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This is Mayor John Hamilton on Thursday, November 5th, with just a quick COVID update for all. Bloomington continues to be doing better than our state overall. The numbers from the very significant Indiana University testing were again very good this week, showing a low incidence overall. We have seen some uptick locally in the positivity rate in cases per hundred thousand, which definitely confirmed to us we're not out of the woods. The disease, the virus is definitely among us. It's being transmitted among us. 

But we're also seeing demonstrations that what you're doing, what we are doing together in terms of masking, in terms of physical distancing, in terms of controlling social gatherings and limiting their size and controlling what happens in restaurants that that is helping because our community is doing much better than the state as a whole. Indiana, as a whole, continues to have a very negative trajectory.

The number of deaths, the seven-day rolling average has nearly tripled in the last 30 or 40 days. The number of positive cases per day has approximately tripled on a seven-day moving average as well, exactly the wrong average in a serious spike statewide. We're not an island. We will not be immune to that. That means we have to be very careful about travel, about gatherings with people. Remember to treat each of us as potentially infectious at any time, and to continue to mask, continue to social distance, continue to monitor symptoms, and get tested if needed.

Thank you for all you're doing. We will be continuing to monitor this very closely. Please continue to observe these basic steps that will protect us from a greater spread of this virus. Thanks again, and stay well.