COVID-19 case numbers are climbing in the Pioneer Valley and throughout Massachusetts as the entire state is again experiencing a “high” level of community transmission, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and.
GREAT BARRINGTON â There was that birthday party in Pittsfield, the flag football games in Adams and a few âlarge gatheringsâ that set off a sizable volume of coronavirus infections in Pittsfield last month and trickled down to South County.
And there were other, more subtle exposures. One out-of-state visitor passed on what one Berkshire County public health official said appeared to be a different, mean strain of the virus that made âone group of women extremely sick.â
Leslie Drager, public health nurse for 20 Berkshire towns, said most symptoms she has seen have been mild â cold and allergylike â until that group surfaced on her radar.