By Mayor Phil Kramer
On May 13th Franklin hit two milestones regarding COVID-19. Both of them 100.
The one we will all notice is sadly, very sadly, is we reached 100 deaths. One hundred people, and hundreds of family members and friends affected. One hundred lights on our makeshift memorial. And one hundred lives cut short. We will never be the same. We took so much for granted.
The other milestone is less obvious. We hit the number 100 in doubling time. Doubling time is a way epidemiologist follow infections. It is the time it takes for an infection to double the number of people it hits. The bigger the number the better. If all things were constant, then doubling times wouldn’t change. But as you slow a virus down you slow the infection rate and the doubling time gets longer. For the first two weeks it was doubling every three to five days. It was a month before it slowed to doubling every 10 days. I became very excited when it did. Now the doubling time just reached 100 days.
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