Quincy Skyrockets Into Code Red COVID-19 Risk Status

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Quincy goes Code Red
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Quincy skyrockets Into Code Red COVID-19 risk status.

As Quincy Quarry’s epidemiological desk has warned for weeks, Quincy was on track to be hit with a COVID-19 Red Zone risk rating and it did so when the Quarry had projected.

Not expected, however, was that Quincy would do so in such dramatic fashion.

While Quincy has long met one of the two criteria for COVID-19 Red Zone status – the number of cases per 100,000 – Quincy had not also hit the 4% positive testing metric required to merit Red Zone risk status until this past week. 

Drive-up COVID-19 testing in Quincy<br/.>A Laura Owens Lambert/Patriot Ledger image

Per the latest Massachusetts Department of Public Health weekly COVID-19 update, however, the positive testing rate skyrocketed by 50% from last week’s of the edge Red Zone status 3.57% positive testing rate up to 5.36% per this week’s report and thus well into the COVID-19 Red Zone this week.

Conversely, however, while Weymouth also went Code Red this week, the other Quincy-adjacent communities of Boston, Braintree, and Milton continue to only have Yellow Zone risk ratings.

The virus continues multiply
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And as for how bad is the spread of COVID-19 in Quincy, it would appear that per Mayor Koch’s COVID-19 update on Wednesday, a day before the release of the Department of Public Health Department’s weekly update was released yesterday, that he is now working remotely at home.

That and he made a number of verbal misstatements if one pays close attention to his latest COVID update YouTube video and which are typical of the sorts of mistakes that occur while working remotely instead of in the office per standard operating procedures.

For example, developing a better-crafted script, tighter direction, and the ability to make another take.

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