The state reported no new confirmed COVID-19 cases in Harvard for the three weeks ending June 8. The town’s cumulative number of confirmed cases since the pandemic began remains at 140. During the week of June 1, no students or staff at Harvard schools tested positive for COVID-19, and none were in quarantine.
According to the state’s weekly town-by-town vaccination report, the number of residents in Harvard that were fully vaccinated as of June 3 was 3,409, up from 3,280 a week earlier. Another 623 had received one dose of a two-dose vaccine. Town Clerk Marlene Kenney reported Harvard’s population, excluding Devens residents, was 5,502 on April 1, based on voter registration numbers and the annual town census. Devens residents are not included in Harvard’s vaccinated population count published by the state, so as of June 3, the percentage of fully vaccinated Harvard residents was about 62%, with another 11% partially vaccinated.
Statewide, during the week between June 1 and June 8, confirmed COVID-19 cases increased by 1,049, down from the previous week’s increase of 1,378. There were 34 COVID-19-related deaths that same week, down from 45 the week before. On June 8 the number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in the state was 73, down from 225 a week earlier. The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units also fell over that same week, from 77 to 57.
On June 8 the Bureau of Prisons website reported no active COVID-19 cases among inmates or staff at the Federal Medical Center in Devens. As of June 8, 579 of the facility’s 732 inmates had been fully vaccinated, as had 349 staff members. Since the pandemic began, 368 of the current inmates have recovered, 63 staff have recovered, and 11 inmates died of complications from the virus.
Editor’s Note: The state’s vaccination database uses federal census data for town and city populations; for Harvard, that data includes Devens residents and the 2019 count of the inmates at the Federal Medical Center in Devens. However, the state is not including Devens residents or inmates from FMC Devens in its vaccinated population numbers by town. As a result, the state’s reported percentages of the Harvard population that has been vaccinated, including overall, and by age, gender, and race, are not accurate. The weekly town-by-town vaccination report in the Boston Globe uses the state’s numbers.
