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Worcester City Manager Ed Augustus on with us now for our weekly conversation.
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"I'm very concerned, I'm very anxious" about where we are in Worcester with COVID-19 says City Manager Ed Augustus. He tells us that the worst of this is ahead of us and the Thanksgiving and Christmas spread will skyrocket cases through the first couple of weeks of January 2021.
The City Manager says that he IS willing to act independently from the state in certain instances, such as limiting indoor dining parties to 6 and no counter seating and shutting down construction. But as far as a lockdown, he says that really has to be a state action.
His thinking is a City shutdown would just push folks to the surrounding communities and then we wouldn't get the benefit from the lockdown and it would hurt Worcester businesses in the process.
CM tells us that the real challenge in treating COVID right now will be getting enough healthcare workers. In the Spring it was a shortage of PPE, and now it's a shortage of healthcare workers. He says UMass is hiring. "We could really use your help".
