O-21-083
ORDINANCE
RELATIVE TO REQUIRING FACE COVERINGS THROUGH JANUARY 31, 2022
CITY OF NASHUA
In the Year Two Thousand and Twenty One
Whereas, the Nashua Board of Health provided the following statement:
Relevant statistics as of December 14, 2021, comparing the change over the prior 2 weeks.
Nationwide:
e Cases of Covid-19 are up 47%
e Hospitalizations are up 21%
e Deaths are up 40%
This is all despite just a 1% increase in testing. And New Hampshire, along with Rhode Island,
leads the country in cases per capita.
Gene sequencing has showed that the Omicron variant has arrived in New Hampshire, and we
have verified that Covid-19 tests do not cross-react with either the flu virus or the common cold,
even in the face of the Omicron variant. A positive Covid-19 test means Covid-19. To date,
799, 000 Americans have died of Covid-19. Many more have been left with disabilities due to
the ravages of serious Covid-19 infection. We have come to learn this virus has killed 1 of every
415 Americans.
We are setting records with the number of cases seen here in New Hampshire, Greater Nashua
and the City of Nashua. There is an increasing number of cases in those who are unvaccinated.
Our local hospitals are reporting 60%-80% of patients are unvaccinated and very ill. In addition,
our hospitals are over capacity, having to stand up temporary ICU beds, and they are facing
significant staffing issues, so much so, that Governor Sununu activated the National Guard to
assist the hospitals in providing care.
Multiple scientific analysis and projections show that we are headed for a substantial increase in
illness and hospitalizations due to a triple threat: the overwhelming presence of the highly
contagious and deadly Delta variant, flu season and the even more contagious Omicron variant.
This does not even take into account the uptick in non-Covid-19 illness due to pandemic delays
in care and testing.
ORDINANCE O-22-083
