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Wellesley has first case of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant; Health Dept. readies to vaccinate homebound residents

February 17, 2021 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

Wellesley’s COVID-19 numbers are generally heading in the right direction (with the exception of a spike at Babson College), though the town has reported its first case of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant initially discovered in the U.K.

Ann Marie McCauley, the town’s public health nurse supervisor, said during the Feb. 17 Board of Health meeting that discovery of the B.1.1.7 case “is not surprising” and that it appears to have been community-acquired (not from traveling). The B.1.1.7 variant could be more deadly than other variants, U.K. scientists say, based on early evidence.

The other concerning COVID news in Wellesley is at Babson College, which has seen a spike in cases and has gone full-remote for 48 hours to try to help contain things.

warren building rec health departmentWellesley health and town officials said they just had a good meeting with Wellesley College, which has managed to largely contain COVID-19 from spreading on its campus. Students have returned for the new semester after self-administering swab tests at home, and school officials have said that students will not be allowed to work off-campus to help protect against the virus. The school has also decided not to have its usual year-end in-person activities on campus, so there will be no swell of alumni and parents arriving in the spring—an additional hit for local businesses.

On a positive note, the town finishes up second doses for first responders this week.

Separately, a fresh message from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has made clear to the Wellesley Health Department and those from other communities that the state is largely not relying on local health department personnel to physically get the COVID-19 vaccine into people’s arms. Rather, the state is focused on distributing the vaccine through mass vaccination sites and pharmacies, reserving local health clinics for communities at the highest risk from the virus.

Wellesley health officials are frustrated they can’t play a bigger role in distributing the vaccine since their staff has prepared for such public health needs.

Health departments in Wellesley and other communities will be relied upon to administer vaccines in public housing and identify at-risk seniors so as to administer vaccines to homebound residents. The state, meanwhile, is opening vaccines to those age 65-plus as well as for those with two or more certain medical conditions.

Wellesley’s Health Department is working to collaborate with the Council on Aging, police, fire, Wellesley Housing Authority, and other groups within town who can help to identify truly homebound residents eligible for vaccine house calls. Wellesley Health Director Lenny Izzo says he’s worried about people claiming to be homebound who really aren’t, so the Health Department will need to take a close look at parameters from the state defining this status.

Questions to be addressed include whether others who live with a homebound person would also be vaccinated at that time, and whether volunteers who would watch over homebound persons immediately after they are vaccinated would need to get vaccinated, too.

The timing for homebound vaccinations remains to be determined.


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5 takeaways from Wellesley Board of Health meeting: Latest on vaccines, school dashboard, mental health, falling COVID-19 numbers & Babson help

February 9, 2021 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

Wellesley’s Board of Health meeting on Monday, Feb. 8 covered a host of issues, and not surprisingly vaccines were the No. 1 topic:

Vaccines—Lenny Izzo, director of community and public health, once again put in a request for up to 100 doses of vaccine that the Health Department could dispense at clinics for those age 75-plus and others eligible under the state’s Phase 1 and Phase 2 A, and once again was denied by the state. Wellesley is not alone in having this happen, as the state continues to have less supply from the federal government than there is demand. “It’s got nothing to do with us, it’s totally in the state’s hands at this point,” said Izzo, whose staff fielded many calls, emails, and texts over the weekend from members of the public trying to understand the vaccine system.

Board Vice-Chair Dr. Marcia Testa Simonson urged people not to panic about the current state of vaccine distribution, and explained that one reason most local health departments aren’t being supplied with vaccine is that doing so would make “the supply chain and distribution extremely complicated…it’s much easier to send 10,000 vaccines to a general location than to send them to 351 health departments.”

The Health Department plans to continue putting out messaging to the public to address concerns and confusion.

The town this week will be giving a second dose of the vaccine to first responders, as well as a first dose to 40 first responders who weren’t vaccinated the first time around. Izzo says he’s curious to learn about the reactions those getting the second dose might have, and is prepping messaging to help seniors and other residents know what to expect (for example, you might want to stock up on groceries BEFORE you get the second dose in case you don’t feel well after getting it). “I don’t know of many that have gotten out with no symptoms,” he says.

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Nurses Ashley Denton (l) and Krisann Miller (r) prepping the COVID-19 vaccine for first responders getting 2nd dose. Photo courtesy of Wellesley Health Dept.

 

Health Department officials lauded the Council on Aging and its volunteers for helping seniors in town get registered for vaccinations. More than 100 families and more than 200 appointments were made over the past week, they said, and volunteers continue to be trained in anticipation for people age 65-plus being eligible for vaccinations in the near future. There could be a role for local religious organizations in supporting people who need help registering for vaccines, Board of Health Chair Shep Cohen said.

