Springfield Business Journal_2021-03-29

MARCH 29 -APRIL 4, 2021 Nov. 2 Greene County surpasses 10,000 COVID-19 cases Dec. 11 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine gets FDA Emergency Use Authorization Dec. 21 C ongress passes second relief package ($900 billion) Moderna vaccine gets FDA Emergency Use Authorization Jan. 11 SBA reopens PPP funding March 10 Congress passes third relief package ($1.9 trillion) March 22 City Council adopts thresholds to phase out of Road to Recovery orders March 23 Day of Remembrance held in honor of the 422 county residents who died from COVID-19 Feb. 18 CoxHealth’s COVID emergency ward is empty for the first time since opening; it had peaked at 170 COVID patients Dec. 14 Two Mercy nurses are the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Greene County Feb. 27 Johnson & Johnson vaccine gets FDA Emergency Use Authorization Dec. 31 First vaccination clinics serve health care workers in Health Department and Jordan Valley Community Health Center partnership COVID 19 LOOK BACK The pandemic’s impact on business and life d the one-year anniversary of n Greene County and the local d due to the pandemic. Here are the months that followed. SPS Launch Springfield Public Schools enacted virtual learning solutions last year through its online course platform, dubbed Launch. Cost of Virtual Education e County Health Department, urnal reporting and research Source: Springfield Public Schools SPS Launch student enrollments Partner school district Launch enrollments Unique Students Unique Students Course Enrollements Course Enrollements 6,358 5,446 33,210 13,778 47,803 23,050 11,041 31,081 Fall 2020 Spring 2021 $824,445 Chromebooks added last year $373,146 Addition of 2,000 Kajeet SmartSpots last year $48,000 T-Mobile hotspots added in the fall $574,391 Internet access enabled this school year utilizing Kajeet and T-Mobile hotspots and Mediacom in-home access 2,779,405 AMANDA MILLER T he past 12 months have meant different things to different people and operations. Numbers, though, have a way of providing mean- ing – sometimes way off from what we perceived and other times right on track with expectations. The Springfield Business Jour- nal newsroom culled several criti- cal data sets from key segments – financial, public health, munici- pal and public schools – where COVID-19 presented significant challenges and concerns. Not all the numbers were as bad as feared. Some are hard to stomach. Others show progression. Numbers also help us to create vision and take steps toward improvement. That’s our newsroom’s hope – that this look back gives us remembrance of the past as we plan for the future. This is the year of COVID in numbers. —Eric Olson, Editorial Director Meals served at no cost to SPS students since March 2020 SPRINGFIELD BUSINESS JOURNAL · 15