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Local COVID-19 updates
Nov. 19th, 2020 05:40 pm( Huge wall-o-text cut to save your reading page. Contains depressing updates. )
FUUUUCK.
The day-to-day changes aren't that bad - deaths, cases and positivity are all down compared to yesterday. But all those levels are still waaay too high, and all the hospitalization numbers went up.
And the weekly report is just plain horrible. Even after magically changing the risk color code definitions a couple of weeks ago, the number of cities and towns climbing into the red is scary - from thirty last week to sixty-two this week. My own town of Acton moved up to yellow for the first time, with a daily incidence rate greater than 10.0 cases/100k but a positivity rate less than 5%.
The town of Acton has yet to post an update today, but did post one last night. As of the most recent report at 9:15PM on November 18, the town of Acton reported 275 cumulative cases of COVID-19 in town with 23 individuals in isolation, 231 recovered and 21 fatalities; that's nineteen more cases, the same number of individuals in isolation, and nineteen more persons recovered compared to the previous report on November 10. That case rate is climbing, which is bad; on the other hand, at least so far the recovery rate is keeping pace.
FUUUUCK.
The day-to-day changes aren't that bad - deaths, cases and positivity are all down compared to yesterday. But all those levels are still waaay too high, and all the hospitalization numbers went up.
And the weekly report is just plain horrible. Even after magically changing the risk color code definitions a couple of weeks ago, the number of cities and towns climbing into the red is scary - from thirty last week to sixty-two this week. My own town of Acton moved up to yellow for the first time, with a daily incidence rate greater than 10.0 cases/100k but a positivity rate less than 5%.
The town of Acton has yet to post an update today, but did post one last night. As of the most recent report at 9:15PM on November 18, the town of Acton reported 275 cumulative cases of COVID-19 in town with 23 individuals in isolation, 231 recovered and 21 fatalities; that's nineteen more cases, the same number of individuals in isolation, and nineteen more persons recovered compared to the previous report on November 10. That case rate is climbing, which is bad; on the other hand, at least so far the recovery rate is keeping pace.