Wellesley Public Schools Supt. Dr. David Lussier sought any updates on when teachers might be eligible for vaccination, but they’re still in line behind those age 65-plus and those with two or more of certain medical conditions. The Board of Health promised that Lussier and team would be the first to know once the Health Department knows.

Schools—Supt. Lussier is hoping to update the school’s COVID-19 reopening dashboard this week, but the school department still needs to meet with the teachers’ union. The new dashboard would be more heavily focused on local metrics rather than state and regional ones to help the administration make decisions regarding in-person and remote school attendance. Next week’s February break, meanwhile, makes for tense times in terms of possible COVID-19 spread.

Mental health chat—Wellesley Health Department social workers are hosting a  chat about community mental health for parents of adolescents and young adults. It’s planned for Friday, Feb. 12 from 1-2 p.m. and interested participants should email Joyce Saret directly at [email protected]

COVID-19 numbers—Ann Marie McCauley, the town’s public health nurse supervisor, is encouraged by falling case numbers in town. She says the average number of cases per day has fallen from 14 to 9.4 to 7.1 over the past few weeks. “It’s wonderful…I’m just worried about the Super Bowl and school vacation week,” she said.

Babson offers help—The Wellesley Health Department met with Babson reps last week and Babson has let the town know it wants to help however it can in the event, for example, that the town is able to access more vaccine and distribute it in bigger numbers. This could entail using Babson facilities, volunteers, storage, and more, Izzo said.

Wellesley College will be providing the town with an update this week as its next semester begins.


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Wellesley to residents: Let’s not get physical (unless you’re playing football)

February 2, 2021 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

Town officials are starting to spread the word to practice not just social—but physical—distancing to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in Wellesley.

The Board of Health on Monday agreed to this maybe not so subtle messaging change, and the change in messaging was announced during Monday’s Select Board meeting as well. “Residents may start to see the town using ‘physical distancing’ more consistently when they talk about best practices in keeping safe from COVID-19,” said Select Board member Beth Sullivan Woods.

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Some of the zillions of COVID-19 signs in town actually already do cite physical distancing

 

Meanwhile, Wellesley High School’s athletic department is going through the proper channels for approval of the “Fall II” sports season. Ah yes, if feels like fall out there… This season would include football, indoor track (which would take place outdoors…brrr), cheerleading, and girls’ volleyball, beginning with practices this month and games/meets starting in March.

The “physical distancing” message won’t exactly be in effect for football games, since as Athletic Director John Brown says, “the game is the game.” But the athletic department will strictly follow rules modifications set out by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, including mask wearing, practice restrictions, and sideline changes for players, coaches, and spectators (“The contact will be limited, so it will be a lot different than normal,” Brown said, referring to practices). Parents will be warned that their kids could wind up in quarantine if team members or members of opposing teams test positive for COVID-19.

The athletic department has received the Board of Health’s go-ahead and now seeks School Committee approval to go forward with football and the other sports.


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Wellesley Council on Aging seeks volunteers to help seniors register for COVID-19 vaccines

January 29, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

The Wellesley Council on Aging continues to help seniors register for COVID-19 vaccines, and is welcoming more volunteers to assist in this effort. People aged 75+ are now eligible to register for vaccinations to be administered beginning on Feb. 1.

The Commonwealth has a map that shows where you can register for vaccinations, though demand for the vaccine is outstripping supply, so appointment openings can be hard to come by and you might need to try numerous times and locations. The town’s Health Department is hoping to offer clinics of its own, but first needs to get a fresh supply of vaccines.

For those needing assistance making registrations, the Council on Aging is offering help. Please keep in mind that it may be a several days before you hear from a volunteer, but if you would like to be added to the list for assistance, please send email to [email protected] or call us at (781) 235-3961.

The COA has more than a dozen volunteers working on this and could use more. If you are able to navigate the computer system and would like to help those who cannot or need assistance, please contact the COA office and its volunteer coordinator can get you signed up and trained.  Email the COA here.


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COVID-19 vaccine update for Wellesley seniors & veterans

January 27, 2021 by admin 5 Comments

From the Wellesley Council on Aging:

We have important update for all Wellesley Seniors who are 75 and older. The State has opened up scheduling starting today for vaccinations beginning next week. There is a high volume of registrants expected and an unknown number of current appointments available. While everyone will get an appointment to be vaccinated, please be patient as it may take a few times to get an appointment scheduled. We are working closely with the Health Department to stay apprised. The Health Department is working on setting up an in town clinic in the upcoming weeks and we will disseminate more info as it becomes available. We are bringing volunteers up to speed on how to assist with scheduling of appointments. It is our understanding that the process could easily take upwards of 20 minutes or more per person. To sign-up, you must have your date of birth, insurance information (if you have it), and answer some health questions and agree to an attestation. Our volunteers will make as many calls as they can today and be calling people back from their home phones identifying themselves as a Wellesley COA volunteer. If you would like to have a volunteer return your call and register you online or help you with questions, please call us at (781) 235-3961, we will ask you a few questions and take down your contact information. If you are a veteran, please contact Nancy, the Veteran Service Agent, for vaccinations through the VA at (781) 489-7509.

