 2.4% compared to the State’s rate of 1.7%.
In regards to Community Level Transmission in Nashua, we are currently exceeding 2 out of 3 indicators
that push us into substantial Community Based Transmission. The first indicator is our incidence rate,
which tells us how quickly disease is occurring in the community.
