During the last twelve months, Covid has changed and, consequently, Covid numbers recorded this year do not represent true changes from the Covid numbers of 2020.

In 2020, the Delta variant did not exist. The Delta variant is everywhere today. It is more transmittable than the Covid strains that caused Putnam County’s active case numbers to climb from 30 in August 2020 to more than 1,000 in December 2020. The Delta variant is more deadly…