Editor’s Note: In this edition, active cases along with tips for emotional health and wellbeing, as well as a thank you from Superintendent of Schools Jon Sills about the start of remote learning.
Click this link to read the Town’s full update for Wednesday, April 1, 2020
The daily update is also available in the following places if you’d like to share with your friends:
- Website ~ www.BedfordMA.gov
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- Twitter ~ @BedfordMAGov
ACTIVE CASES
As of today, April 1, 2020, there have been a total of eleven (11) presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 reported to the Town of Bedford Board of Health by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MA DPH). Three (3) of these cases have already recovered and have come off of isolation and quarantine, and there is (1) Person Under Investigation. It is likely that there are other individuals impacted by COVID-19 in the community that have not sought medical attention, and/or have not been tested and are isolating at home regardless. Those individuals do not appear on the surveillance reports the Town receives from the MA DPH.
The Board of Health continues to do the appropriate follow-up and outreach to those residents and close contacts known to us. Many of the identified close contacts of the initial cases never exhibited symptoms have completed their required quarantine period and have been released from quarantine by the Board of Health. The Town has also been informed of two (2) presumptive positive cases at Hanscom Air Force Base. One individual has been released from isolation, and has no contacts that the Town of Bedford is required to follow up on.
Anyone exhibiting flu-like symptoms should immediately self-quarantine, isolate from household members and contact their healthcare provider for further guidance on whether testing is warranted.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Tips for Emotional Health and Well-Being During COVID-19: The Health and Human Services Department reminds Bedford residents that it is important to take care of your emotional health and well-being during the COVID-19 outbreak and Stay at Home Advisory. Decreasing stress can help bolster your immune system and can help keep you and others around you healthy. Please read the update for more tips!
Updates from BPS on Remote Learning: A thank-you from Superintendent Jon Sills on the collective patience as BPS launches remote learning.
As we launch our remote/online learning operation this week, I want to thank everyone for their patience, their questions and their comments. By necessity, this is a work in progress, something new for students, faculty and families alike, so collaborative problem-solving will be an important component of its success. This means that we invite communication, but please know that principals and district leaders are receiving hundreds of inquiries a day, so we need to ask for your patience as they/we craft their replies.
In particular, I want to thank first responders and frontline medical personnel, first, for the dangerous work that you are doing on all of our behalf’s, but also to acknowledge the extraordinary challenges that online learning must create for your families for those of you with young children. Please communicate with your children’s teachers and principals about your particular circumstances. We want to do whatever we can to support your children’s learning- working with childcare providers even if they change daily, providing additional outreach by teachers or teaching assistants, etc.
~ Jon Sills, Superintendent of the Bedford Schools
Stay healthy!…(and wash your hands as often as possible.)
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