We hope to be putting out more information, including screen shots and instructions on how to register at home on your own later today.

Thank you for your patience and assistance.

Heather M. Munroe, Director of Senior Services
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Wellesley health officials frustrated with limited vaccine role; schools to discuss COVID-19 dashboard update

January 25, 2021 by Bob Brown 3 Comments

Word that the Commonwealth intends to rely mainly on regional COVID-19 vaccination centers and partnerships with commercial distributors like CVS for inoculations during Phase 2 of the state’s rollout plan has Wellesley’s Health Department and Board of Health grappling with what their role will be in all this. Phase 2 of the rollout starts Feb. 1 for the state, which as administered nearly 450,000  COVID-19 vaccine doses to date.

The Health Department successfully vaccinated first responders and town health employees earlier this month beginning on the first day it got the Moderna vaccine,  but opportunities for the town to vaccinate seniors, teachers, or others is starting to look less likely, based on discussion that took place Monday during the Board of Health’s meeting, which included Wellesley School Committee and Wellesley Public School reps.

Their meeting was held just prior to Gov. Charlie Baker sharing the state’s latest vaccination numbers and plans, which included bumping teachers down a smidge on the vaccination priority list. Board of Health Vice Chair Dr. Marcia Testa Simonson was joining the meeting straight from a call with other high-level health officials, so had the skinny on what the governor was slated to announcement during his briefing, and the health department was going to be back on a call with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health at the end of the day.

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New information on vaccines is coming fast and furious, and vaccines were the topic of the day for the health and school officials. It has been top of mind for residents as well, according to Health Director Lenny Izzo.

“We’re getting a lot of emails, we’re getting a lot of criticism and comments around the vaccine rollout, a lot of remarks that we’re essentially hoarding or not sharing the vaccine, or opening up public clinics the way we should be,” he said. “The bottom line is just don’t have the vaccine.”

At the earliest, the town will get more vaccine mid-next week, he said, and at the most, the town will be able to request 100 doses per week, which it plans to do.

“The ball is in the state’s court right now,” Board of Health Chair Shep Cohen added.

Cities and towns across the state are receiving public health trust fund money and some have already hired people to do vaccinations, though now will perhaps have those people handle testing instead, Testa Simonson said.

It’s unclear at this point how the town or state will handle vaccines for homebound residents who may have great difficulty getting to a regional vaccination center, such as Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. The town is getting plenty of calls from its senior residents who are figuring town health personnel might be swinging by with vaccines for them, even though that isn’t likely how things will work.

Testa Simonson said that one role for local public health entities could be helping people schedule their vaccines, maybe even by setting up a call center to help people navigate the system. Perhaps the Council on Aging could also play a role in this, and helping to get people to where they need to go for vaccinations, board members said.

It’s unclear whether the CVS on Rte. 9 east in Wellesley will be a COVID-19 vaccination site, but Board of Health member Linda Oliver Grape noted that it does have a nice setup there that could accommodate such activity. The site already provides COVID-19 testing.

“We’ll see what happens,” Izzo said, about the overall vaccine plan. “[The state] always seems to change course.”

Wellesley Public Schools update

Upon hearing the state’s latest vaccine distribution plans, Wellesley Public Schools Supt. Dr. David Lussier said “I’m shocked that they’re not trying to leverage local resources to get this done.” Vaccinations for staff are the highest priority for school districts everywhere, he said: “That’s really going to be a catalyst for other things we may be able to do before the end of this school year.”

Lussier expressed surprise that teachers would be bumped down (even if only slightly) on the state’s priority list in light of the governor’s push to get more kids back in physical schools. “I had hoped we could develop a partnership, a local solution that would allow our staff to be vaccinated here in the community in which they work,” he said.

The logistics of getting teachers and staff to mass vaccination sites during the school day would be challenging, and a much less nimble solution than handling things locally, Lussier said. A professional organization for superintendents to which he belongs sent a letter to the governor last week strongly encouraging him to be thinking of February vacation as a good opportunity to get teachers vaccinated. Though as Board of Health members noted, that could be tough time-wise given that there are some big groups ahead of teachers on the schedule.

Lussier posed the question of whether it might behoove the town to approach an outfit like CVS to get a vaccination plan in place for when it is the teachers’ turn.

