As she and other health officials have done for months, Millbern is asking residents to do what they can to limit the spread of the virus, including mask usage in public, social distancing, good hand hygiene and avoiding any sort of gathering until there's a vaccine or until numbers improve. With Thanksgiving now a week away, Millbern asked residents to sacrifice now so there is no pain of loss for Christmas or next year's Thanksgiving.

Public Health has had a handful of staffers develop COVID and also unrelated illnesses, so that's also putting additional strain on services like the testing line and contact tracing. With the swell in testing, it's now taking anywhere from four to nine days to get results back.