Code Red From Mayor Hess Dec. 4

December 4, 2020

Re: COVID-19 Code Red Transcript

Good Afternoon,

Today is Friday December 4. It's hard to believe that we are in day 274 of the pandemic. We realized that many people are experiencing COVID fatigue. The virus is draining. It's exhausting, especially for our frontline heroes. It does nothing to brighten our days.

As a result of COVID fatigue, our numbers have been rising. At last report on November 20, our case rate was 18 per day. In the last two weeks, our case rate has risen to 19. So, we're holding our own, but we all need to do better.

Is there any good news? We believe that the arrival of the vaccine is the beginning of the end of the pandemic. At Unified command, we are finalizing our vaccine dissemination plan, and we're just waiting for final input from the state.

There is light at the end of the tunnel, and we've been getting questions about our schools. This is what you need to know: our schools are very safe. We are not seeing a spread of cases in school, and the limited cases that we have are not coming from school, they're being brought into the schools.

On a brighter note, Christmas is coming. We've got some great programs we have a deck the Borough program at the police department, a live Facebook tree lighting tomorrow night, a drive through Santa program, and a Naugy strong program. As we approach the holiday season, we have hope that 2021 will be a much better year. Hope makes our current burden less painful.

Stay positive test negative. Stay Naugy Strong and Naugy Smart.

Thank you

Pete Hess

Mayor
Borough of Naugatuck