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Coronavirus Update- Support Wilton’s Small Businesses, Senior Drive-Thru Lunch, Phase 1.a. Vaccines, COVID Testing Sign-Up & Case Data

Posted on: December 9, 2020 - 6:36pm

December 9th – Wilton’s small businesses are working hard to make it easy to shop by offering options: shopping by Zoom, by phone or online and private and curbside shopping.  You can learn more about many of our small businesses on the Shop Wilton Ct website or the Wilton Chamber website or check out their Facebook pages.  The Town is encouraging your support of small businesses with Shop Local, Win Local.  Shop local from December 7th to December 20th and win gift cards to local businesses. 

Wilton’s Firefighters will handout lunches at next Wednesday’s drive-thru holiday lunch for Wilton Seniors at Comstock between 11:00 a.m. and noon. There will also be special gifts from the Girls Scouts and the Wilton Woman’s Club. 160 seniors have already signed up.  If you haven’t, contact Stephanie Rowe to reserve your lunch, then mark your calendar for December 16th!  This is the third monthly drive-thru lunch sponsored by Social Services and organized by Senior Activities Coordinator Stephanie Rowe and the Wilton Woman’s Club. 

The following is data as of 8:30 p.m. last night from today’s CT DPH report versus yesterday’s December 8th report:

  • Wilton:  3 new cases reported. 524 cases YTD.  
  • Statewide:  2,290 new cases.  7.56% of the 30,287 new tests reported were positive.  140,548 cases YTD.
  • Fairfield County:  604 new cases.  44,980 cases YTD.
  • Hospitalized Patients:  Statewide, 1,262 with a 39-net patient increase. Fairfield County, 365 with a 1-net patient increase.
  • Deaths:  Statewide, 5,285 with 43 new deaths.  Fairfield County, 1,577 with 10 new deaths.  Wilton, 45, with no new deaths.  

Cases newly known to Wilton’s Health Department ranged from ages 21 to 58. 

The following chart shows the distribution of known cases by age for the previous 7-day periods and the first day 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%

40%

24%

32%

22%

14%

25 to 44

16%

 

15%

23%

20%

21%

45 to 65

32%

60%

33%

45%

36%

36%

65+

16%

 

7%

 

8%

5%

We had a call today with CT’s DPH Commissioner, who explained how vaccines will be administered under Phase 1.a.  Residents and staff of nursing and assisted living facilities will receive vaccines through the State’s pharmacy program.  During the week of December 21st, CVS and Walgreens will begin to visit the facilities to perform vaccinations. Hospitals will vaccinate their employees and those affiliated with the hospitals.  Federal certified health centers, local health departments and hospital will perform vaccinations for qualified medical workers not affiliated with a hospital.  Information on the distribution for future phases will be forthcoming.  

Instructions on how to sign up for Friday’s COVID-19 PCR testing at Comstock Community Center are available here. 

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