Separately, Lussier gave an update regarding COVID-19-related efforts at the school system. He made reference to a new state program to support pool testing at schools, but that solution is more labor intensive than the one Wellesley has already been using, so not attractive to Wellesley Public Schools. Lussier is hoping that perhaps state funding might be available to WPS even though it is not using a state-approved vendor or model. WPS is shifting from private to local funding to support its viral testing program, so state relief would be more than welcome.

The school system will also be hosting a webinar on Thursday, Jan. 28 at 6:30-8pm to discuss its plans to update the Wellesley Public Reopening Measures dashboard, which health and school representatives have been working to revise in light of new knowledge about the virus and its spread. Web links will be shared soon.

Wellesley COVID-19 cases booming

Ann Marie McCauley, the town’s public health nurse supervisor, said Wellesley is getting a lot of COVID-19 cases these days. She cited 20 new ones over the weekend and 16 more Monday morning, with Babson College numbers booming upon the return of students from their winter break.

Wellesley has largely been handling contact tracing for COVID-19 cases on its own, but the higher numbers have resulted in the town sending more to the state’s Community Tracing Collaborative.

As for vaccines, the town held two clinics last week, dispensing first-round doses to first responders and school nurses.


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Wellesley High back to hybrid learning; schools tightening budget belts due to COVID

January 21, 2021 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

Wellesley High School returned to a hybrid model of education on Tuesday, after students spent a week learning remotely due to an increase in positive COVID-19 test results. Data located on the district’s COVID dashboard reflects that in the date range of Jan. 8 – Jan. 21 there were 22 positive tests in the public school system, with the highest number during that time (10) coming from WHS. The high numbers caused a shift at the high school to full remote learning.

Wellesley High School, fall 2020

Superintendent David Lussier during the Jan. 12 School Committee meeting said the data is essential in allowing the district to take “targeted actions that might be appropriate at one school that really aren’t warranted at other schools. While we never want to see schools closed, period, the fact that we’re able to target this for one school at a particular time speaks to how much we’ve learned.”

Some parents, however, are concerned about the impact of remote learning on the quality of education that is delivered, and the impact of remote learning on students’ mental health. A letter about this was signed by hundreds of parents and sent to school and other town officials.

The upshot: a large number of parents want their kids back in school full time.

The school and health departments are reworking the public schools reopening measures dashboard, whose underlying measures need to be updated in light of new data from the town and beyond regarding COVID-19. Currently, Wellesley Public Schools are failing all three measures highlighted in the dashboard.

Our take: we’d like to be wrong on this, but in reading between the lines, it seems unlikely that there will be a return to full-time school across grade levels for the rest of the year. Though the vaccine could allow some changes.

Why students aren’t back in school full-time

In an effort to manage expectations while addressing parent concerns, Lussier said that the overarching goal has been to “bring back students within grade levels who have exceptional needs, whose needs can’t be met adequately through remote learning.”

Additional prioritized students are those in Pre-K, K, and grades 1 and 2. Those students are back in school four days per week. Wednesday, traditionally a half-day for Wellesley’s elementary school students, is a remote learning half-day.

The biggest consideration on bringing back the rest of the grades centers around social distancing. The WPS have in place a a 6-feet social distance standard, which is in keeping with the Centers for Disease Control standard.

“We believe that standard needs to stay in place for now” to prevent in school transmission, Lussier said. In addition, “We don’t have anymore spaces to be bringing back any more whole grade levels.”

Lussier also cited as concerns the increased need for contact tracing that would result should additional whole grades be brought back into the schools; lunch-time, with its no-mask environment; and bus transportation needs for K – grade 6 students who live over two miles from school. By state law, the district must provide transportation to those students.

School budget, FY2022

Under guidelines the School Committee received from the Select Board, there is to be an increase in the FY22 budget of no more than 2.5%. “That’s quite slim,” said Linda Chow, “but certainly a reflection on the times we’re in and the impact of COVID on town finances.”

In FY2021, Town Meeting voted to appropriate $80,379,651 to the schools. A 2.5% increase would boost the FY22 schools budget by a little over $2 million.

The budget will be strictly a service-level affair, the goal being to hang onto all educational programming at the level at which it now operates at the very least. There will be no expected investments in new programs. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that all current programming is safe from potential cuts.

One line item that can substantially fluctuate upward: the money set aside for special education needs. The FY22 budget currently is based on the town’s known special education needs, but variables are always possible. “The budget is based on only the known costs we have in special education, or that can be reasonably anticipated,” Lussier said.

Level services may also need to include additional student interventions to close education gaps created by the pandemic.

Wellesley schools, FY22 Budget


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