The state reported no new confirmed COVID-19 cases in Harvard for the five weeks ending June 22. The town’s cumulative number of confirmed cases since the pandemic began remains at 140.
According to the state’s weekly town-by-town vaccination report, the number of residents in Harvard that were fully vaccinated as of June 22 was 3,729, up from 3,633 a week earlier. Another 403 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 22, the percentage of fully vaccinated Harvard residents was about 68%, with another 7% partially vaccinated.
Statewide, during the week between June 15 and June 22, confirmed COVID-19 cases increased by 422, down from the previous week’s increase of 567. There were 27 COVID-19-related deaths that same week, down from 32 the week before. On June 22 the number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in the state was 103, down from 124 a week earlier. The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units also fell over that same week, from 43 to 35.
On June 22 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 22, 630 of the facility’s 732 inmates had been fully vaccinated, as had 350 staff members. Since the pandemic began, 362 of the current inmates have recovered, 65 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.
