3 Guiding Reports with 5 NEW* Easy BENCHMARKS to Compare any Town’s COVID-19 Metrics in a Community Assessment Guide with Concrete Action Steps and Shows How to Use Local Virus Analytics by Town to Pre-Empt Spread.  Includes Older Population & Ambulance Counts, Those Without Cell, Computer or Internet and much more for any MA Town, City and County. PLUS 3 OTHER GUIDES for any place in USA. This Site is One-of-a-Kind to Push Back on Local COVID-19.

EASY to understand benchmarks, summary of local findings and analytics for action

Fact-based tools for anyone, anywhere to fight local COVID-19 : 

1. Local Community Needs Assessment Guide, (w/local COVID-19 numbers) combined with:

2. Population and Ambulance Counts  (w/local Rural & EMS Region Designation)

3. People Not Connected: NO Cell, NO Computer or Internet, including older (companion report)

   This site hones in on local COVID-19 and ferrets it out!!!

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public officials, faith and non-faith based organizations, businesses and everyone else. For fact-based decision making and faster action.

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They make a world of difference.

Also

SEE: Five NEW** indicators to quickly compare any town’s COVID-19 spread in county and state. Benchmarks abutters including across county lines: ACTION STEP #7, 

 SAVE These Latest  Baseline Metrics  & 5 gauges because are BENCHMARKS for ALL Future Comparisons and Virus Surges.  PASS ON: Hampden’s new in-depth study and to abutters .

NOTICE:  4 towns in Franklin account for 87% of its COVID-19 cases, 54% of its population and 50% of its roads.  Hampden abuts the CT town with the HIGHEST case rates in Connecticut. Some Berkshire, Hampshire and Barnstable‘s towns’ have growing shares of county’s virus;  Middlesex north-south COVID-19 track; Four bands of low positivity in Barnstable; Lowest virus counts hopscotch Plymouth; Franklin and Berkshires still have towns with no virus .  Your Help is needed – PLS PASS ON: Worcester in-depth study shows 4 clusters to nail down & one south border town with disproportionate new cases. New benchmarks show six Bristol towns with some of the highest virus rates in MA;  Essex has three abutters with real low positivity; Three Norfolk towns are below WHO’s recommended 5% positivity w/others much higher than state’s average.  Some towns keep growing concentrations of virus in  Middlesex & see Newton’s seven abutters’, in 3 counties, COVID-19.  Hampden‘s benchmarks show 8 of its  23 towns with some of the highest case rates in the state AND  one small municipality in the heartland of its spread is abutting the Connecticut town with the highest case rates in that state.  (pls pass it on.) SEE Franklin‘s neighbors in VT and  NH July 18th COVID-19 case numbers. 

SAVE THESE BASELINE METRICS FOR ALL FUTURE COMPARISONS – with five gauges to know how a town is doing in county and state-wide

• Barnstable: Assess Local Needs; POPULATION:  & Ambulances & NO Cell or Internet
• Berkshire: Assess Local Needs, POPULATION:  & Ambulances & NO Cell or Internet
• Bristol: Assess Local Needs, POPULATION: & Ambulances& NO Cell or Internet
• Essex: Assess Local Needs; POPULATION:  & Ambulances & NO Cell or Internet 
• Franklin: Assess Local Needs, POPULATION: & Ambulances &; NO Cell or Internet
• Hampden: Assess Local Needs, POPULATION: & Ambulances & NO Cell or Internet 
• Hampshire:  Assess Local Needs, POPULATION: & Ambulance   & NO Cell or Internet
• Middlesex: Assess Local Needs; POPULATION: & Ambulances; & NO Cell or Internet
• Norfolk: Assess Local Needs; POPULATION: & Ambulances; & NO Cell or Internet
• Plymouth: Assess Local Needs; POPULATION: & Ambulance; & NO Cell or Internet
• Suffolk:
• Worcester: Assess Local Needs; POPULATION: & Ambulances; & NO Cell or Internet 

About

Theresa Clary is a data scientist, researcher and geographer. She is Founder of World Force Strategies. Her work is about places and people with targeted knowledge-based actions.

Her experience includes R&D a first-of-a kind national demographics which were delivered by the world’s largest mapping company in easy to read town, city and county reports. At county and regional levels, she assesses community needs. Working with management, unions, government agencies, educational institutions and non-profits, she built large training and employment programs that served thousands of people across counties and regions.

She jump-started endeavors in USA by introducing and training others to create maps used by the International Red Cross during the Ebola crises. Beginning on March 4, 2020 Theresa’s county-wide e-mailings to Berkshire County MA initiated her efforts to contain and slow COVID-19’s local transmission. Now, each month, hundreds of site visitors download her COVID-19 action guide with geographic analyses by-town to beat its transmission. 

Theresa has an M.S. in Geography. Born with a broad world view, she is committed to pitching in.

Now it is everyone’s shared mission

Your help is needed to extend World Force Strategies’ reach.

Your skills are needed, because, communities from all over are counting on this website and its critical local information. This is your opportunity to become part of the solution. And you build your resume while helping because immediately you will be become part of the emerging high-tech field of geocoding. Its easy because it uses the same skills you already have:  Excel, Internet research, communication, writing,  reading, editing,  phone and database.  Now is the time to jump in and send an email to Theresa. Other skills needed are project management, WordPress, MySQL, data management, plus geo-data and mapping is a plus.   Working with location information is really interesting and fun because it tells about the world around us.  Today,  you can make a world of difference. Please send a simple list of your skills or links that show them.  

 Other: Send any updated local ambulance information or report corrections: Theresa Clary. 

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