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From YouTube: COVID-19 Update from Mayor Hamilton on February 8, 2021
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Hello
again,
it's
mayor
john
hamilton,
giving
a
public
report
on
monday
february,
8th
thanks
for
paying
attention
as
we
catch
up
on.
What's
going
on
with
the
pandemic
in
bloomington,
continue
to
get
three
signals
on
three
major
indices
in
good
directions
for
both
our
community
and
our
state
in
terms
of
caseload
in
terms
of
hospitalizations
in
terms
of
average
deaths,
those
are
all
going
down.
That's
really
good
news
continuing
to
see
that
and
we
appreciate
all
the
good
work.
That's
making
that
happen.
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Vaccinations
continue
to
rise.
We
have
hit
over
20
000
now
that
have
been
delivered.
Doses
delivered
in
our
community
and
that
number
will
continue
to
rise
as
iu
health
doing
most
of
those
so
far
as
well
as
county
health
department,
and
now
pharmacies
will
be
beginning
to
make
that
available
depending
upon
who's
allowed
when
and
where
and
when
they
get
the
vaccine
as
well
as
indiana
university,
which
is
ready
to
distribute
shots
in
the
arms
as
soon
as
they
get
vaccines
too.
So
all
that's
good.
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We
continue
to
be
really
vigilant,
however,
monitoring,
what's
going
on,
we
continue
to
worry
that
there's
mutations,
this
new
strains
that
we
know
they're
in
indiana.
They
could
well
be
in
bloomington.
They
could
well
increase
the
infectiousness
with
thousands
of
students
back
so
we're
all
needing
to
be
very
careful.
I
have
not
relaxed
the
restrictions
specific
to
bloomington
of
15
person,
social
gatherings
I
didn't
agree
with,
but
I
understand
the
county
health
department
decided
to
go
from
25
to
50
for
allowed
sizes
of
gatherings.
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I
think
that's
a
little
soon,
but
we'll
let
the
health
department
decide
that
do
remember.
In
any
event,
those
gatherings
still
need
to
be
physically
distanced
masked
appropriate
protections
against
that
and
we're
going
to
keep
monitoring.
As
I
know,
the
health
experts
will,
what
may
be
what
we
see
in
the
data
I'll
give
you
one
little
data
point:
that's
been
kind
of
instructive.
We
heard
this
last
friday
the
the
things
that
we're
doing
to
protect
against
infection.
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The
iu
health
system
reported
that,
as
of
this
time
last
year,
they
had
261
flu
cases
that
they
had
reported
this
year.
That
number
is
seven:
that's
a
95
plus
percent
reduction
in
flu
cases.
Now
I'm
not
an
expert.
There
may
be
other
reasons
for
this,
but
almost
certainly
significant
component
of
that
is
the
way:
we're
not
mixing
air
and
sharing
with
each
other,
and
so
seeing
that
dramatic
reduction
in
flu
cases
reminds
us.
This
stuff
helps
the
masking
the
distancing,
the
not
sharing
air.
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This
really
helps
not
transmit
that
disease,
as
well
as
the
coronavirus.
So
thanks
for
what
you're
doing,
keep
that
up
and
we'll
stay
in
touch
again
friday
afternoon
news
conferences
are
always
available,
but
the
news
is
good,
but
we
are
not
out
of
the
woods
so
keep
doing
what
you're
doing
with
those
protections
and
I'll
keep
reporting
to.