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Local COVID-19 updates
Dec. 19th, 2020 05:35 pm( Wall-o-text )
Day-to-day, these look like significant improvements - deaths, cases and positivity all down, and even the estimated active cases count is only up a tad. However, the number of newly reported tests is also down a lot, possibly due to our recent snowstorm either shutting down the big drive-through test sites or making them much harder for folks to get to. In either event, the number of COVID-19 patients in hospital keeps going up, and that's not good news at all.
In much better news, the FDA has approved an emergency use authorization for the Moderna vaccine:
( Read more... )
Meanwhile, the Boston Globe posted a nice explanation of just why indoor dining can be so effective at spreading the coronavirus:
( Read more... )
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 69 active and 463 cumulative cases as of December 18. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 9PM on December 15 reported 433 cumulative cases with 63 individuals in isolation, 345 persons recovered and 25 fatalities.
Day-to-day, these look like significant improvements - deaths, cases and positivity all down, and even the estimated active cases count is only up a tad. However, the number of newly reported tests is also down a lot, possibly due to our recent snowstorm either shutting down the big drive-through test sites or making them much harder for folks to get to. In either event, the number of COVID-19 patients in hospital keeps going up, and that's not good news at all.
In much better news, the FDA has approved an emergency use authorization for the Moderna vaccine:
( Read more... )
Meanwhile, the Boston Globe posted a nice explanation of just why indoor dining can be so effective at spreading the coronavirus:
( Read more... )
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 69 active and 463 cumulative cases as of December 18. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 9PM on December 15 reported 433 cumulative cases with 63 individuals in isolation, 345 persons recovered and 25 fatalities.