Coronavirus Update- Firefighters/Bright Lights, Possible Winter Storm & Case Data
December 14th – Wilton Firefighters recently joined Wilton’s Bright Lights initiative by lighting up Fire Station 2 on Ridgefield Road. The folks behind the initiative encouraged residents to light up their homes as a sign of community connection.
Wilton Police and Social Services teamed up again to apply for a Shop-With-A-Cop grant from the Reach Foundation. They were awarded gift cards to be given to Wilton children in need during the holiday season.
Reminders of this week’s events:
Wednesday: Social Services’ Wilton Seniors Drive-Thru Lunch
Friday: Parks and Recreation’s Drive-Thru Holiday Celebration with Santa
Today through Saturday: Shop Local, Win Local
Our emergency services team is monitoring a possible winter storm beginning Wednesday through Thursday afternoon. Heavy snow fall is possible. Fingers crossed it doesn’t interfere with this week’s events.
The following is data, as of 8:30 p.m. last night, from today’s CT DPH report versus Friday’s December 11th report:
- Wilton: 14 new cases reported. 545 cases YTD.
- Statewide: 7,231 new cases. 6.08% of the 119,015 new tests reported were positive. 153,992 cases YTD.
- Fairfield County: 1,693 new cases. 48,308 cases YTD.
- Hospitalized Patients: Statewide, 1,243 with a 33-net patient increase. Fairfield County, 307 with a 15-net patient decrease.
- Deaths: Statewide, 5,444 with 81 new deaths. Fairfield County, 1,602 with 14 new deaths. Wilton, 45, with no new deaths. See chart below on deaths in November and December.
Cases newly known to Wilton’s Health Department ranged from ages 2 to 81. A significantly disproportionate number were aged 45 to 65.
The following chart shows the distribution of known cases by age for the previous 7-day periods and the first six days of this 7-day period.
| Wilton | Dec 8 to | Dec 1 to | Nov 24 to | Nov 17 to | Nov 10 to |
Ages | Population | Dec 14th | Dec 7th | Nov 30th | Nov 23rd | Nov 16th |
0 to 4 | 5% |
| 7% |
| 2% | 7% |
5 to 14 | 18% |
| 15% |
| 12% | 17% |
15 to 24 | 13% | 19% | 24% | 32% | 22% | 14% |
25 to 44 | 16% |
| 15% | 23% | 20% | 21% |
45 to 65 | 32% | 62% | 33% | 45% | 36% | 36% |
65+ | 16% | 8% | 7% |
| 8% | 5% |
The increase in deaths during the first 13 days of December is just shy of the number of deaths in November. The following charts compares deaths during the last 29 days in November to the first 13 days in December:
Age | Nov | Nov. | Dec 1 to | Dec | |||
Range |
|
|
| 29 days | % Share | Dec 13th | % Share |
under 20 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | |||
20s | 1 | 0.24% | 1 | 0.25% | |||
30s | 2 | 0.48% | 1 | 0.25% | |||
40s | 11 | 2.66% | 7 | 1.73% | |||
50s | 25 | 6.05% | 15 | 3.71% | |||
60s | 56 | 13.56% | 50 | 12.38% | |||
70s | 88 | 21.31% | 88 | 21.78% | |||
80 plus | 230 | 55.69% | 242 | 59.90% | |||
413 | 404 | ||||||
Daily Avg. | 14 | 31 |
On Friday, we were pleased to sponsor COVID-19 PCR testing for 212 participants, including 76 residents. By all reports, the process was efficient and test results were generally available within 15 hours or less. We did not meet the original vendor threshold; plus resident participation was well short of the desired response. As such, we will not be sponsoring additional testing with this vender. We continue to pursue other options. Thank you to Sarah Gioffre, Patricia Brandt, Steve Pierce, Kregg Zulkeski, Jen Fascitelli and C.E.R.T. for all your efforts.
Please, behave as if you have the virus and as if those around you do as well.
5 W’s
- Watch your distance
- Wear a mask/face covering when you can’t maintain 6 feet of distance whether indoors or outside
- Walk, run or bike to the right in single file when passing another person on the NRVT, sidewalks and trails
- Wait to host indoor gatherings
- Wash your hands
If you have a question, please email me at lynne.vanderslice@wiltonct.org
Lynne Vanderslice
First Selectwoman