Photo by CDC on Unsplash
LYME/OLD LYME — Ledge Light Health District’s (LLHD) weekly COVID-19 summary dated Nov. 13, which was sent out Friday (Nov. 13) afternoon, reported 53 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Old Lyme including two fatalities, and 12 confirmed cases in Lyme with an additional probable one in that town.
These numbers are the same as those we reported last Friday, Nov. 6. They are also the same as those reported daily this week by the Connecticut Department of Health (CT DPH) indicating no change in the number of confirmed cases has occurred in either Lyme or Old Lyme in the past week.
The report from LLHD also reports 13 new confirmed cases in Old Lyme between Oct. 25 and Nov. 7. Since no new cases were reported in Old Lyme by the state in the week between Nov. 6 and Nov. 13, we must assume those 13 cases were confirmed during the week of Oct. 25 through Nov. 7.
We monitor the Connecticut COVID Data Portal (which provides centralized access to data on COVID-19) daily and will report any new confirmed cases in Lyme or Old Lyme as soon as we are aware of them.
Stephen Mansfield, LLHD Director of Health, said in the introduction to the report emailed Friday, Nov. 13, “Our contact tracers continue to report that they have observed many instances of family and social gathering connections.”
He adds, “We are also seeing a significant number of cases associated with sporting events, as well as person to person transmission within foodservice establishments; these foodservice cases have been almost exclusively employee to employee, rather than employee to patron.”
He stresses, “Cases associated with schools and long-term care facilities remain relatively low.”
There was an ongoing discrepancy between LLHD and CT DPH figures for several weeks prior to Nov. 6, but it now has been resolved by LLHD adopting CT DPH’s numbers. Ledge Light Health Department is no longer releasing details of individual cases (age and gender) and so we cannot provide a comprehensive listing of cases as we were previously.
On Friday, Nov. 6, Mansfield told LymeLine, “We are no longer tracking and reporting case numbers independent of the state report. We will only be publishing what DPH reports to us each Friday … Simply put, due to the workload associated with the increase in cases, we do not have the resources to duplicate the efforts of DPH, nor provide a more detailed analysis of the cases in our communities.”
The total number of cases in Old Lyme, of which we have details, is 36 including two fatalities. The number of surviving cases in Old Lyme now comprises 18 males and 16 females ranging in age from 17- to 82-years-old. The two fatalities were a 61-year-old female and an 82-year-old male.
The total number of cases in Lyme, of which we have details, remains at 11 comprising five females and six males ranging in age from one- to 68-years-old. There have been no fatalities in Lyme.
Gender and age details of the confirmed cases in Lyme to date are:
- Male, age 34
- Female, age 61
- Female, age 34
- Male, age 1
- Male, age 34
- Male, age 20
- Male, aged 68
- Female, age 21
- Female, age 62
- Male, age unknown
- Female, age 51
To demonstrate the growth in confirmed COVID-19 cases in Old Lyme, the table below is a summary of the cases that LymeLine.com has reported since March 31 when the first case was announced and also includes both fatalities.
[table id=3 /]
Details of all Old Lyme’s confirmed surviving cases to date are as follows:
- Female, age 64
- Female, age 21
- Male, age 27
- Female, age 53
- Female, age 61
- Female, age 29
- Male, age 40
- Male, age 53
- Female, age 60
- Male, age 45
- Female, age 20
- Female, age 43
- Female, age 48
- Male, age 70
- Male, age 67
- Female, age 68
- Male, age 50
- Male, age 21
- Female, age 48
- Female, age 34
- Male, age 20
- Male, age 28
- Male, age 74
- Male, age 61
- Female, age 19
- Male, age 31
- Female, age 25
- Male, age 61
- Male, age 35
- Female, age 38
- Male, age 56
- Male, age 20
- Male, age 18
- Female, age 17
Griswold has previously noted that the 21-year-old female with a confirmed case (#2 in the list immediately above) was tested in Florida, but used an Old Lyme address although she does not live here. Because she gave the Old Lyme address, Griswold said that LLHD must report her as an Old Lyme resident.
Residents and businesses are urged to access up-to-date information regarding the pandemic from reputable sources including the Ledge Light Health District website (www.llhd.org), Facebook (@LedgeLightHD), Twitter (@LedgeLightHD), and Instagram (@LedgeLightHD).
Editor’s Note: Ledge Light Health District (LLHD) serves as the local health department in southeast Connecticut for the towns of Lyme and Old Lyme as well as East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, New London, North Stonington, Stonington and Waterford. As a health district, formed under Connecticut General Statutes Section 19a-241, LLHD is a special unit of government, allowing member municipalities to provide comprehensive public health services to residents in a more efficient manner by consolidating the services within one organization.
Describing herself as a “frequent flyer” at zoning commission meetings, Old Lyme Selectwoman Mary Jo Nosal spoke warmly of her relationship with Cable. She noted, “You have mentored me … thanks to you, I’ve learned so much.”
