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COVID-19 percent positivity across the commonwealth decreased yet again this week, though the northeastern counties saw a mix of jumps in drops in their own rates.
According to the most recent release from the COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System Dashboard, PCR percent positivity for the entirety of Pennsylvania decreased from 6.5% for the week of Feb. 19 to Feb. 25 to 5.7% for the week of Feb. 26 to March 4.
The latest drop falls in line with an average decline in percent positivity over the course of the past few weeks, and notably, this week’s margin of difference is slightly greater than the previous week’s rate decrease.
It has been a rough year for Silvio Vitiello, owner of Pocono Brewery Company.
His restaurant in Swiftwater and his taproom location in Whitehall have taken heavy hits from the COVID-19 pandemic, suffering from long-stretch closures, spur-of-the-moment regulations from the state government, and slow-moving assistance.
“We are 35% to 37% in the red from the previous year, and that’s not counting the two months closed, because it wouldn’t be fair. So, it’s a lot more than that,” Vitiello said, estimating that, in all, his restaurants lost half their business for the year.
Vitiello isn’t alone. In fact, if anything, he s among the majority of restaurateurs in the commonwealth.
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