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Local COVID-19 updates
Dec. 14th, 2020 05:33 pmTrying something a little different - cut-tagging all the autogenerated text.
( Wall-o-text cut - worst. Monday. ever. )
Day-by-day changes certainly look nice, with deaths and cases down. But it's Monday, and weekend data reporting is notoriously spotty. In fact, today is by far the worst Monday of the pandemic as far as newly reported cases go - beating last Monday's 2,463 new cases, which had been the worst Monday of the pandemic. Meanwhile, of course, positivity is up again, the estimated active case count continues its inexorable upward climb, and all the hospitalization counts are up.
We're still waiting for Governor Baker to take something vaguely resembling effective action to deal with this surge. On the other hand, the mayors of Boston, Somerville, Brockton and Newton aren't waiting on Baker any longer, and announced today that they are all rolling back reopenings for the next three weeks:
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I certainly hope that will make a significant difference. I'm a bit skeptical, though, given that indoor dining is still allowed, and that's the single biggest risk that I can think of at this point that's not already addressed.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 65 active and 423 cumulative cases as of December 13. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 4PM on December 8 reported 389 cumulative cases with 60 individuals in isolation, 307 persons recovered and 22 fatalities.
( Wall-o-text cut - worst. Monday. ever. )
Day-by-day changes certainly look nice, with deaths and cases down. But it's Monday, and weekend data reporting is notoriously spotty. In fact, today is by far the worst Monday of the pandemic as far as newly reported cases go - beating last Monday's 2,463 new cases, which had been the worst Monday of the pandemic. Meanwhile, of course, positivity is up again, the estimated active case count continues its inexorable upward climb, and all the hospitalization counts are up.
We're still waiting for Governor Baker to take something vaguely resembling effective action to deal with this surge. On the other hand, the mayors of Boston, Somerville, Brockton and Newton aren't waiting on Baker any longer, and announced today that they are all rolling back reopenings for the next three weeks:
( Read more... )
I certainly hope that will make a significant difference. I'm a bit skeptical, though, given that indoor dining is still allowed, and that's the single biggest risk that I can think of at this point that's not already addressed.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 65 active and 423 cumulative cases as of December 13. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 4PM on December 8 reported 389 cumulative cases with 60 individuals in isolation, 307 persons recovered and 22 fatalities.