Governor Charlie Baker should act now to end the lockdown in many Massachusetts counties and towns — despite the public health officials and experts who predict a flood of deaths should businesses be allowed to reopen. Some of these are the same experts whose previous models were wildly inaccurate, predicting more than 2 million deaths from coronavirus in the United States and shortages of hospital beds and ventilators throughout the nation.
The number of confirmed cases of Covid19 in Massachusetts reached 38,077 as of Sunday, April 19. That's a lot of people. But this figure represents a little more than one-half of 1 percent of the population of the Commonwealth.
A local conservative group is planning to hold a rally called "Reopen Cape Cod" at the Bourne Rotary this weekend.
The number of new cases of coronavirus is trending downward in Barnstable County, which consists of the 15 towns on Cape Cod, a county official told The Cape Cod Times this week.
